Photos of Helen Minnis and Kathleen BoydWe are delighted to announce that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has funded a programme of research to examine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) compared to services-as-usual. The study will start in March 2020, and will be led by Helen Minnis (left), Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow and HEHTA’s Dr Kathleen Boyd (right) will lead the economic evaluation.

Care experienced young people, parents (including foster carers and adoptive parents), health and social care commissioners will be central to the research so that, whatever the outcome, we will learn a great deal about how best to deliver services to children who have experienced abuse and neglect and the families in which they have been placed. Dr Boyd will lead the economic evaluation which will explore the cost-consequences and cost-effectiveness of DDP from both the NHS and societal perspectives to ensure that the longer term impacts on the children, families, education and employment are accounted for. The research will be conducted across the range of contexts in which DDP is delivered in the UK, including the NHS and social care. This work can help inform the UK NHS on the most cost-effective strategy for children who have experienced abuse and neglect.

The total amount of the award is £2,121,388.56.

First published: 5 December 2019

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