AGENDA ITEM 3.1.1

WREXHAM CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (CAMHS) STRATEGY GROUP

TERMS OF REFERENCE

1.Introduction

The Wrexham CAMHS Strategy Group has been established to provide a forum for the development and implementationof a local CAMHS Strategy relating to services in Wrexham.

By definition CAMHS services are multi-agency involving Statutory and Voluntary Sector partners.

2.Purpose

The purpose of the Wrexham CAMHS Strategy Group is to establish a forum that will:

  • Actively seek the views of Service Users in service planning.
  • Develop a comprehensive multi-agency CAMHS strategy for Wrexham in line with:

National Strategy “Everybody’s Business”.

National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services in Wales.

North Wales CAMHS Strategy.

Health Social Care and Well-being Strategy

Wrexham Children and Young People’s Plan

Specific policy and planning guidance.

  • Enable co-ordination of activity in the CAMHS service across Wrexham.
  • Encourage a sharing of information between the organisations represented.
  • Identify and address strategic and development issues.
  • Facilitate cohesion within the NE Wales Community and between Wrexham and the North Wales Region.
  • Plan a multi-agency response to strategic documents.
  • Commission studies and reports as required to inform strategic development of CAMHS services.
  • Commission specific theme groups to undertake specific areas of work. Co-ordinate and monitor the progress of these groups, including School based Counselling Services Project, Primary Mental Health Workers in Education, Suicide Prevention and Autistic Spectrum Disorder
  • Inform and influence the commissioning process.

3.Aims

The key aims of the group are to:

  • Ensure that joint working relationships and appropriate protocols are developed between all stake holders in Wrexham.
  • Facilitate cohesion and co-ordination of developments.
  • Help to inform the contracting process for CAMHS services.
  1. Responsibilities

Members of the Wrexham CAMHS Strategy Group are expected to:

  • Provide information and advice to other group members for their area of interest.
  • Actively participate in discussions as appropriate.
  • Actively support action points agreed by the group when presenting them to the organisation they represent.
  • Supply relevant and valid information, on behalf of the organisation or sector they represent, as appropriate.
  • Consult with, and seek the views of, relevant others within the organisation or sector they represent and provide feedback to the group.
  • In addition, group members will be required to attend meetings. Where a Group member is unable to attend he/she will have responsibility for deputising their role to someone with appropriate authority within their organisation or sector.
  • Provide expertise to commissioning process.
  • Relate CAMHS Strategy Group to Adult Mental Health Planning Group.

5.Membership

The Group shall consist of representatives from:

  • Wrexham Local Health Board
  • Wrexham Local Authority, Children and Young People’s Service,

Learn and Achieve Dept,

Prevention and Inclusion Dept

Safeguard and Support Dept

  • Voluntary Sector
  • North East Wales NHS Trust
  • Provider organisations and other professionals to be co-opted as necessary to support the aims and objectives of this group.
  1. Reporting Arrangements

This task and finish group will be accountable to the Children and Young Peoples Framework Partnership.

It will report via meetings to the Healthy and Active Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCoG) and will, when requested, provide reports to the :

  • Healthy and Active SCoG
  • Children and Young People’s Framework Partnership Board
  • Children’s Partnership
  • Young People’s Partnership
  • others as identified by the chair of the H&A SCoG

The Chair and Vice Chair to be elected by the group

Chair and Vice Chair will originate from different partner organisations

7.Meetings

Bi-monthly, arranged to enable the group to report in to the meeting cycle of the H&A SCoG, and subsequent Framework Partnership Board Meetings.