![]() ![]() ![]() This narrative review illustrates how policy discourse frames and produces ‘problems’, and how the evidence used is selected and justified politically. Local policy makers have a critical role in translating and adapting national policy for their communities but are constrained by absences and oversights in relation to health inequalities. ![]() We illustrate how ‘problems’ are discursively created through the process of policy development, justified using specific types of evidence, and that this process is politically motivated. We suggest these inadequacies may have been avoided if stakeholder responses to the consultation process had been more meaningfully addressed. We found absences and oversights in relation to inequalities (most notably the lack of acknowledgement that mental health can cause inequalities), access, workforce capacity, and the impacts of cuts and austerity on service provision. We also reviewed wider policy discourses through engaging with stakeholder responses, providing an innovative methodological contribution to scholarship on public health policy and health inequalities. MethodsĪ narrative review using a problem representation evaluation, we critiqued the policy and related consultation documents using a social determinants of health perspective. In the context of this policy’s implementation as ongoing and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for appropriate, timely and ongoing national government commitment is vital. A national policy for England, published in 2017, entitled ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision’ aimed to address the increasing prevalence mental health problems in children and tackle inequalities. ![]()
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