The Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition, which launched last week, is embarking on an ambitious programme to tackle the areas in children and adolescent mental health that it feels have been overlooked.
According to the group of 15 organisations, despite government efforts over the past decade, mental health services for children and young people remain patchy.
They are now calling for a comprehensive focus on mental health services ranging from the early years through to young people's transition into adulthood.
Chairman of the coalition and chief executive of charity YoungMinds Sarah Brennan says: "In the past 10 years there have been a lot of high level policy decisions made about mental health services for young people. The right things are being said but it's just not being translated into the services on offer."
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