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Scrutiny Challenge Session: Children & Young People’s Mental Health Services (Annual Action Plan Update)
Meeting: 08/01/2018 - Health & Adults Scrutiny Sub-Committee (Item 4)
This paper submits an update on the recommendations of the Health Scrutiny Sub-Committee’s Challenge Session on Children & Young People’s Mental Health Services (CAMHS) which was undertaken in 2016.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Committee heard an update from Ronke Martins-Taylor, Divisional Director Youth and Commissioning, on the Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service action plan. Ms Martins-Taylor apologised to the Committee for the delay in publishing the action plan. It was noted that the reasons for special urgency were included in the agenda pack published prior to the winter break. Key points from each recommendation were briefly summarised, these included:
1. The Council are working with Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group and the voluntary sector to strengthen early intervention services.
2. Tower Hamlets has a record number of schools, 97%, accredited with the Healthy Schools Accreditation.
3. Parent and infant emotion health and wellbeing training was delivered in 2016/17 as part of the Tower Hamlets Together training.
4. Data is being scrutinised to investigate if there is a correlation between care leavers and teenage pregnancy.
5. A new integrated young people’s health and wellbeing service will begin in 2018 and will target young care leavers.
6. Co-commissioned specialist Community Adult Mental Health Service (CAMHS) was launched to support young people experiencing mental health issues and have been in contact with the youth justice system.
7. Empowering service users to contribute to service development.
8. Christine McInnes, Service Head Education and Partnership, has been working with families to raise awareness of mental health issues via transformation projects.
9. Improving cultural awareness of mental health issues. A pilot delivered by Tree4Life, trained local women in delivering mental health first aid.
10.Reducing stigma in mental health via a ‘Flourishing Minds’ pilot.
11.Reviewing the workforce to make it more reflective of the community. Core Bangladeshi employees were regarded as cultural consultants for the review.
12.Improving engagement with children and families in mental health awareness- The Children and Families team delivered training sessions for Parents at schools.
13.The next Children and Family System Review will consider auditing children’s centres.
14.That the Council and Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group raise awareness of mental health and available support services to non-mental health related staff.
Questions and comments from the Committee:
Councillor Mustaquim asked under what criteria are the young people admitted to the specialist CAMHS. Ms Martins-Taylor explained that the service is provided on a needs assessment basis. She advised Members to get in touch with her via email if they wanted to view a copy of the assessment criteria.
Councillor Asad said he was pleased with the Action Plan. With regard to recommendation one in the Action Plan he asked if an ethnic breakdown of the 123 people supported was available. In addition to this he asked what methods were used to support parent’s emotional wellbeing and whether the Community Commissioning Panel was representative of the community.
ACTION:
Ronke-Martin’s Taylor to investigate Councillor Asad’s questions and report back:
Recommendation 1: what was the ethnic breakdown of the 123 people supported?
Recommendation 3: What methods were used to support parents emotional wellbeing in the training delivered?
Recommendation 9: Is the Community ... view the full minutes text for item 4