{"id":8044,"date":"2022-05-16T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2022-05-16T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:54:58","slug":"16-05-22-transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-implementation-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/16-05-22-transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-implementation-programme","title":{"rendered":"16\/05\/22 – Transforming Children And Young People’s Mental Health Implementation Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The Government announced its intention to introduce a draft Bill to reform the 1983 Mental Health Act in the recent Queen\u2019s Speech list of Bills.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the draft Bill (as we understand it) will have none of the children and young people-centred \u2018early intervention\u2019 measures that characterised the 2017 Green Paper: Transforming Children and Young People\u2019s Mental Health. <\/strong>It is instead, a response to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 by Sir Simon Wessely (a former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists). There are some reforms to the ways in which people are treated in restraint and also improved provision for people with autistic spectrum conditions. \u00a0However, an opportunity to enact legislation to protect children and young people when they first begin to manifest signs of becoming unwell has been missed.<\/p>\n

This month, the Government released a paper entitled: Transforming Children and Young People\u2019s Mental Health Implementation Programme<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Introducing the paper, the Government describes the contents as a \u2018progress report\u2019 on the introduction of \u2018three core proposals\u2019:<\/p>\n