Dear Jennifer

We can confirm receipt of your Freedom of Information request on the 15th October.

Kind regards

Information Governance Team
North East London NHS Foundation Trust

show quoted sections

Dear Jennifer

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.

 

Please find below narrative and information attached.

 

•   Inclusion/exclusion criteria

 

NELFT’s Barking and Dagenham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
(CAMHS) is for anybody aged between 0-18 years, living in the London
Borough of Barking and Dagenham and free at the point of entry.
Any young person experiencing emotional, behavioural and/or mental health
problems, (or any parent, guardian, professional or teacher of a child who
is experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties), may
access our service.

 

•  How the service is accessed, i.e. open access, self-referral, third
party referral  

 

ALL of these. We accept self-referral and professional referral. The first
step to getting help from CAMHS is usually that the young person will be
referred for a CAMHS assessment. This referral can come from the
parents/carers, a teacher, or a GP. B&D CAMHS accepts self-referrals. If
the young person is supported by social care, a youth offending team, or a
service at your school, they might also be able to refer.

 

•  Channels of support, e.g. telephone, email, text, webchat,
face-to-face, and types of location if face-to-face

 

face to face primarily with option to offer, phone, messaging, video
calling. Face to face is offered in home setting, school settings, Axe St
or other health building, community settings such as youth centres, cafes,
parks – primary aim is to best meet the needs of the YP.

 

 

•   Opening hours/availability

 

Monday – Friday 9-5pm for core community CAMHS, out of hours is provided
via a crisis support offer

 

•  Type of support provided, i.e. structured therapeutic counselling, peer
support, helpline

 

Barking and Dagenham CAMHS offers a range of services varying from the use
of self-help and guided self-management to more in-depth psychological
treatments such as structured therapeutic support, counselling, advise and
signposting, EMDR, family interventions/work,  etc  . These are evidence
based and are delivered by highly skilled practitioners including child
and adolescent psychotherapists, counsellors, clinical psychologists,
counselling psychologists, family therapists and child, nurses, Looked
after Children’s’ Social worker, Mental Health practitioners, Support Time
and Resilience Workers, clinical and counselling psychologists and child
and adolescent psychiatrists. We are an established team with a wide range
of skilled clinicians who are passionate about providing a high standard
of intervention with the young people of Barking and Dagenham .

 

If support is provided to parents or carers

 

Yes

 

Length of support offered

 

answer varies according to the needs of the individual patient, average
length of time on the caseload is approx. 70 days  

 

• If the support is provided by paid employees, freelance/contract staff,
volunteers.

 

service is provided via paid employees and vacancies are covered via
temporary/agency staff as required

 

•   Intended outcomes for the service

 

to improve the mental health of service users as measured through patient
reported outcome measures

 

•    Number of people under 18 that can be supported i) at any one time
and/or ii) in any given twelve month period  

 

There is no cap on the maximum capacity that the service can support. We
know that there is an increased acuity, complexity, and demand on the
service. The service ensure that patients have timely access to the
service and managing patient flow. Over the last three years, the average
caseload of the service has been 817.

 

 

•   Where relevant, number of people under 18 that have been referred to
the service in the most recent reporting period (quarter or year)

 

Data attached

 

•   Number of people under 18 supported in the most recent reporting
period (quarter or year)

 

Data attached

 

 

For each service, I would also like to request a copy of their:

 

•           Safeguarding policy  - see attached

 

Confidentiality policy – see attached. This policy is currently under
review, staff will continue to follow the existing policy as our guidance
is where a policy has gone past its review date it will remain valid,
until it has been reviewed and the new one has been published. 

 

•          Position statement on self-determination, decision making and
choice

 

currently being reviewed and work in progress. The service is working
closely with participation group and NELFT patient experience team to
inform this. The team ensure that the Child and YP take an active part in
co-production and influencing positive change within the service. They are
also integral in informing their care and support plan and are at the
centre of decision making. The team ensure that the voice of the child is
recorded and considered. The team provides multidisciplinary assessment
and treatment for a wide range of child mental health problems for
children up to 18 years of age. The MDT work together to provide a
comprehensive service in line with the scientific evidence and
good-practice guidance and work with other professionals such as GPs,
schools, and Paediatricians in formulation of support plan and care.

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

Information Governance Team

North East London NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

show quoted sections