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Children & Young People’s Emotional Health & Wellbeing Network (Sefton) Date: Thursday 8 th February 2018 Time: 1pm – 3pm Venue: Room 22, Sefton Community Learning Service, 53 Cambridge Road, Seaforth, L21 1EZ In attendance: Alison Meehan – Winston’s Wish Bob Wilkinson – Southport & District Samaritans Caroline Roberts – Sefton Carers Centre Caroline Scott – Sefton CVS Catherine Brindle – NWBH Specialist School Nurse Jo Costi – Venus Lorraine Webb - Venus Lydia Connolly – Sefton Council Communications Lynn Loughran – Chair/Sefton CVS Ruth Nicholson – NWBH Student Nurse Vicky Killen – Vice Chair/Sefton CAMHS Apologies: Adele Hoskison-Clark – Sefton S.E.N. & Inclusion Service Helen Leach – RASA Jennie Murphy – Well Young Person Project Joanne Owen – Health in Mind Merseyside Joe Ackland – Merseyside Youth Association (MYA) John Baden – Complementary Education Karen Downey – Brighter Horizons 4U Scott Jones – Sefton Carers Centre Young Carer 1. Welcome and introductions Actions/ Information Lorraine welcomed all to the meeting and thanked the Well YP team for arranging the venue. Attendees introduced themselves. 2. Notes of last meeting and matters arising The notes of the last meeting on 23 rd November were agreed. Sefton Carers Centre – Details of Young Carers Service attached 1

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Children & Young People’s Emotional Health & Wellbeing Network (Sefton)

Date: Thursday 8th February 2018Time: 1pm – 3pm

Venue: Room 22, Sefton Community Learning Service, 53 Cambridge Road, Seaforth, L21 1EZ

In attendance:Alison Meehan – Winston’s WishBob Wilkinson – Southport & District SamaritansCaroline Roberts – Sefton Carers CentreCaroline Scott – Sefton CVSCatherine Brindle – NWBH Specialist School Nurse

Jo Costi – VenusLorraine Webb - VenusLydia Connolly – Sefton Council CommunicationsLynn Loughran – Chair/Sefton CVSRuth Nicholson – NWBH Student NurseVicky Killen – Vice Chair/Sefton CAMHS

Apologies:Adele Hoskison-Clark – Sefton S.E.N. & Inclusion ServiceHelen Leach – RASAJennie Murphy – Well Young Person Project

Joanne Owen – Health in Mind MerseysideJoe Ackland – Merseyside Youth Association (MYA)

John Baden – Complementary EducationKaren Downey – Brighter Horizons 4U

Scott Jones – Sefton Carers Centre Young Carer

1. Welcome and introductions Actions/InformationLorraine welcomed all to the meeting and thanked the Well YP team for arranging the venue. Attendees introduced themselves.

2. Notes of last meeting and matters arisingThe notes of the last meeting on 23rd November were agreed.

Sefton Carers Centre – Details of Young Carers Service attached

30 Days of Sefton in Mind – report attached. The plan is to repeat the initiative this year, with maybe one or two stories a week, instead of daily.

Summer 2018 Services – postponed to next meeting due to Green Paper consultation

3. Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: A Green paper

The Green Paper was published on 4th December https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision-a-green-paper

The core proposals are:1. Designated Senior Leads for Mental health in schools and colleges2. New Mental Health Support teams covering clusters of schools, to provide specific

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extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help3. A limited number of pilots to assess impact on NHS waiting times, with ambition of

achieving a 4-week waiting time for access to specialist NHS children and young people’s mental health services

‘Trailblazer sites’ will lead the roll out. Ambitions are in addition to the delivery of Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. Waiting time pilots will be selected from areas which have elements one and two in place.In addition: New national strategic partnership on mental health of 16-25 year olds Chief Medical Officer report on impact of social media and continued work with

social media industry Continued strengthening of the evidence base through research

The consultation ends on 2nd March. We agreed the following draft response from the Network. Further comments are invited, to be received by Lynn by Thursday 22nd February, who will then submit the response on behalf of the Network.

Question 1: Do you think these core proposals have the right balance of emphasis across a) schools and colleges and b) NHS specialist children and young people’s mental health services?We agree there is a gap for children with mild and moderate MH difficulties and agree this needs to be addressed. For this to happen though, clear commissioned resource needs to be ring-fenced for these children and their needs.The link with specialist CAMHS is central and care pathways step up and down are important. Is there a role in GPs being flexible for this population as we were mindful GPs aren’t really mentioned?RESOURCE is central. Incentivise? What does this mean? Need time and resources; training and time to address difficulties. Need cultural sea change in school. Will this happen through these changes?Need whole school approaches. Are these proposals at odds with OFSTED agenda prioritising attendance and achievement – not mental health? Will it replace chronic under-funding of pastoral support in school?There is a gap for support of parents, who are central to children’s emotional health and wellbeing.Need to have helpful responses at this level for bereavement and trauma.Question 2: To support every school and college to train a Designated Senior Lead for Mental Health, we will provide a training fund. What do you think is the best way to distribute the fund to schools and colleges? (Rank in order of preference)Set amount of funding made available to each school for them to buy relevant training with 4Funded training places made available locally for schools to book onto 1Funding allocated to local authorities and multi-academy trusts to administer to schools 3Funding distributed through teaching school alliances 2Question 3: Do you have any other ideas for how the training fund could be distributed to schools and colleges?No

Any comments or amendments to be sent to Lynn by 5pm on Thursday 22nd February

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Question 4: Do you know of any examples of areas we can learn from, where they already work in a similar way to the proposal for Mental Health Support TeamsSEAS – a non-profit consortium offering support for children with mild/moderate mental health difficulties. Offering individual evidenced based work and group work (again evidenced based).Venus – offer evidence based IAPT service to children and young people who drop in or who are redirected from CAMHS.Well Young Person Project working with primary pupils to improve social skills, emotional regulation skills and offering group programmes.Question 5: Different organisations could take the lead and receive funding to set up Mental Health Support Teams. Which organisations do you think could take the lead on this? (Rank in order of preference)Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) 3Groups of schools 5Local authorities 4Charity or non-government organisation 2Other………………………………………….. Ring-fenced CCG 1Question 6: Mental Health Support Teams will work and link with a range of other professionals. Please identify the three most important ‘links’ from the list below:Educational psychologists Local authority troubled families teams Local authority children and young people’s services Local authority SEND teams School nurses School-based counsellors Charity or non-government organisation Youth offending teams Other…………………………………………..Question 7: Out of the following options, pick the top three ways to measure the success of the trailblazer phase:Impact on children and young people’s mental health 2Impact on quality of referrals to NHS Children and Young People’s mental Health Services Impact on number of referrals to NHS Children and Young People’s mental Health Services Quality of mental health support delivered in schools and colleges Amount of mental health support delivered in schools and colleges Effectiveness of interventions delivered by Mental Health Support Teams 3Children and young people’s educational outcomes Mental health knowledge and understanding among staff in schools and colleges Young people’s knowledge and understanding of mental health issues, support and self-care Number of children and young people getting the support they need 1Other…………………………………………..Question 8: What factors should we take into account when choosing trailblazer areas? (Rank in order of preference)Deprived areas 2

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Levels of health inequality 1Urban areas 3Rural areas 4Areas where children and young people in the same school/college come under different CCGs 5Other…………………………………………..Question 9: How can we include the views of children and young people in the development of Mental Health Support Teams?Regional or local events to engage young people. Also to link with established young people’s groups. Link with school and colleges perhaps a survey monkey approach as part of consultation. Link with school councils, youth parliament, Young Advisors as well as other groups.Having young people as experts by experience, for example sharing recovery stories and taking a lead on stress awareness workshops.Question 10: Are you aware of any examples of local areas that are reducing the amount of time to receive specialist NHS help for children and young people’s mental health services? Can we learn from these to inform the waiting times pilots?NoQuestion 11: Schools publish policies on behaviour, safeguarding and special educational needs and disability. To what extent do you think this gives parents enough information on the mental health support that schools offer to children and young people?All the information they need Most of the information they need Some of the information they need None of the information they need Don’t know Question 12: How can schools and colleges measure the impact of what they do to support children and young people’s mental wellbeing?Lancaster model pupil health needs profile. Participation needs to be central (akin to service transformation along lines of IAPT). ROMs (Routine Outcome Measures) and access in school. For schools to report on attendance, bullying incidents, staff welfare. Perhaps achievement too, but already too monitored.We think it might be important to do a whole school stress survey.Question 13: How could the Mental Health Support Teams provide better support to vulnerable groups of children and young people?Specialist skills, ROMS, differentiated work. Look at range of support. Need sustainable and consistent teams. Use TAs and mentors. Invest in pastoral work in schools.Question 14: How can we test whether looked after children and previously looked after children can easily access the right support?Corporate Parenting Board performance indicators, social worker data, link with indication on annual reviews. Survey the children. Utilise specialist service for this e.g. Corum.Question 15: How can we test whether children in need who are not in the care system can access support?Percentage of CIN plans with EMHW on them and including interventions on those plans and the impact.

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Question 16: How can we test whether children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities are able to access support?Joined up thinking at SEN level. Individual plans. Special schools specifically targeted and ROMs.

4. CYP Plan update – Priority 4: ensure positive emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people

Dwayne Johnson is leading a refresh on Sefton’s Children and Young People’s Plan and has tasked Julie Murray in Public health to facilitate a short piece of work on Priority 4. She has pulled together a group of people to meet on 9th February to discuss:

Clarification of the current offer/pathway - If we think of universal services (schools, etc.), more targeted services (VCF, counselling, school nurses, etc.) and specialist (CAMHS, etc.), we were wondering if there would be a way of articulating what already exists in each ‘tier’- services, toolkits, activities.

What those current ‘tiers’ look like- who is delivering, doing what, how embedded/ stable/ sustainable are the interventions

What are the needs of young people and the demands/ pressures on the services What are the gaps What are the opportunities- new services/ improved services

Lynn, Lorraine, Vicky and Catherine will be going along to the meeting and would like to include the views of those present today.

The following gaps were identified: Brief interventions for mild to moderate MH needs ADHD and ASC E-Safety Bereavement

Caroline asked that we raise how young people’s voice was to be heard in the refresh.

5. Update from Task & Finish GroupsSelf-harm protocol – Vicky has circulated the refreshed protocol to those who expressed an interest and asked for any comments to be forwarded to her by 20th February

Website – The Emotional Health and Wellbeing Steering Group has taken an interest in this and Lynn is meeting with Communications leads from the Council and CCGs on 20th February to discuss options. It’s hoped a representative from CAMHS Communications will be able to attend. A working group will then be set up to drive it forward.

VK to forward meeting details to CAMHS contact

6. CYP IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies)

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This is the last year of CYP IAPT in terms of training and backfill. It’s thought that the replacement will be something akin to Recruit to Train.

This year Sefton has 2 places on the Autism and Learning Disability specialism and one on the Interpersonal Therapy for Adolescents. There are also a couple of trainees on the Enhanced Evidenced-Based Practice training, working around early help.

CAMHS are currently recruiting for 2 CYP PWP posts (Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner), to be employed by CAMHS but working in the community. There will be another intake in September so Sefton may reapply.

7. Updates from members and Any Other BusinessSamaritans – Bob recently spoke to North Sefton school nurses about what Samaritans can offer to schools and stressed that they work in suicide prevention as well as support after suicide, such as their Step by Step service https://www.samaritans.org/your-community/samaritans-education/step-step . They have worked with a school in Cheshire to create an information page on the school planners that are issued to students (see attached example). He also spoke about the ‘Help a Friend’ scheme, run in partnership with Facebook (see attached)

Winston’s Wish North West – unfortunately the drop-in offered (Salvation Army, Shakespeare Street, Southport) on the last Thursday of each month will not be continuing from April 2018. This is due to a need to consolidate the service in the Greater Manchester area. Families in Sefton and the surrounding areas will not be left without a service from Winston’s Wish. The first port of call for families and professionals who are supporting bereaved children should be the Freephone National Helpline 08088 020 021. Those needing a face-to-face service will be able to access help through the central North West community venues.

Youth Mental Health Forum – Caroline was asked to present on the Forum at the last Emotional Health and Wellbeing Steering Group meeting. The Group would like another big event, perhaps for primary schools this time. She will be working with a smaller group in the interim.

Camhelions – the existing group want to make connections with young people on the CAMHS waiting list to offer peer support and they are currently challenging why case managers get changed halfway through treatment.

Sefton Carers Centre – the Young Carers contract is up and running and the project lead hopes to attend the next meeting

Venus – the new Star Centre timetable is now available (see attached)

CDOP Suicide Prevention subgroup – Lynn explained that a working group is developing the new training at present

Free Resources for schools and colleges – The Mind Set from BBC Bitesize - a national

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peer-to-peer coaching network for GCSE students http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/highlights/curations/zpbdxfr ; Mental Health Conditions Toolkit from the University of the Highlands and Islands – aimed at helping university staff to support students with mental health conditions, it’s a useful resource for everyone http://staffresources.uhi.ac.uk/mhc/ ; Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Secondary Schools from the Anna Freud Centre – this booklet offers practical guidance for schools (see attached)

PABBS evidence-based Suicide Bereavement training - new dates have been added fro this training in Manchester. Costs £250 + VAT per person https://suicidebereavementuk.com/sbuk-training

Child Bereavement UK training – Considering the impact on healthcare professionals when a child dies, 12th March, Manchester, £45 per person https://childbereavementuk.org/for-professionals/our-courses/considering-impact-professionals-child-dies/

Date of next meeting Tuesday 17th April 2018, 4pm to 6pm, Our Place, Sefton Care Leavers Centre,

Brunswick Place, The Esplanade, Waterloo, L22 5RN –joint meeting with the Youth Mental Health Forum

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