Children Young People and Families programme

CAMHS Review - Interim Report

Initial findings and recommendations from the CAMHS Review.

E-Moderator Training

The NCSS is offering two people per English Government Office region the opportunity to become trained e-moderators. The National CAMHS Support Service and the National CAMHS Workforce Programme will pay for the training which is being organised by the University of Leicester. What they ask in return is that each trained person e-moderates 2 courses for their region in the 12 months following the training.
Click here for further information, and here for an expression of interest form.

Dannie’s Dilemma

This is an interactive book for children with Aspergers Syndrome. It aims to help them with decisions, and the topics covered in the books are to help the children with all aspects of social situations. It is by C Haldane and K Jones, Chipmunkapublishing, 2008.

Questionnaire - Everybody's Business CD-ROM Training Package

The NCSS are looking for feedback on this training pack. Download the questionnaire to feedback comments and ideas about any future modules you would like to see.

Care Programme Approach (CPA) Briefing: Parents with Mental Health Problems and their Children

Briefing from DH and SCIE, April 2008. Download from the NIMHE website

Go to the NIMHE website for other documents regarding CPA.

CAMHS Review - Call for Evidence

The external review of CAMHS that was first announced in Dec 2007.
Click here to go to the CAMHS Review section of the DCSF website for more information about the reivew and details on how to submit evidence.

Targeted Mental Health Support Projects Announced

25 pilot projects have been announced by the DCSF. Each pilot will be implementing innovative ways to ensure an innovative service for vulnerable children, young people and families. The findings from pilot projects will inform the national roll-out.

Click here to download the DCSF press release.

A Profile of Child Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and Maternity Services in England 2007.

Report based on data from the 2007 Mapping Exercise.

The NHS in England: The operating framework for 2008/9

This document sets out a brief overview of the priorities for the NHS next year.

Children's Plan

This document sets out the Government's plans for the next ten years under each of the DCSF’s strategic objectives, with a chapter at the end looking at
how we will make these reforms happen.

It announces a review of CAMHS. Click here for further information about the review.

Children's health, our future: a review of progress against the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services 2004

This report provides an overview of progress towards the Children's National Service Framework. It outlines key policy milestones, progress to date, and the major challenges and opportunities still ahead.

Consultation on the Draft Revised Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice

The consultation document invites your comments on the draft revised Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice (in the light of the Mental Health Act 2007).
Chapter 39 of the consultation report is specifically about children and young people.

The consultation starts on 25 October 2007 and ends on 24 January 2008.

Early detection and intervention for young people at risk of psychosis

This report explores some of the development challenges for specialist services, illustrating how this emerging evidence base can be translated into the real world by providing examples of good practice in specialist services.

2007 Comprehensive Spending Review
PSA Delivery Agreement 12: Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People

This document forms part of the Public Service Agreements for the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review.

One of the priority areas is improving emotional health and well-being, and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

CAMHS Poster

This poster aims to inform young people, in a variety of languages, about how to access their local CAMHS.

Displayed it in children's centres, GP surgeries, school counselling offices, colleges and so on. There is space at the bottom of the poster for Local CAMHS to tailor it by adding their details at the bottom.

(This is quite a large file, so it will take a while to download.)

Implementing the Amended Mental Health Act

Who Pays? Establishing the Responsible Commissioner

This guidance was issued the DH, 18th September 2007 and replaces the Establishing the Responsible Commissioner guidance.

The document sets out a framework for establishing responsibility for commissioning an individual's care within the NHS, i.e. determining who pays for a patient’s care.

Listen Up

This report is by Ines Garcia and colleagues, and published by the Mental Health Foundation, September 2007.
It is based on their research projects: Youth Crisis, and Listen Up.