CYP Mental Health Services - Addressing Health Inequalities

Dear all,

We are part of a team made up of Commissioners, and Service providers who are looking at the wellbeing and mental health support available for children and young people in Herts. As professionals working with Children and Young People in Hertfordshire, we need your help to work together to reduce health inequalities and improve access for all.

We are working with our system partners to gather on the ground experiences, to understand who is accessing and more importantly who is not accessing Hertfordshire Children and Young Peoples Mental Health services and what we can collectively do to improve this. We have complied a survey and would appreciate your valued input.

The survey can be found here: Link to Professionals Survey    Deadline Date 30th September 2024

We understand that this is a quite detailed survey, but a thorough analysis is required to enable us to fully understand the barriers that certain groups face accessing emotional wellbeing and mental health support.  And then put actions into place to reduce health inequalities and increase access.

Further to this we are looking for CYP to form a focus group to discuss issues around health inequalities and mental health services.  If there are any CYP who are willing to be nominated, please can you send in their name and email contact details.  We are looking to have representation from as many different demographics and they do not need to be current or previous service users. Please email Sarah.Chandler1@hertfordshire.gov.uk for more info.