Mhemooda Malek, researcher at health inequality charity the Afiya Trust, told CYP Now that mainstream wellbeing schemes such as the Healthy Child Programme and Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning fail to properly consider issues of race and diversity.
Ethnic minority children and young people are under-represented in child and adolescent mental health services, she explained.
But the latest statistics from the Count Me In mental health census show that one of the most significant trends since the census began in 2005 is the over-representation of black and minority ethnic people in detention under the Mental Health Act.
This, Malek said, is proof that early intervention services are not working for black and minority ethnic (BME) families.
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