Category: children

Eating Disorders Bulletin

from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

We hope this helps to keep you up to date with current awareness in this area of clinical work. Some articles are freely accessible, others require access to Open Athens.

The research team are also recruiting participants for the EDGI (Eating Disorders Genetic Initiative) study, open to people in the UK, above 16, who has experienced an eating disorder. You can register using the QR code in the attached recruitment leaflet.

For any further support regarding evidence-based practice, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

ED Bulletin Sep 2026 .pdfDownload
EDGI Recruitment Leaflet General V1.0 03102023Download

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State of Child Health 2026.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); 2026.

[In 2026 children’s health is in decline. Across nearly all major measures, outcomes have worsened or stagnated across the UK, reversing years of progress, and the impact is felt most sharply in deprived areas and among ethnic minority communities.]
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Supporting young people to transition into adolescent and adult services.

NHS England; 2026.

[This guidance supports services to provide developmentally appropriate care for 0 to 25-year-olds. It sets out proposed actions for integrated care boards, providers and clinical teams to enable safe and effective transition between services. If adopted by systems, this approach will improve continuity of care, health outcomes and young people’s experience.]
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Minimum standards for keyworking services for autistic children and young people and children and young people with a learning disability.

NHS England; 2026.

[These minimum standards support integrated care boards (ICBs) as they commission keyworking services for autistic children and young people and children and young people with a learning disability who are at risk of an inpatient mental health hospital admission or who are currently in an inpatient setting.]
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Eating Disorder Bulletin

from the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Trust

Welcome to the August edition of the Eating Disorder Bulletin. Please be aware that some links may require an Open Athens account to access, see the bottom of this page for more details on getting one.

Eating Disorder Bulletin – August 2026 .pdfDownload

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Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) evidence-based bulletin

from the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

We hope this helps to keep you up to date with current awareness within your department. Please feel free to share and disseminate with colleagues. Some evidence is freely available, others require an Open Athens account to access. Please get in touch with the Library team should you need any support accessing the material.

CYMPH Evidence based bulletin August 2026Download

You can also find the link to this bulletin here: CYMPH Evidence based bulletin August 2026

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Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Services: 2024-25.

The Children’s Commissioner; 2026.

Fifth and final report into children’s mental health services looking at the journeys children take through mental health services in England, and how that differs depending on what they were referred for, their age, gender, ethnic background and the area-level deprivation where they live.

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The New Childhood: Mental Health in a Connected Age. A focus on children aged 13 and under.

Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) and Mental Health Innovation (MHI); 2026.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/the-new-childhood/
[This new report from the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) and Mental Health Innovations (MHI) identifies key ways to better understand the mental health of children aged 13 and younger, and outlines how to improve the support they receive. It features insights from children, captured through the Middle Years Project, and an analysis of how this age group uses Shout, MHI’s free, confidential, 24/7 text support service.]
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 CYMPH Evidence based bulletin June 2026

Here is the Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) evidence-based bulletin. We hope this helps to keep you up to date with current awareness within your department. Please feel free to share and disseminate with colleagues. Some evidence is freely available, others require an Open Athens account to access. Please get in touch with the Library team should you need any support accessing the material.

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Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) evidence-based bulletin

CYMPH Evidence based bulletin July 2026Download

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