Agenda and draft minutes
Venue: Committee Room 2, Shire Hall. View directions
Contact: Paul Spencer - Senior Democratic Services Officer
Media
No. | Item |
---|---|
General Additional documents: |
|
Appointment of Chair for the meeting Additional documents: Minutes: It was agreed that Councillor Dahmash be appointed Chair for the meeting. |
|
Apologies Additional documents: Minutes: Apologies had been received from County Councillors Margaret Bell, Peter Gilbert, Daniel Gissane, Colin Hayfield and Jeff Morgan (Portfolio Holders), Howard Roberts, Jerry Roodhouse, Dominic Skinner, Pam Williams, from Councillor Pam Redford (Warwick District Council) and John McRoberts (co-opted representative).
|
|
Disclosures of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests Additional documents: Minutes: None. |
|
To confirm the minutes of the joint meeting held on 30 January 2019. Additional documents: Minutes: The minutes of the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting held on 30 January 2019 were agreed as a true record and signed by the Chair.
|
|
This joint meeting will receive an update from the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust on the Children and Young People’s Emotional Well-being and Mental Health contract.
Additional documents: Minutes: An update was provided on Children and Young People’s Emotional Well-being and Mental Health by Louise Birta of WCC Strategic Commissioning and Chris Evans of Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust (CWPT). This contract is delivered by CWPT in partnership with Coventry and Warwickshire Mind (CW Mind). The report and accompanying presentation focused on performance and outcomes, prevention and intervention, waiting times, service developments, challenges and achievements. Sections of the report focused on the following areas, with further tables and graphs to illustrate progress:
· Prevention and Early Intervention · Waiting times · Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) waiting times · Support for children looked after · Service developments o Community offer o Digital offer o South Warwickshire trailblazer · Children in crisis · Challenges · Achievements
The presentation gave an overview of the service and drew out the key messages for each of the above areas.
Questions and comments were invited, with responses provided as indicated:
· There had been a consultation process to seek improvements in the offer and pathway for vulnerable children. An outline was given of the review process over the last 12-18 months. This had assessed the services needed, improving the collaboration between agencies and to ensure the right staffing and model of service / support was put in place, tailored to each vulnerable person’s needs. · Related questions concerned whether early intervention could reduce the number of young people who went into care, with reference made to out of county placements. · It was questioned how many children had not received the correct interventions and whether those children had been adversely affected as a result, in terms of their life chances. · A member asked how services could be improved if they were at full capacity. · Chris Evans responded to the above questions, referring to the need for a system response, whilst accepting CWPT’s role within that system. There was the potential for people to gain advice and support at an early stage, for example through the Dimensions Tool. Other aspects were the development of a crisis team, a home treatment service and the pilot trailblazer project in the south of Warwickshire. Early intervention to prevent harm was a key aspect of the RISE service. · Jed Francique emphasised the need to be mindful of what the RISE service could achieve and what it could not. There could be many contributors to why young people needed to go into care. RISE could respond to their emotional wellbeing needs. On capacity, he added context about the shortage in clinical staffing, which was projected to worsen. It was fundamental that the service worked with CW Mind and made use of digital solutions too. Becky Hale added that there was evidence that the interventions were beginning to reduce demand for tier 4 mental health hospital admissions for children with learning disabilities and/or autism. It was expected that the work of the crisis team and home treatment service would likewise have a positive impact. · There were long waiting times for some initial assessments and then a further 13 week wait for the ... view the full minutes text for item 2. |
|
Coventry and Warwickshire Maternity, Children and Young People Programme (MCYP) The Joint Committee will receive a presentation from Anna Hargrave of South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group. Additional documents: Minutes: A presentation was provided by Anna Hargrave, representing all Warwickshire clinical commissioning groups on the Coventry and Warwickshire MCYP.
The presentation covered the following areas:
· Introduce the programme and what we want to achieve; · Why the programme is important; · Local and national context; · The services being explored and ensuring they are fit for purpose; · Why we are focusing on maternity and child health first; · An outline of the engagement process; · The clinical led response.
Questions and comments were invited, with responses provided as indicated:
The Chair asked when a further update should be provided. It was suggested this should be in six-months’ time. This review would also need to be considered by the Joint Coventry and Warwickshire Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee as it progressed.
Resolved
That the presentation is noted. |
|
Any Urgent Items At the discretion of the Chair, items may be raised which are considered urgent (please notify Democratic Services in advance of the meeting).
Additional documents: Minutes: None.
………………………………….. Chair
The meeting closed at 4.15p.m. |