Child and family mental health: Joint Strategic Board

Overview

The new Joint Strategic Board for Child and Family Mental Health (JSB), co-chaired by COSLA and the Scottish Government, was created in November 2023 to advise and support progress towards the Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy vision across children and family policy.

It will bring together the work of the previous Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board (PNIMH-PB) and Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Joint Delivery Board (JDB), recognising the ongoing need to support infants, children, young people and families with their mental health and wellbeing.

The board will have a strategic overview of mental health work spanning preconception, the perinatal period, parent-infant relationships, early years (up to five), children and young people (5-24 year olds or 26 years for care leavers), their families and carers. There will be a particular focus on addressing crisis, prevention, support for early years and children and families in vulnerable situations. 

Related groups

• Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board
• Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Joint Delivery Board

Members

• COSLA
• Scottish Government
• Public Health Scotland
• Perinatal Mental Health Network Scotland
• Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland 
• NSPCC Scotland
• NHS Education Scotland
• Centre for Research in Education, Inclusion and Diversity
• Suicide Prevention Scotland 
• Royal College of Psychiatrists (Perinatal Psychiatry Faculty and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty)
• Coalition of Care and Support Providers 
• National Parent Forum of Scotland 
• Association of Directors of Education in Scotland (ADES)
• Scottish Youth Parliament
• Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE)
• Children in Scotland
• Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists (ASPEP)
• Royal College of Midwives
• Police Scotland
• Education Scotland 
• NHS24
• Social Work Scotland
• Neurodiversity and CAMHS Leads 
• Heads of Psychology (Scotland) (HOPS) 
• Who Cares? Scotland 
• The Promise Scotland
• NHS boards
• Allied Health Professionals

Publications

Child and family mental health: Joint Strategic Board - terms of reference