The Taskforce is working with a wide range of stakeholders and partners on initiatives that support its goal to make rapid improvements in care. This page provides a summary of the resources that have been produced to date.

Our work is focused on five key areas:

1. People: staff are well trained and supported to deliver high quality inpatient services through person-centred, multi-disciplinary teams.
2. Care management: to ensure the delivery of evidence-based, person-centred care, informed by the views of children and young people and their families/carers.
3. Quality assurance: establish robust ways in which we can detect, monitor and assure quality and patient safety in services for children and young people.
4. Environment: children and young people should be treated in an environment that is appropriate to their needs.
5. Restrictive practices: to reduce the use and reliance upon all restrictive practices, ensuring the child’s rights are protected and best practice is always followed.

Resources and guidance

Cross-cutting

• Themed review on experience of children and young people care for in mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient settings – National Institute for Health Research.

People

• Multidisciplinary competence framework for staff working in children and young people’s inpatient mental health services – Health Education England.
• Specialist Autism training for all staff working in in-patient mental health, learning disability and autism services for children and young people – Maudsley Learning.

Environment

• “It’s Not Rocket Science” – Guidance on changes that providers of CAMHS inpatient services can make to improve the sensory environment – National Development Team for Inclusion.

Restrictive practices

• Toolkit and resources on the use of blanket restriction – part of this project has been to usefully define this restrictive practice, and it includes guidance for practice leaders and senior leaders – Restraint Reduction Network.
• Post incident debriefing and supporting toolkit –  guidance to help people in health care settings, and the staff that support them, to recover and learn from a crisis, reducing restrictive practices.
• Implementing Safewards on Children and Young People’s Mental Health Wards to reduce restrictive practices – King’s College London