Taskforce needs to find ways to reinvest in children’s mental health, says Centre’s Chief Executive
The Government’s ‘taskforce’ into children and young people’s mental health must focus on how to bring about a significant shift in resources to invest in early intervention and address shockingly high levels of unmet need.
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Wanting the best for my children
Wanting the best for my children looks at the experiences of parents and how systems might work better to support families managing early behavioural difficulties.
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Building a better future
Parenting programmes more than pay for themselves through future savings in public spending, spread across a range of budgets including education, health, social care and criminal justice.
Type: Publication
Childhood behavioural problems: briefings for professionals
These briefings set out what childhood behavioural problems are, how to recognise the signs, what can be done, how to engage parents and the referral process.
Type: Publication
A chance to change
Parenting interventions can dramatically improve children’s futures but they must be made widely available, delivered well and targeted at the children who need them most, according to a report from Centre for Mental Health.
Type: Publication
The chance of a lifetime
A very high proportion of those who have the most serious conduct problems during childhood will go on to become involved in criminal activity.
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Childhood mental health and life chances in post-war Britain
Mental health problems in children and teenagers have a significant impact on their chances of success in employment and later life generally.
Type: Publication
Feeling good: promoting children’s mental health
These activity sheets provide parents and their children aged 4 to 7 with a unique resource to help them talk about how they feel and what makes them happy or sad, stressed or secure.
Type: Publication