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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Local Transformation Plan
Meeting: 29/09/2015 - Cabinet (Item 8)
8 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Local Transformation Plan 
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Minutes:
Background:
This report set out the requirement for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), in partnership with Local Authorities, service providers, young people and families and other key stakeholders to submit a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Local Transformation Plan to NHS England by 16 October 2015 and the steps that were necessary to attain sign-off and approval.
It also set out the actions that NHS Medway CCG and the Council were taking to ensure that a clear and comprehensive Local Transformation Plan was developed that met the requirements of the guidance and adequately reflected the extensive consultation and engagement that had taken place in the preparation of Medway’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
It was noted that significant additional and recurrent financial resources were available to CCGs to support Children and Young Peoples’ Emotional Health and Wellbeing and deliver improved CAMHS services in line with the aims and objectives of ‘Future in Mind’. This report was published in April 2015 by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce which was jointly chaired by NHS England and the Department of Health. The report established a clear direction and some key principles about how to make it easier for children and young people to access high quality mental health care when they needed it.
The Local Transformation Plan provided a one-off assurance framework for this additional funding in 2015/2016. Thereafter, funding would be allocated to CCGs in conjunction with established annual planning rounds.
Guidance for preparation and submission of Local Transformation Plans was issued to CCGs on 3 August 2015. A draft plan was required to be submitted to NHS England’s local Team (Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Medway) on 11 September 2015 as part of a local assurance process.
It was noted that the Health and Wellbeing Board had considered this report on 15 September 2015. Details of the Board’s discussion and decision were set out in section 7 of the report.
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126/2015 |
The Cabinet agreed: a) the proposal of a stand alone Medway Local Transformation Plan for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, reflecting Medway’s unique needs and characteristics and the planned and proposed structure of supporting services. This did not prejudice any future decisions in respect of future CAMHS commissioning. b) to note that the formal sign off of the Transformation Plan would be by the CCG through its governance arrangements.
c) to delegate authority for signing off the Plan to the Director of Children and Adults Services on behalf of the Council, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and the Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board. The finalised plan would be presented to the Health and Wellbeing Board and Medway Council’s Cabinet in November 2015 and would also need to be approved through the CCG governance.
d) to support collaborative approaches with neighbouring CCGs in relation to the development of a Community Eating Disorder Service, in line with published commissioning guidelines and/or potential integration with other ... view the full minutes text for item 8 |