Measures include the creation of a 24/7 crisis helpline, earlier diagnosis and support through community-based teams, and development of a seamless 0-25 service that removes the barriers between the child and adult systems (see Analysis).
The plan follows 2017's Children's Mental Health green paper, which included measures to create new school-based mental health services, and comes as clinical commissioning groups are still implementing reforms introduced under the 2015 Future in Mind cross-government child mental health strategy.
A timely reminder on the scale of the task came last month with the publication of a Commons public accounts committee report. It concludes there is not the "actions, budgets nor measurable targets" to deliver Future in Mind, just a number of disparate largely NHS-led work programmes.
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