Issue - meetings

Cllrs Turner, Cllr Butt, Ceri Jacobs, Director Commissioning Operations NCEL NHS England London Region,  and Sean Wilson, Interim Borough Commander Metropolitan Police, arrived during this item

The Board considered this agenda item and the ‘Children and Young People Mental Health Transformation Plan Update report’, in conjunction due to the significant crossover of the issues. 

Susan Lloyd, Consultant in Public Health, presented the report and explained that NHS England had required the development of a Children and Young People Mental Health Transformation Plan to underpin the delivery of the ‘Five Year Forward View for Mental Health’ and ‘Future in Mind’ national strategy and policies.  The Transformation Plan also provided details of the five key themes for specific development and investment and the additional specific investment in eating disorders and services.

The Needs Assessment had provided information on the current services delivered by CAMHS and the gaps in those services.  The Director of Public Health had identified 14 areas where services could be redesigned to better meet the local needs of LBBD children and young people.  Details of those gaps and areas for redesign were set out in the report.  However, overall the Needs Assessment had found that the Borough was already providing a significant amount of activity around mental health resilience and prevention and that excellent work was already being delivered at building resilience for Tiers 1, 2 3 and 4 services.

The additional funding had allowed for the Transformation Plan to be revisited and it was expected that the revised Plan would be presented to the Board in Autumn 2016.  The Needs Assessment had also indicated that the number of children and adolescents with mental health problems was high in LBBD when compared against both other London boroughs and national rates of incidence.  In addition, the number of children with diagnosable mental health problems was projected to increase to 8,044 by 2020.  The Needs Assessment would be a fundamental start point for informing the Transformation Plan and in making choices on prioritising investment at a time of austerity and increasing need. 

The Board:

(i)  Endorsed the findings of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Needs Assessment and noted the areas of good provision and gaps set out in the report.

(ii)  Agreed that the findings be used to support the commissioning of Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services for the residents of Barking and Dagenham.