EBPU Research Projects
Child Policy Research Unit
This unit commissioned by DH launched in January 2011. Its role is to provide advice to policy makers to help ensure evidence based policy making in relation to child health generally. The EBPU leads the mental health strand of work within this unit. The unit is led by Professor Terence Stephenson and includes colleagues across the Institute for Child Health and allied organisations.
Increasing Access Psychological Therapy IAPT
The EBPU is part of the expert reference group for the IAPT initiative and has been asked to lead the group looking at best means of evaluation and data collection for this imitative.Please go to the IAPT website for more information.
Payment by Results (PbR)
This project is looking at how children with emotional, behavioural and wider difficulties are being supported and how much these kinds of support might cost so that the right amount of funding is provided for children with such problems. CAMHS EBPU is one of the partner agencies (along with the Tavistock and South London and Maudsley Trust) to provide a project team to develop ideas as to the best way to take forward PbR in CAMHS. PbR involves developing systems for categorising CAMHS processes and outcomes to aid the development of payment systems.
TAMHS – Targeted Mental Health in Schools Report
This 3 years project was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now Department for Education) to investigate the impact of a government initiative to improve mental health in schools and to examine the ways schools try to help children when they feel sad, worried and troubled. The final report is now on the DfE website.
