Matters Arising
Minutes:
Minute 65: Services around Children’s Mental Health
The Director of Children, Young People & Learning reported that she had met with Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust to discuss commissioning arrangements and a further meeting had been arranged to consider future arrangements for tiers 1 to 3. A steering group had now also been formed to address the issue of future commissioning arrangements in this area.
The Local Area Team agreed to provide the Board with timescales for Tier 4 commissioning.
The Chairman expressed concern that little progress had been made since the last meeting despite the Board requesting that progress on joint commissioning arrangements be brought to them before this meeting.
The Chief Executive reported that a number of partners needed to come together to deliver this work and that whilst the Council would take the lead in bringing the partners together, this work couldn’t be delivered by any one partner alone and the Council could not ultimately determine how the waiting lists worked for CAMHS.
It was agreed that the CCG and NHS England would liaise with the Director of Children, Young People & Learning to set out timescales for the development of a joint commissioning strategy for CAMHS, with a view to a strategy being in place by September 2014 and submit a report to the April 2014 Board meeting to report progress.
The Chairman asked that he and the Vice Chairman be kept informed of developments on this as actions develop.