CYP Mental Health Support
Reference: 24-25003
Date response sent: 16/04/2024
Details of enquiry
- Which CAMHS services are offered? Please list these services.
- Do you operate a 0-25 service?
- Can young people self-refer to CAMHS?
- Which of the following non-specialistpublicly-funded services for young people’s mental health (a) currently exist and/or (b) used to exist within the last decade (please indicate if they currently exist, and if they used to exist if you hold this data):
a. Social prescribing
b. Bereavement services
c. Peer support
d. Mental Health Support Teams
e. School counsellors, mentors, or pastoral or key support workers
f. Educational psychologists
g. Youth groups
h. Wellbeing cafes or mental health drop-in services
i. Youth information, advice and counselling services (YIACS) / early support hubs
j. Advice line for mental health issues
k. Targeted service(s) for LGBTQ+ young people
l. Targeted service(s) for young people from minority ethnic / racialised communities
m. Targeted service(s) for other underserved groups (please list here)
n. Targeted service(s) for young people on waiting lists for access to NHS mental health services (formerly tier 3)
o. Art or music therapy
p. Online support service / app
q. Occupational therapy
r. Any other service (please list here)
- Do any of the following exist (please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary)?
a. A CAMHS or young people’s mental health partnership board?
b. A designated individual or team who coordinates partnership working across services for children and families / settings?
c. Data-sharing infrastructure to share data across services, for example, schools, social care, youth justice, special educational needs teams, etc.?
d. Evaluation of young people’s outcomes following engagement with services?
e. A young people’s advisory group or official mechanism for young people to feed into service design and improvement?
- Is there a single point of access for young people with a mental health concern? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary.
- Do you operate a ‘no wrong door’ approach? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary.
- Do young people have to be referred to access a mental health support service? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary.
9. Are there specific services or approaches to ensure under-served groups of young people can access support e.g. young people from minority ethnic / racialised backgrounds, LGBTQ+ young people, etc.? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary
Response sent
- Which CAMHS services are offered? Please list these services.
- Do you operate a 0-25 service?
- Can young people self-refer to CAMHS?
- Which of the following non-specialistpublicly-funded services for young people’s mental health (a) currently exist and/or (b) used to exist within the last decade (please indicate if they currently exist, and if they used to exist if you hold this data):
The information you have requested in your questions 1-4, as above, is already publicly available on the Trust’s website, and may be reached via the following link: Children – Tavistock and Portman
a. Social prescribing
b. Bereavement services
c. Peer support
d. Mental Health Support Teams
e. School counsellors, mentors, or pastoral or key support workers
f. Educational psychologists
g. Youth groups
h. Wellbeing cafes or mental health drop-in services
i. Youth information, advice and counselling services (YIACS) / early support hubs
j. Advice line for mental health issues
k. Targeted service(s) for LGBTQ+ young people
l. Targeted service(s) for young people from minority ethnic / racialised communities
m. Targeted service(s) for other underserved groups (please list here)
n. Targeted service(s) for young people on waiting lists for access to NHS mental health services (formerly tier 3)
o. Art or music therapy
p. Online support service / app
q. Occupational therapy
r. Any other service (please list here)
- Do any of the following exist (please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary)?
a. A CAMHS or young people’s mental health partnership board?
Yes, we provide a CAMHS service – please see our website at Community and integrated services
b. A designated individual or team who coordinates partnership working across services for children and families / settings?
All our services do this
c. Data-sharing infrastructure to share data across services, for example, schools, social care, youth justice, special educational needs teams, etc.?
We feed into a Shared Care Record called the HIE (Health Information Exchange)
d. Evaluation of young people’s outcomes following engagement with services?
Yes, across all our services, and we are working to improve our collection of data in this area through a quality improvement project
e. A young people’s advisory group or official mechanism for young people to feed into service design and improvement?
Yes – we have a range of opportunities supported by our Patient and Public Involvement Team
- Is there a single point of access for young people with a mental health concern? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary.
Please see our website at Children – Tavistock and Portman
7. Do you operate a ‘no wrong door’ approach? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary.
Yes. We do not diagnose children as we operate within the THRIVE model therefore we provide a service based on need rather than a diagnosis. We developed the model in our services and this takes a no tier no wrong door, population approach to CAMHS. The model and its implementation details can be found here: www.implementingthrive.org
8. Do young people have to be referred to access a mental health support service? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary.
No – we do accept self-referrals for a number of our services and we have a public facing platform to support children, young people and their parents/carers access a range of help and support options: Welcome to the Waiting Room (nclwaitingroom.nhs.uk)
9. Are there specific services or approaches to ensure under-served groups of young people can access support e.g. young people from minority ethnic / racialised backgrounds, LGBTQ+ young people, etc.? Please answer yes or no and elaborate if necessary
Yes, please see our website for further details Children – Tavistock and Portman