What next?
In recent years, funding for early intervention services has seen a dramatic cut – between 2010/11 and 2015/16 there has been a 40% decrease in local authority spending on early intervention – yet these findings highlight just how important early intervention is in the prevention of later mental ill health.
Schools have an important role to play rcs data malaysia in the promotion of mental health and well-being for children and young people. Paper on transforming children and young people’s mental health provision proposes that every school and college will have a mental health lead. It is important that these mental leads are trained to spot and act on problems like those highlighted in this research.
Although not a focus of this analysis, there is evidence that many adult mental health problems begin in childhood or adolescence, and emerging evidence that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may have negative impacts on future mental health and well-being outcomes. The Government has in its Green Paper on Mental Health recognised the impact of ACEs and Barnardo’s is calling for an ACEs/trauma informed approach to inform the training of staff in universal services such as schools and specialist services including the proposal for mental health support teams.