Decision details

Improving Mental Health Services For Children And Adolescents In Hammersmith & Fulham

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Hammersmith and Fulham’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provide multi-disciplinary assessment, and therapeutic and psychopharmacological interventions for children and young people up to the age of 18 years. As a result of the move toward sovereign borough arrangements in 2018, and the dissolution of Section 75 arrangements, contracts funded by the Local Authority have become the responsibility of the Local Authority, while others remained joint Local Authority / CCG contracts. We are therefore now working to regularise Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s position regarding those contracts for which it has retained funding and responsibility, whether on a joint or sole basis.

Decision:

It is recommended that Cabinet:

 

1.     Notes and ratify the decision to directly award the following Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) contracts:

 

·       A contract for Looked after Children for a two-year period from 1st April 2018 with West London NHS Trust at a cost of £380,083 with provision for a one-year extension;

 

·       A contract for Early Intervention Community Mental Health Services for a one-year period from 1st April 2019 with West London NHS Trust at a cost of £210,932 with provision for a one-year extension;

 

·       A contract for the Meanwhile Parental Health Project for a two-year period from 1st April 2018 with Central North West London NHS Trust at a cost of £163,784 with provision for a one-year extension.

 

2.     Delegates the decision to approve a one-year extension in respect of the two contracts with West London NHS Trust to the Director of Children’s Services in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children and Education.

 

Report author: Craig Holden

Publication date: 05/11/2019

Date of decision: 04/11/2019

Decided at meeting: 04/11/2019 - Cabinet

Effective from: 08/11/2019

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