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Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Report from 25 February 2026 assessment
Contents
Ratings - Child and adolescent mental health wards
Our view of the service
We assessed Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trusts, Child and Adolescent Mental Health wards on the 28 and 29 October 2025.
We visited all the Trusts child and adolescent mental health wards, which were located over two sites:
- Mill Lodge which was a 10-bed general adolescent ward
- Red Kite View which contained two wards, a 16-bed general adolescent unit and a separate 6 bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). However, the day before we visited Red Kite View, patients from the PICU were relocated to another ward within Red Kite View due to an environmental issue. Therefore, the general adolescent ward had been split in two to accommodate the PICU patients.
We rated the service as good. We found a breach of regulation 12, safe care and treatment, in relation to medicine management and mandatory training.
We assessed the service against ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ guidance to make judgements about whether the provider guaranteed people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted.
We carried out 3 short observational framework for inspections (SOFIs) which is an observational tool used to capture the experiences of service users who may not be able to express this for themselves.
We gathered information from young people using the service and their families and/or carers, staff and managers, stakeholders and we also carried out our own observations. We reviewed a range of documents including care records, policies and procedures. We looked at all 33 quality statements.
We have asked the provider for an action plan in response to the concerns found at this assessment.
People's experience of this service
During our assessment, we spoke with 7 young people and 4 carers. We also reviewed the minutes from young people’s community meetings which were held on the ward.
Young people were positive about the service, and they thought staff were kind and helpful and that they could speak to them when they needed to. Young people told us they felt safe on the wards. However, they did raise concerns about the number of staff changing, especially on night shifts, and some described finding it difficult to engage with bank and agency staff.
Carers also shared concerns that young people did not always feel safe when there were higher numbers of agency staff working, who did not know young people well. Some carers attended several times a week and they knew who permanent staff were and who were new to the ward. However, they did feel that this was an issue that had been addressed recently, and they felt the staffing at the service had become more consistent.