Children's Emotional Health and Wellbeing

This work supports the delivery of PSA 12, which outlines the need to improve children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing, recognising the specific  contribution of services that improve children’s mental health.  The programme also supports the target to implement fully the Children’s NSF by 2014, and in particular Standard Nine of the NSF.  Our work is aimed at delivering the Every Child Matters agenda, and the psychological contribution to the ‘Be Healthy’ outcome in particular.

There are several elements to the programme, which includes links to other programmes such as the implementation of the Mental Health Act in relation to young people and Delivering Race Equality (DRE) (see www.nmhdu.org), particularly into the commissioning of services.  Our programme works directly with the chairs of the 31 local CAMHS partnerships, and with the mental health trusts in London, providing a service to local stakeholders. In addition, the programme has the following themed work streams:

  • CAMHS Service Improvement

  • Learning Disabilities

  • Workforce and Training

  • Participation

  • Commissioning and Tier 4 - see below for London Key CAMHS Commissioning Indicators

  • Schools work and Mental Health Promotion

  • Youth Justice

  • Cultural Competence and BME

  • Children and Young People and the Mental Health Act

  • Health of Children in Care

     

 

London Key CAMHS Commissioning Indicators

Key indicator presentation

Key indicator list

Key indicator guidance

 

 

FURTHER LEARNING FROM THE CHILDREN'S NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES PROGRAMME AND ITS DISSEMINATION DURING 2008-9

Report

 

 

Workforce Documents

Responsibility & Accountability

This document brings together the different guidance and practice recommended by different professional bodies. It is intended for practical use by multi disciplinary teams in decision making by clarifying for all professions where their responsibilities and accountabilities lie to help them work through assumptions that they make and therefore aims to enhance decision making.

Joint Guidance on Employment of Psychiatrists

This version replaces that produced in 2005 and includes a number of changes including;

·        It omits all reference to prescribed numbers of consultant psychiatrists

·        It highlights the importance of assessing the need for the post in the context of the multi disciplinary team

·        It highlights the value of job planning and it has an exemplar job description and person spec to support local implementation

 

 

Personality development pathways 2009 Diagram

 

 

CAMHS Newsletter

National bulletin Jan 2010

National bulletin March 2010