The charity has received three-year funding from the Department of Health under its Section 64 grant scheme to run the participation project. It will employ a youth development officer to recruit the teenagers who will make up the panel, said chief executive Barbara Herts, although many young people will already be working with YoungMinds.
The youth panel will meet organisations and people such as the mental health tsar and the Royal College of Psychiatrists and will work with local children's mental health partnerships to improve their practices and levels of youth participation. The young people will also work with the UK's four children's commissioners.
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