Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2023 - wave 4 follow up to the 2017 survey

Firstly, we thank all the children, young people and parents who so generously gave their time to participate in this survey.

Running a national survey relies on the expertise of many people. We thank the professional and committed team based at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), the Office for National Statistics (ONS), NHS England and Cambridge and Exeter universities for all their work on this report.

In ONS, this report would not have taken place without the work of Mike Welsby, Katie Hendry, Will Hunt, Andy Fallows, Matt Short, Jason Riches and Tim Vizard. 

At NatCen we thank the computing department, telephone unit, operations department and data management staff. We would like to specifically thank Alanna Ryder-Dalton, Natasha Gandhi, Pamela Ritchie, Sonia Shirvington and Mari Toomse-Smith for all their work on the survey.

NHS England commissioned the survey series with funding from the Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Education. We are particularly grateful to the Surveys Team: Cher Cartwright, Fiona Daley, Sean Ryan, Karen Shaw and Hena Mohmood; and the Analytical Team: Jane Tocher, Robert Dobson and Guy Butler.

Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado was funded by a National Institute for Health Research Advanced Fellowship (NIHR300056) whilst undertaking this work. Sally McManus is supported by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (Grant MR/V049879/1).

For Part 5 of this report, we would like to thank the eating disorders clinical rating team led by Tamsin Ford: Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, Clara Faria, Anya Ciobanca, Olurotimi Adejumo, Margharita Kousteni, Idura Hisham, and Jessica O’Logbon. We would also like to thank Mima Simic (Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National and Specialist Service South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) and Anna Conway Morris (Consultant Psychiatrist Adult Eating Disorders Service Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust), for their expert clinical advice, and Aslihan Baser and Imani Stone, research assistants at Cambridge University for their extensive support.