Issue - meetings

Commissioning Arrangements for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

Meeting: 09/07/2019 - Executive (Item 12)

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To receive a report from the Interim Director of Education, which provides information on the commissioning review of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Lincolnshire which commenced in April 2018, from which a Commissioning Plan (Appendix A) was produced and seeks approval of recommendations for future commissioning from 1 April 2020)

Additional documents:

Decision:

That the Executive:

 

(1)  Approves the entering into by the Council of an Agreement under section 75 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with the Clinical Commissioning Groups in Lincolnshire for the pooling of funding and lead commissioning by the Council of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

 

(2)  Approves the entering into by the Council of an Agreement under section 75 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) for the exercise by LPFT of the functions of the Council in relation to CAMHS alongside relevant NHS functions.

 

(3)  Approves the Council maintaining the current level of core funding (£724,589) whilst working with LPFT to find areas of efficiency to increase what this funding is used for.

 

(4)  Delegates to the Interim Director of Education, in consultation with the Executive Councillor for Adult Care, Health and Children's Services, authority to determine the final form of the above agreements and approve them being entered into.

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report from Heather Sandy (Interim Director of Education), which invited the Executive to consider future commissioning arrangements for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

 

The Acting Head of Service Children's Strategic Commissioning provided the Executive with background information behind the commissioning review; current commissioning arrangements; the CAMHS review findings; the benefits of commissioning CAMHS for the council; and the budget required to fund CAMHS from 2020/21, details of which were shown on page 16 of the report.

 

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board advised that on 7 June 2019, the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee had considered the Executive report and had supported the four recommendations including in the report. Comments of the Committee were detailed on page 21 of the report.

 

In response to a question, it was advised that officers had met with representatives of clinical commissioning groups and had identified areas that would benefit from receiving additional funding, should any extra resources become available.

 

RESOLVED

 

That the Executive:

 

(1)  Approves the entering into by the Council of an Agreement under section 75 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with the Clinical Commissioning Groups in Lincolnshire for the pooling of funding and lead commissioning by the Council of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

 

(2)  Approves the entering into by the Council of an Agreement under section 75 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) for the exercise by LPFT of the functions of the Council in relation to CAMHS alongside relevant NHS functions.

 

(3)  Approves the Council maintaining the current level of core funding (£724,589) whilst working with LPFT to find areas of efficiency to increase what this funding is used for.

 

(4)  Delegates to the Interim Director of Education, in consultation with the Executive Councillor for Adult Care, Health and Children's Services, authority to determine the final form of the above agreements and approve them being entered into.


 

 
 
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