11 top tips for children and young people’s mental health servicesToo many young people in Leeds face barriers when accessing mental health support. In 2025, Youthwatch Leeds launched Time2Talk, a project where they visited local drop-in services, including The Children’s Society’s Time for Young People, to explore what helps and what prevents young people from getting the support they need.Back … Read More
Improving Children’s Access to NHS Dental Care
Taking care of your smileIn response to huge issues in trying to find an NHS dentist, we improved access to NHS dentists for children and young people while raising awareness of oral health.Back to reports…Children and young people’s oral health reportPublished 18 March 2025 Written by the Healthwatch team If you would like the report in another format, please contact … Read More
Young women’s mental health event
How to improve young women’s mental health EventOn 5th March 2020, 12 of our brilliant YouthWatch volunteers chaired and facilitated table discussions at this event. Before the event, they had worked with Leeds City Council colleagues to plan and share their ideas for how it would run. It was attended by around 120 people, of whom 51 were young people. … Read More
Emotional Wellbeing in Schools: Feedback about the MindMate Champions Programme
Emotional Wellbeing in Schools: Feedback about the MindMate Champions Programme – November 2018
Planned, carried out and reported with the help YouthWatch volunteers, this project looks at what school staff and students thought about the MindMate Champions programme, a programme designed to improve the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people in schools.
get your rights in health
#getyourrights in Health ReportYouthWatch Leeds co-produced this project to raise awareness about rights in the NHS amongst young people in schools and youth groups. They also asked people to share their own experiences of accessing NHS services.Back to Youthwatch reports…Back to Healthwatch reports…#getyourrights in HealthRead the report and find out what’s important to young people when accessing health and care … Read More
MindMate Single Point of Access (SPA)
Healthwatch Leeds were commissioned by NHS Leeds South and East CCG to engage with young people and parents who had recentlybeen referred via MindMate
Future in Mind
This is a report by YouthWatch Leeds This report looks at overall experiences of services, focus on the changes made as a result of the Future in Mind