Mental Health, Learning Disability & Autism Partnership
In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, nearly 5,000 people are GP registered as having a learning disability. At the same time, approximately 6,700 people are known to be living with a severe mental illness, and thousands more people will have some type of mental health need in any one year.
Making mental health everybody's business
Our Mental Health, Learning Disability & Autism Partnership is made up of partners across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough working together to improve care for people living with mental illness or mental health issues, and people who have learning disabilities.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) is the team captain of the Mental Health, Learning Disability & Autism Partnership, and as team captain they are responsible for bringing together our local people, volunteers, and service providers to make it easy for you to access the services you need.
In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, nearly 5,000 people are GP registered as having a learning disability. At the same time, approximately 6,700 people are known to be living with a severe mental illness, and thousands more people will have some type of mental health need in any one year.
Across the area, GP practices, Mental Health specialist providers, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations, Acute Hospital Trusts, and Local Authorities all work together to provide care and support to people living with a mental health illness or issue, as well as to people with learning disabilities. All of these organisations form part of, and contribute to, the Mental Health, Learning Disability & Autism Partnership.
The Mental Health, Learning Disability & Autism Partnership will develop a clear all age system-wide ICS Mental Health and Learning Disability strategy for everyone who needs mental health or learning disability support. This strategy will ensure that Mental Health and Learning Disabilities feature throughout the ICS by making mental health everybody’s business. It will also enable us to improve the experience of service users and their carers by promoting shared decision making and personalised care to ensure better mental and physical health outcomes.
Alongside this strategy, the Partnership are improving the development of the Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism workforce by creating new roles and opportunities to grow and strengthen our workforce. The Partnership is committed to improving how people find out about the services, support and resources they need and will continue to implement best practice and carry out further research to improve mental health and social care provision across the system.
Together these activities will help the Partnership to redesign (which means change the way people interact and use services) and improve mental health and learning disability services throughout the area by making mental health everybody’s business.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough children and young people's mental health strategy 2022-2025
There are at least 34,400 children and young people with mental health problems in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and rates of mental ill health continue to grow in this population.
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough children and young people’s strategy has been developed by children and young people and their families and carers with professionals from a wide range of local partners from across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System.
The strategy 0-25 years is for children and young people who have an identified mental health need. The strategy details the priorities for 2022-2025 and sets out the vision, key priorities and next steps for children and young people’s mental health.
Keep up to date:
If you would like to receive regular updates on the progress and latest developments of the children and young people’s strategy, email cpicb.cypmh@nhs.net
Here are the associated documents for you to to read:
- Executive Summary CYP Mental Health Strategy
- Easy Read CYP Mental Health Strategy
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s children and young people’s mental health strategy 2022 – 2025
Year 1 Update:
CYP MH supporting documents
Here are the associated and supporting documents detailed in the Children and Young People's Mental Health Strategy.
Local Transformation Plan 2021
Health & Wellbring Integrated Care Strategy Priority Chapter Four
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough All Age Autism Strategy 2021 – 2026
Children and Young People's Mental Health Newsletters
Children and Young People's Mental Health Newsletter - Edition 11 - June 2024
Children and Young People's Mental Health Newsletter - Edition 10 - April 2024
Children and Young People's Mental Health Newsletter - Edition 9 - February 2024
Children and Young People's Mental Health Newsletter - Edition 8 - Winter 2023
Children and Young People's Mental Health Newsletter - Edition 7- Autumn 2023
MH&LDA Inpatient Quality Transformation Plan 2024-2027
In 2022, a new national Mental Health, Learning Disability, and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme was launched. This programme wants to make mental health hospital services better for people and every area has been expected to produce a 3 year plan setting out how they will improve services locally.
This document is our plan. We will be working with service providers, people with lived experience and other partners to take the actions set out in the plan. We will share regular updates on the progress we are making.