Case studies

The Emotionally Healthy Schools Project is a partnership aiming to promote positive emotional health and wellbeing and develop stronger working relationships with agencies outside of the school environment.

Cornwall’s Scrutiny Commission’s review of child and adolescent mental health services was instrumental in ensuring the development of the subsequent Child and Adolescent Mental Health Strategy for Cornwall.

Embedding meaningful and sustainable involvement of children and young people at every step of the commissioning cycle has helped transform mental health services for young people in Doncaster.

Focusing on the positive difference local resources and people could make to improve mental health outcomes for children and young people proved an invaluable experience and lead to system changes at a strategic and operational level in Hull.

The challenge Healthwatch Hillingdon’s role is to be an independent champion for people, making sure that those running services, put people at the heart.  During a local authority review of child and adolescent mental health services, it seemed that there was a lack of engagement with children and young people.

A new programme enabled 14 Young Commissioners to be equal partners in leading service and culture change for children and young people’s mental health services in Newcastle and Gateshead.

Hull and Wakefield have used PHE’s online SHAPE tool to work out how best to invest money in dental services. SHAPE has allowed officials to map where practices are against areas of high deprivation as a proxy for poor oral health.

Leicestershire’s school nursing service has set up a text messaging service for secondary school pupils. It has helped the service engage hard-to-reach groups with pupils reporting it makes them feel more comfortable discussing sensitive issues.

The Academy was established in June 2014 to bring together recruitment, retention, training and qualifications for the children’s workforce.

In 2015-17, the Healthy London Partnership teamed up with Uscreates to work with three London boroughs (Haringey, Hackney and Tower Hamlets) to research and develop social interventions to address the growing levels of childhood obesity.