Children, young people and families

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1. ‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her (The Guardian, 8 November 2025)

   • Mental health
   • Patient / family involvement
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Mental health
     • Patient / family involvement
     • Patient / family support
     • Patient death
     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Organisation / service factors

   By Patient Safety Learning, 11 November, 2025

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   • 11 November, 2025

2. Children with eating disorders: a patient safety focus (by Hope Virgo)

   • Children and Young People
   • Eating disorder
   • (and 2 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Children and Young People
     • Eating disorder
     • Mental health
     • WPSD25

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 9 June, 2025

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   • 9 June, 2025

3. Designing paediatric wards to support mental health (20 May 2025, Saskia Fursland)

   • Paediatrics
   • Mental health
   • (and 3 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Paediatrics
     • Mental health
     • Health and safety
     • Physical environment
     • WPSD25

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 21 May, 2025

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   • 21 May, 2025

4. Children's Commissioner: Children’s mental health services 2023-24 (May 2025)

   • Mental health - CAMHS
   • Mental health
   • (and 8 more)

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     • Mental health - CAMHS
     • Mental health
     • Children and Young People
     • Lack of resources
     • Organisation / service factors
     • ADHD
     • Autism
     • Accessibility
     • Health inequalities
     • Long waiting list

   By Patient Safety Learning, 20 May, 2025

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   • 20 May, 2025

5. A call for change: Tackling inequalities in access to mental health support for children with social work involvement and those living in poverty (15 August 2024)

   • Children and Young People
   • Mental health - CAMHS
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Children and Young People
     • Mental health - CAMHS
     • Mental health
     • Social Care
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities

   By Patient Safety Learning, 30 August, 2024

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   • 30 August, 2024

6. Children’s Commissioner: Children’s Mental Health Services 2021-22 (8 March 2023)

   • Mental health
   • Children and Young People
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Children and Young People
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Lack of resources
     • Long waiting list
     • Mental health unit

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 March, 2023

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   • 8 March, 2023

7. Children and young people's mental health in 2022: What does the data tell us? (Centre for Mental Health, 5 December 2022)

   • Mental health
   • Mental health - CAMHS
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Mental health - CAMHS
     • Children and Young People
     • Data
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities
     • Deprivation
     • School / university

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 March, 2023

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   • 7 March, 2023

8. Away from hospital and into the community: A research report into alternative options for young people’s mental health crisis care (18 January 2023)

   • Children and Young People
   • Adolescent
   • (and 13 more)

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     • Children and Young People
     • Adolescent
     • Mental health
     • Mental health - CAMHS
     • Lack of resources
     • Community care
     • Patient / family support
     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Depression
     • Anxiety
     • Substance / Drug abuse
     • Eating disorder
     • Psychosis
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Long waiting list

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 January, 2023

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   • 1,527 views
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   • 18 January, 2023

9. Young lives are being destroyed by a lack of mental health support (The Guardian, 8 November 2022)

   • Mental health
   • Patient / family support
   • (and 6 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Mental health
     • Patient / family support
     • Patient / family involvement
     • Patient suffering
     • Children and Young People
     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Mental health - CAMHS
     • Lack of resources

   By Patient Safety Learning, 11 November, 2022

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   • 11 November, 2022

10. Parent-Infant Foundation: Infant mental health briefing for commissioners (23 May 2021)

    • Baby
    • Children and Young People
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Baby
      • Children and Young People
      • Mental health
      • Pandemic
      • Commisioning

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 5 September, 2022

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    • 1,110 views
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    • 5 September, 2022

11. No Wrong Door - rethinking care for adolescents (November 2016)

    • Children and Young People
    • Young Adult
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Children and Young People
      • Young Adult
      • Innovation
      • Process redesign
      • Social care
      • England
      • Collaboration

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 27 June, 2022

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    • 831 views
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    • 27 June, 2022

12. Components of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people in institutional settings: the Contrast systematic mapping review (May 2022)

    • Mental health
    • Mental health - CAMHS
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Mental health
      • Mental health - CAMHS
      • Children and Young People
      • Safety culture
      • Learning disabilities
      • Organisational learning
      • Restrictive practice

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 May, 2022

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    • 17 May, 2022

13. The Health Foundation blog - Context matters: what’s needed for young people’s mental health? (9 May 2022)

    • Mental health - CAMHS
    • Mental health
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Mental health - CAMHS
      • Mental health
      • Health inequalities
      • Children and Young People

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 12 May, 2022

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    • 12 May, 2022

14. Blog - Threats to epistemic agency for young people (19 April 2022)

    • Mental health - CAMHS
    • Mental health
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Mental health - CAMHS
      • Mental health
      • Communication
      • Patient engagement
      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 21 April, 2022

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    • 21 April, 2022

15. Children’s Commissioner for England. Children’s mental health services 2020-21 (February 2022)

    • Children and Young People
    • Mental health
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Children and Young People
      • Mental health
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Long waiting list

    By Patient Safety Learning, 8 February, 2022

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    • 8 February, 2022

16. Visiting your General Practitioner: A guide for young people with lived experience of self-harm and suicidality (10 September 2021)

    • GP
    • Primary care
    • (and 3 more)

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      • GP
      • Primary care
      • Mental health - CAMHS
      • Children and Young People
      • Communication

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 January, 2022

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    • 7 January, 2022

17. Children and young people’s mental health: Health and Social Care Committee report (9 December 2021)

    • Mental health
    • Children and Young People
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Children and Young People
      • Recommendations

    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 December, 2021

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    • 13 December, 2021

18. Are we listening? A review of children and young people’s mental health services (6 August 2019)

    • Mental health
    • Mental health - CAMHS
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Mental health
      • Mental health - CAMHS
      • Health Disparities
      • Health inequalities
      • Organisation / service factors

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 8 December, 2021

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    • 8 December, 2021

19. What metrics of harm are being captured in clinical trials involving talking treatments for young people? A systematic review of registered studies on the ISRCTN (4 May 2021)

    • Children and Young People
    • Mental health
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Children and Young People
      • Mental health
      • Data
      • Clinical trial
      • Treatment

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 May, 2021

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    • 4 May, 2021

20. Looking after a child or young person's mental health

    • Mental health
    • Children and Young People
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Mental health
      • Children and Young People
      • Patient / family support

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 February, 2021

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    • 2 February, 2021

21. CQC: Children and young people mental health review – update on local actions (October 2020)

    • Children and Young People
    • Mental health
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Children and Young People
      • Mental health
      • Mental health - CAMHS

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 30 October, 2020

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    • 30 October, 2020

22. Racial disparities in postnatal mental health: An interview with Sandra Igwe the Founder of The Motherhood Group

    • Health inequalities
    • Mental health
    • (and 7 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Health inequalities
      • Mental health
      • Baby
      • Maternity
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Out-patient midwifery services
      • Racism
      • Unconscious bias
      • Ethnicity

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 29 June, 2020

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    • 4,385 views
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    • 29 June, 2020

23. Young Minds: Coronavirus and mental health

    • Virus
    • Secondary impact
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Virus
      • Secondary impact
      • Pandemic
      • Mental health
      • Children and Young People
      • Young Adult

    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 May, 2020

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    • 1,603 views
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    • 16 May, 2020

24. Re-ACT – the Respond to Ailing Children Tool (March 2015)

    • Paediatrics
    • Children and Young People
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Paediatrics
      • Children and Young People
      • Patient harmed
      • Patient / family involvement
      • Patient engagement

    By Claire Cox, 17 November, 2019

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    • 17 November, 2019

25. Developing safe care in mental health for children and young people: drawing on UK experience for solutions to an under-recognised problem (October 2015)

    • Service user
    • Children and Young People
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Service user
      • Children and Young People
      • Mental health
      • Longitudinal study

    By Claire Cox, 17 November, 2019

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    • 1,098 views
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    • 17 November, 2019