Emotional Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People in South Tyneside
High level priorities
There is a requirement of the Children and Young People Mental Health & Wellbeing Alliance (see governance section), that the Local Transformation Plan (also known as the Place-Based Children and Young People Strategic Plan) is refreshed annually. The Alliance agreed the following priorities which have been shared across the ICB and align with those of the Health & Wellbeing Strategy.
1. Reduce Health Inequalities; ensure we align mental health plans with SEND; autism; health; youth justice and unaccompanied migrants and looked after children.
2. Develop the workforce - to include progression; diversity and retention.
3. Define 0-25 mental health offer and embed All Age Neighbourhood model - to include meeting NHS wait time directives.
4. Improve communication, including the use of technology.
5. Transparency - use of digital data tools to measure impact and drive service improvement and interdependencies.
Core20PLUS5 is a national NHS England and NHS Improvement approach to support the reduction of health inequalities. The approach defines a target population cohort - the 'Core20PLUS' - and identifies '5' focus clinical areas requiring accelerated improvement to reduce health inequalities.
The 5 clinical areas are:
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Epilepsy
- Oral health
- Mental health