Year: 2017 Source: London, UK: Education Policy Institute, 2016. 47 p. SIEC No: 20170462

Our research finds that the process of implementing Future in Mind has led to some positive changes, including:
Every area of the country has developed a plan, shining a spotlight on children and young people’s mental health and ensuring that all areas have become more aware of the gaps in provision in their locality;
Local health and care leaders have been working together to coordinate the design of new services;
The process has delivered some much needed transparency to the system, with local plans including service level information that had previously not been available at a national level;
Data is now beginning to be gathered nationally to inform service improvement;
Some excellent examples of local transformation plans, set out in detail in Chapter One of this report.