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BOND - Better Outcomes New Delivery
The Government’s new Mental Health Strategy emphasises the crucial importance of early intervention in emerging emotional and mental health problems for children and young people. Early intervention has been shown to achieve improved outcomes for children, families and wider society such as increased learning and educational attainment, better physical health, improved long-term mental health and reduced health and social care costs. Finding appropriate help when experiencing emotional distress or mental health problems can be very confusing and intimidating. Voluntary and community organisations (VCSOs) have an important role to play in providing effective, high quality early intervention services as they are local, flexible, trusted, informal and friendly. To provide a vital resource for schools, local authorities and the NHS and as part of the Government’s policy on local determination of priorities, a strengthened voice for service users and the increased role of the VCS, the Department of Education is supporting a two-year sector-led programme which will build the capacity of VCSOs to deliver early intervention mental health support to children and young people called BOND – Better Outcomes, New Delivery. BOND will support the standard and range of early intervention delivery and the purchasing/commissioning processes. This will expand choice and provision of timely and efficient mental health services for children and young people throughout the sector.
Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services CE4O
C4EO aims to help those working in children’s services improve the life chances of all children and young people, in particular those who are most vulnerable.
