Inter-agency collaboration to support children with mental health needs

有情绪和心理健康需要的儿童很难得到帮助，特别是当他们没有被诊断为精神疾病，但仍然有情绪或行为问题的时候。这项研究将集中在威尔士的一个机构间合作的例子上，以便更早地向格温特地区的儿童空间福祉小组提供帮助。其目的是了解这种合作是如何运作的，以及从他们的操作中可以学到什么教训。鉴于直接参与了对有情绪和心理健康需求的儿童及其家人以及一些NHS工作人员的研究，这项研究可能需要通过NHS研究伦理程序进行伦理批准，尽管一旦学生的项目得到更明确的定义，适当的批准途径将需要得到确认。如果不是NHS的研究伦理程序，这项研究将需要得到社会科学学院研究伦理委员会的伦理批准。

The difficulty of getting help for children with emotional and mental health needs is well recognised, especially where they do not have diagnosed mental illness but nonetheless have emotional or behavioural problems. The research will focus on one Welsh example of inter-agency collaboration to provide earlier help to children - SPACE well-being panels in the Gwent region. The aim is to understand how this collaboration works and what lessons can be learned from their operation.Given the direct involvement in the research of children with emotional and mental health needs and their families, as well as some NHS staff, the research may require ethical approval through the NHS research ethics process, although the appropriate route for approval will need to be confirmed once the student's project is more defined. If not the NHS research ethics process, the study would need ethical approval from the School of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee.