Issue - meetings

The Joint Committee received a presentation on the Rise service from Becky Hale, WCC Assistant Director, People Strategy and Commissioning and Chris Evans, General Manager, Mental Health Services for Children & Young People Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. The presentation covered the following areas:

• An opening slide outlining the services delivered in conjunction with CWPT and CW Mind.
• Service Delivery during the Covid-19 incident, requiring rapid and immediate changes.
• Activity during the Covid-19 incident, showing waiting times for assessment, acute liaison performance and the percentage of assessments completed within 48 hours.
• An activity comparison for the periods of June and July of 2019 and 2020, showing the increased number of new and follow up appointments.
• An activity profile for the same periods showing a comparison of contact types.
• Local Transformation Plan (LTP) and the priorities for 2019/20.
• Transformation workstream updates
• Challenges
• Achievements

The report focussed on the progress on the Local Transformation Plan (LTP) and the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, containing a number of key updates:

• Warwickshire Children and Young People’s Emotional Well-being and Mental Health Contract was now in year four of the seven year contract.
• The breadth of services in the Rise offer continued to be delivered.
• The ‘front door’ to the Rise Service had remained open for children and young people throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Rise had implemented and developed new ways of working to support children and young people during the pandemic.
• No staff were moved away from working to support the mental health and well-being of children and young people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• In two consecutive months during the pandemic there had been an increase in the clinical activity of services linked to CWPT in Coventry and Warwickshire which included Warwickshire Rise.
• The delivery and refresh of the LTP and responding to Covid would continue to be the focus over the next six months.
• There would be an increased emphasis on co-production and engaging with children, young people, parent/carers and professionals.

The detail of the report focussed on the LTP and the priorities it included for 2019/20. Key updates from workstreams were reported under the areas of:

• Mental health in schools teams (MHST) (South Warwickshire)
• Community partnerships
• Vulnerable children’s offer
• 18 – 25 offer
• Crisis offer
• Pears site
• Digital offer
• National four week wait pilot (trailblazer)
• Eating disorder services
• Co-production/engagement strategy

The report then focussed on the RISE service offer during Covid-19, key messages provided, challenges faced and the achievements during this period. The next steps for 2020/21 were listed.

Questions and comments were invited, with responses provided as indicated:

• On the key updates from work streams and mental health in schools’ teams, more information was sought about the unsuccessful bid for additional funding in the north Warwickshire area. Context was provided on the eligible areas within both Warwickshire and Coventry, the successful bids in the south of the county and in Coventry. Not all ‘STP’ areas had been as successful, which was one of the reasons provided why the north Warwickshire bid had  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3