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
Community mental health transformation phase 2
Community Mental Health Transformation Phase 2 – Engagement ReportThe Community Mental Health Transformation Programme is a national programme aiming to make community services better and more accessible for people with mental health conditions. The city of Leeds first started work on this programme in 2021 where we spoke to people in central Leeds for the Community Mental Health Transformation Phase … Read More
Healthwatch Insight Report on Mental Health Services
People’s experience of mental health support in West YorkshireLocal Healthwatch across West Yorkshire are working together to share people’s experiences of health and care services at a West Yorkshire level. This is to ensure that people’s voices are at the heart of shaping these services.Back to reports…West Yorkshire Insight Report – The public’s experience of mental health support in West … Read More
West Yorkshire SOAG reports
West Yorkshire reportsThis page is an archive of all of the local West Yorkshire Healthwatch reports that were presented to the System Oversight and Assurance Group (SOAG). SOAG is a senior decision-making board of leaders at a West Yorkshire Level. Local Healthwatch (Bradford District and Craven, Leeds, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield District) used these reports to share their insight based … Read More
Community Mental Health Transformation
Community Mental Health Transformation – Engagement ReportThis engagement work was carried out to support The Community Mental Health Transformation Programme as it is being developed in Leeds. This new way of providing mental health support is being piloted in three areas of Leeds. A central part of the new approach is that people with lived experience and carers should be … 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
Mental Health Briefing
Mental health has long been one of Healthwatch Leeds’ key focuses, so when the country went into lockdown in March 2020, it seemed even more important than ever to keep hearing people’s views on how the crisis was affecting their wellbeing and the kind of support they would like to get.
Mental Health Crisis in Leeds
This work was carried out between January and March 2019 to find out what it is like to have a mental health crisis in Leeds. We wanted to find out if people knew where to go for help and support and how that support was once they had accessed it.
Maternity and Mental Services in Leeds
As part of this Healthwatch Leeds was commissioned by Healthwatch England to carry out some focused work around maternity and mental health. The project comprised of an online and face to face survey and focus groups targeted at parents with experience of mental ill health before, during and/or after pregnancy. It also involved an Enter and View visit to the Yorkshire and Humber Mother and baby unit which provides inpatient support for mothers experiencing severe mental health difficulties.
Changes to Older People’s Mental Health
Healthwatch Leeds wanted to speak to older people using community mental health services to get their views on the proposed changes.
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