What’s the project?
The Fixing Futures Review is a process to gather insights on operational aspects of the mental health support system. This review is a 15-month process, looking into children and young people’s mental health support in the UK. The Review is being led by the charity Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HGBI) with support from Bridges Outcomes Partnership.
The Fixing Futures Review is an operational review that will identify and test practical ways to make children and young people’s mental health services more effective, efficient, and focused on the outcomes that matter most to young people themselves.
It aims to capture experience across different mental health service settings and regions, highlighting what is working, what is not, and which outcomes children and young people themselves value most.
This information will then be used to design 5 pilot projects to test how the support system could be improved.
You can find more information about Fixing Future Review here.
Find out more
The Review team is forming a Young People’s Panel to advise on the Fixing Futures Review. The panel will have 8 members in total. The Review team is looking to recruit 4-5 members via the McPin Foundation’s existing YPAGs.
The panel will…
- meet 6 times over the 15 months, over Teams,
- offer guidance to the Review staff on children and young people’s engagement,
- provide feedback on Review findings,
- input into pilot designs,
- receive paid tasks in between meetings.
Your insights will play a key role in shaping practical improvements to children and young people’s mental health services across the UK.
- Must be based in the UK.
- Must have lived experience of mental health challenges and engagement with mental health support when under the age of 18 as this is the main age focus
- Must be aged between 18-25 years at the time of application.
- Must have reliable internet access.
- Must be committed and available to regularly attend virtual meetings every 8 weeks over the next 15 months, starting from mid-December 2025 (exact date of first regular Panel meeting date to be decided).
- Preferably available for an extra paid task to review the young people engagement plan, questions and incentives for the Review to be held online via Teams on Monday 1st December at 6pm. If you cannot make this meeting date, please specify – it may not rule you out.
- You don’t need any special expertise – just lived experience, ideas, and a willingness to help improve services for other young people.
- Payment of £25 an hour. There will be a maximum of 6 regular Young People’s Panel sessions. Each session will be 1.5hrs long with one hour’s paid preparation. Adhoc tasks will also be paid on the same terms.
- A member of the team will meet with you individually to introduce themselves and discuss your preferred ways of working and support needs. If interest is high, we may need to do this remotely or choose another approach.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please email [email protected] with brief answers to the following questions:
- What is your name?
- What is your date of birth?
- Are you based in the UK? Which country: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales?
- Why are you interested in joining the panel?
- Please share some details about your experience of being involved in youth advisory groups (e.g. McPin Foundation)?
- Are you available to join the Review team for the adhoc paid task, online via Teams, on Monday 1st December at 6pm to review the young people engagement plans, questions and incentives?
- Sometimes, after talking about topics like mental health, people feel they need a little extra support or someone to chat to. What support do you currently have in place (e.g. supportive friends, family, health professionals or mental health charities)? Is there anything that Healthy Brains Global Initiative could do to support you or make your involvement experience better?
- How did you hear about this opportunity?
You are welcome to send your responses in audio or video format if preferred. If you need any help completing your expression of interest, you can get in touch with Hattie MacLeod via [email protected]
9am on Tuesday 25th November 2025.
Please note that the McPin Foundation regularly promotes opportunities on behalf of other institutions; we are not responsible for the continuation or contents of further correspondence with any project partners where we are not listed as the project main point of contact.
