The programme will be led by the Bond Consortium, made up of national organisations and individuals concerned with mental health and led by mental health charity YoungMinds, and is designed to build the capacity of voluntary and community sector organisations to deliver early intervention mental health support to children.
It is part of a larger Department of Health £32m scheme to enable children from five to- 16-years-old to benefit from successful adult mental health therapies, such as talking therapies. Successful parts of the adult programme will be adapted to use with children and young people.
More than 2,000 schools, 500 voluntary community sector organisations (VCSOs) and 100 commissioning NHS and local authority organisations will be involved in the Bond Consortium programme to indentify barriers and develop sustainable solutions to increase early intervention mental health support for children in the voluntary community sector.
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