The Better Sleep Programme

This is a six-month scoping exercise to develop a business case and plan of work for a wider project. The wider project aims to roll-out training and supervision in sleep interventions in order to improve access to effective help for young people in this area (aged 14 to 25) with mental health difficulties, as well as to support and promote further clinical research.

The focus is on making it easier for young people to access help for sleep difficulties across the wider health and social care system, spanning prevention and early intervention, community support and urgent and emergency care (including CYP crisis provision) and incorporating NSFT, primary care, social care and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) services.

The aim is also to increase awareness of the importance of sleep in young people’s mental health and to make it easier for professionals, young people and their families to access appropriate resources and online support where this is already available.

It is hoped that the wider project will help improve understanding of this under-researched area by providing a platform to host additional research projects as well as reporting on the clinical outcomes of the intervention itself.