Previous Reference: Joint Health and Social Care and Children’s Services Minute 9 (2017/18)

At a joint meeting of the Health and Social Care and Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committees on 28 November 2017 the Director of Strategy, Bradford Districts Clinical Commissioning Group presented a report (Document “A”) which provided an update on the progress of Bradford’s Children and Young People’s Future in Mind local transformation plan since last reported to the Committees in October 2016.    

It was resolved -

(1)       That the young people be thanked for their excellent contribution to the meeting.

(2)       That the Committee recognises the progress made in meeting the emotional and mental wellbeing needs of young people through the delivery of the Future in Mind transformation plan.

(3)       That as part of their roles Committee Members support and promote the work to improve emotional and mental wellbeing of young people.

(4)       That the success of the Buddying Scheme be welcomed and that officers be requested to explore the possibility of extending the “Buddying Period” beyond the current 12 weeks.

(5)       That the Committee request that the Children’s Trust Board invites the young people to present a report to them in the near future around bullying.

(6)       That young people be invited to a joint meeting of the Committee in six months time.

The Director of Strategic Partnerships (NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, Bradford and Craven) will present a report (Document “A”) that provides an update on the progress to improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people in Bradford, since the last report in November 2017.

Recommended –

That the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee are invited to:

a.    Reflect on the progress made to date.

b.    To continue to support the work of the Future in Mind delivery group

c.    To identify a champion from the Committee to join our delivery group.

                                                                        (Sasha Bhat – 01274 237537)

Resolved –

That the Committee:

(1)  Thanks all the young people for their presentations at the meeting.

(2)  Welcomes the progress made to date to improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people in the district.

(3)  Welcomes the work of the Future in Mind Delivery Group.

(4)  Receive further information on how young people express their concerns to peers/mentors and how that information is disseminated.

(5)  Nominates Councillor Humphreys and Councillor Peart as Champions to join the Future in Mind Delivery Group.

 (Sasha Bhat – 01274 237537)

Previous reference: Minute 9 (2017/2018)

At a joint meeting of the Health and Social Care and Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committees on 28 November 2017 the Director of Strategy, Bradford Districts Clinical Commissioning Group presented a report (Document “A”) which provided an update on the progress of Bradford’s Children and Young People’s Future in Mind local transformation plan since last reported to the Committees in October 2016.  At the previous meeting it was resolved –

(1)       That the young people be thanked for their excellent contribution to the meeting.

(2)       That the Committee recognises the progress made in meeting the emotional and mental wellbeing needs of young people through the delivery of the Future in Mind transformation plan.

(3)       That as part of their roles Committee Members support and promote the work to improve emotional and mental wellbeing of young people.

(4)       That the success of the Buddying Scheme be welcomed and that officers be requested to explore the possibility of extending the “Buddying Period” beyond the current 12 weeks.

(5)       That the Committee request that the Children’s Trust Board invites the young people to present a report to them in the near future around bullying.

(6)       That young people be invited to a joint meeting of the Committee in six months time.

The Director of Strategic Partnerships (NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, Bradford and Craven) presented a report (Document “A”) which provided an update on the progress to improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people in Bradford, since the last report in November 2017.  He outlined the five key themes that had emerged from the Future in Mind report published by the Department of Health in 2015:

1.    Promoting resilience, prevention and early intervention

2.    Improving access to effective support: a system without tiers

3.    Care for the most vulnerable

4.    Accountability and transparency

5.    Developing the workforce

The Head of Commissioning (Mental Wellbeing) explained that a local transformational plan had been published in 2016 to implement the Future in Mind objectives.  A vast amount of work had been undertaken locally to transform and integrate services and an evaluation or this work had been undertaken resulting in the Future in Mind local transformational plan being refreshed in 2018 (attached as Appendix 1 to Document “A”).  This refreshed plan had received approval from the Bradford and Airedale Health and Wellbeing Board in November 2018 and it outlined how the five key themes would be achieved. She stated that work was on-going in all 13 priority areas of the plan and highlighted some of the achievements to date, which included:

·         The development of the Youth in Mind service which was helping young people to look after and maintain their wellbeing and providing a mentoring service in 30 schools.

·         Established good partnership working with organisations such as Education, Sport England and the Youth Offending Team.

·         A new perinatal health service had been launched.

·         Work had been done to reduce the CAMHS waiting list and additional funding was  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5