Children's Service Mapping

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Durham University Mapping Unit

CAMHS - A summary of national trends

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1 Local and wider than local teams

This table shows the catchment area that the CAMHS teams are commissioned to provide to. National/regional catchments are for services that deliver to a SHA/regional area(s) or nationally. A local service is one that is contracted to provide to a defined area that is within a provider boundary. Localities are subdivisions of PCT and LA areas, which will be known in some places as neighbourhoods or districts.
Strategic Health Authority Local caseload Wider team caseload Regional/national catchment area Local authority/ PCT catchment Sub LA/PCT area (e.g. localities or districts or neighbourhoods)
East Midlands 8875 126 62 62 62
East of England 11608 103 103 103 103
London 20935 2626 248 248 248
North East 7536 222 75 75 75
North West 15288 701 169 169 169
South Central 9957 494 80 80 80
South East Coast 8795 129 58 58 58
South West 8644 289 83 83 83
West Midlands 11902 456 90 90 90
Yorkshire and the Humber 8731 350 88 88 88
No English region defined
0 0 1 1 1
Total
112271 5496 1057 1057 1057

2 Changes to how teams were mapped

This table shows whether teams were new to the mapping exercise in each year of collection, or whether there have been changes to the service/teams.
Strategic Health Authority No changes to teams mapped Newly resourced New to mapping but existed in previous year New team configuration Mapped differently in previous year
East Midlands 49 2 2 5 3
East of England 75 9 2 7 9
London 210 9 4 9 10
North East 64 2 4 3 1
North West 136 9 1 11 4
South Central 64 6 2 3 0
South East Coast 46 2 1 3 3
South West 62 3 2 9 8
West Midlands 80 4 0 0 6
Yorkshire and the Humber 77 1 1 3 1
No English region defined
7 2 3 0 0
Total
870 49 22 53 45

3 Number of teams by team type

This table shows number of CAMHS teams by by team type. The team type classifications are as follows:

Generic team: Generic multi-disciplinary teams are made up of CAMHS professionals from a number of disciplines who work together to ensure integrated provision. Generic single disciplinary team: Generic single disciplinary teams are single disciplinary groups of staff who provide a range of therapeutic interventions.

Targeted team: These teams provide for children with particular problems or requiring particular types of therapeutic intervention.

Dedicated worker teams: Dedicated workers are fully trained CAMHS professionals who are out-posted in teams that are not specialist CAMHS teams but have a wider function, such as a youth offending team or a generic social work children's team.

Tier 4 teams: These services provide longer term or more intensive provision. This may take the form of whole- or half-day activities, in-patient care, or outreach support (such as emergency or after care) which is considered an alternative to in-patient care. Some may provide more than one of these types of care.

Strategic Health Authority Generic teams No. Targeted Teams No. Dedicated Teams No. Tier 4 Special Care Teams
East Midlands 31 23 2 6
East of England 48 35 11 8
London 87 87 35 35
North East 42 20 3 10
North West 71 65 9 19
South Central 44 20 7 8
South East Coast 31 11 12 2
South West 39 22 13 11
West Midlands 35 28 18 9
Yorkshire and the Humber 39 22 16 9
No English region defined
5 3 5 1
Total
472 336 131 118

4 Total staff by team type

This table shows the number of teams and full time equivalent (fte) workforce by team type. The team type classifications are as follows:

Generic multi-disciplinary team: Generic multidisciplinary teams are made up of CAMHS professionals from a number of disciplines who work together to ensure integrated provision.

Generic single disciplinary team: Generic single disciplinary teams are single disciplinary groups of staff who provide a range of therapeutic interventions.

Targeted team: These teams provide for children with particular problems or requiring particular types of therapeutic intervention.

Dedicated worker teams: Dedicated workers are fully trained CAMHS professionals who are out-posted in teams that are not specialist CAMHS teams but have a wider function, such as a youth offending team or a generic social work children's team.

Tier 4 teams: These services provide longer term or more intensive provision. This may take the form of whole- or half-day activities, in-patient care, or outreach support (such as emergency or after care) which is considered an alternative to in-patient care. Some may provide more than one of these types of care.

Strategic Health Authority Current total staff (fte) No. Generic (multi) Teams Generic (multi) Staff (fte) No. Generic (single) Teams Total Generic (single) Staff (fte) No. Targeted Teams Total Targeted Staff (fte) No. Dedicated Teams Total Dedicated Staff (fte) No. Tier 4 Special Care Teams Total Tier 4 Special Care Staff (fte) Population 0-171
East Midlands 691.000 24 376.750 7 24.270 23 168.650 2 14.300 6 107.030 9.299
East of England 1055.720 41 612.250 7 34.440 35 155.160 11 67.000 8 186.870 12.210
London 2347.871 84 1172.150 3 10.300 87 403.075 35 68.120 35 694.226 16.306
North East 1077.700 33 451.840 9 34.820 20 218.850 3 31.100 10 341.090 5.431
North West 1650.365 61 761.510 10 70.250 65 355.625 9 19.800 19 443.180 15.342
South Central 895.655 40 492.665 4 4.740 20 111.180 7 14.300 8 272.770 8.767
South East Coast 621.865 30 395.855 1 2.130 11 74.100 12 84.470 2 65.310 9.174
South West 843.802 34 518.002 5 22.905 22 79.295 13 19.740 11 203.860 10.599
West Midlands 1416.975 28 776.410 7 97.630 28 229.695 18 47.070 9 266.170 12.138
Yorkshire and the Humber 886.173 35 536.658 4 18.785 22 83.020 16 94.360 9 153.350 11.218
No English region defined
47.872 2 27.972 3 3.200 3 7.200 5 9.500 1 0.000 0.000
Total
11534.998 412 6122.062 60 323.470 336 1885.850 131 469.760 118 2733.856 110.483
  1. ONS Mid-year estimates 2005 in 100ks Could not restrict by Service Category.

5 Team type of newly resourced teams

This table shows the team type of newly resourced teams.

Generic multi-disciplinary team: Generic multidisciplinary teams are made up of CAMHS professionals from a number of disciplines who work together to ensure integrated provision.

Generic single disciplinary team: Generic single disciplinary teams are single disciplinary groups of staff who provide a range of therapeutic interventions.

Targeted team: These teams provide for children with particular problems or requiring particular types of therapeutic intervention.

Dedicated worker teams: Dedicated workers are fully trained CAMHS professionals who are out-posted in teams that are not specialist CAMHS teams but have a wider function, such as a youth offending team or a generic social work children's team.

Tier 4 teams: These services provide longer term or more intensive provision. This may take the form of whole- or half-day activities, in-patient care, or outreach support (such as emergency or after care) which is considered an alternative to in-patient care. Some may provide more than one of these types of care.

Strategic Health Authority Newly resourced Generic - Multi Newly resourced Generic - Single Newly resourced Targeted Newly resourced Dedicated Newly resourced Tier 4
East Midlands 0 1 1 0 0
East of England 2 0 4 1 2
London 1 0 6 1 1
North East 0 0 1 0 1
North West 1 0 6 0 2
South Central 4 1 1 0 0
South East Coast 0 0 0 2 0
South West 0 0 3 0 0
West Midlands 0 0 3 1 0
Yorkshire and the Humber 0 0 0 1 0
No English region defined
0 0 2 0 0
Total
8 2 27 6 6

6 CAMHS teams contributing to on-call response

This table shows the number of CAMHS teams (by team type) contributing to an on-call emergency response.
Strategic Health Authority Number of Generic Multi Teams with on-call Number of Generic Single Teams with on-call Number of Targeted Teams with on-call Number of Dedicated Worker Teams with on-call Number of Tier 4 Teams with on-call
East Midlands 20 0 10 0 3
East of England 28 0 9 3 7
London 55 1 19 1 31
North East 24 1 3 1 6
North West 37 0 10 0 12
South Central 28 0 13 3 4
South East Coast 26 0 3 0 2
South West 23 0 3 1 7
West Midlands 16 0 4 3 7
Yorkshire and the Humber 20 0 12 3 7
Total
277 2 86 15 86

7 Teams with specialist learning disability provision

This table shows the number of teams providing a specialist learning disability service and whether the team accepts children and young people with moderate and severe learning disabilities.
Strategic Health Authority Does this CAMHS team provide a specialist learning disability service? : Yes Does this CAMHS team provide a specialist learning disability service? : No Does this CAMHS team provide a specialist learning disability service? : Not Applicable In what way is it specialist? : Accept children and young people with moderate and severe learning disabilities In what way is it specialist? : Other
East Midlands 15 34 12 10 0
East of England 18 76 6 18 0
London 43 173 14 39 0
North East 14 34 19 14 0
North West 43 69 11 35 0
South Central 19 25 30 19 0
South East Coast 7 42 7 6 0
South West 26 50 3 24 0
West Midlands 21 56 10 17 0
Yorkshire and the Humber 16 46 8 15 0
Total
222 605 120 197 0

8 Outcome assessment scales

This table shows the outcome measures used by CAMHS teams.

SDQ: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires

CGAS (Children's Global Assessment Scale)

HoNOSCA (Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents

CHI-ESQ (Commission for Health Improvement Experience of Service Questionnaire)

Strategic Health Authority SDQ for parents : Beginning of treatment SDQ for parents : Six months into treatment SDQ for parents : End of treatment SDQ for children : Beginning of treatment SDQ for children : Six months into treatment SDQ for children : End of treatment CHI-ESQ for parents : Beginning of treatment CHI-ESQ for parents : Six months into treatment CHI-ESQ for parents : End of treatment CHI-ESQ for children : Beginning of treatment CHI-ESQ for children : Six months into treatment CHI-ESQ for children : End of treatment CGAS for practitioners : Beginning of treatment CGAS for practitioners : Six months into treatment CGAS for practitioners : End of treatment HoNOSCA : Beginning of treatment HoNOSCA : Six months into treatment HoNOSCA : End of treatment
East Midlands 40 26 36 41 27 37 21 22 32 22 22 31 26 17 26 30 22 30
East of England 49 39 43 54 43 47 16 25 21 13 22 21 41 32 37 18 9 17
London 153 109 137 150 104 133 20 40 59 16 41 51 138 113 131 54 38 51
North East 25 7 25 46 28 46 3 1 18 23 22 39 6 4 6 45 30 42
North West 87 41 83 89 44 85 33 17 64 36 19 63 54 27 53 33 27 33
South Central 46 37 44 49 39 46 14 12 22 14 11 21 49 40 47 13 5 10
South East Coast 35 25 26 38 28 29 3 3 4 3 3 4 17 14 15 6 1 6
South West 48 34 41 52 35 39 11 14 14 12 16 15 32 25 29 20 15 19
West Midlands 48 36 45 46 36 42 9 13 22 8 13 19 16 15 17 23 16 23
Yorkshire and the Humber 41 30 39 37 26 34 12 12 32 6 6 20 19 18 16 6 3 5
Total
572 384 519 602 410 538 142 159 288 153 175 284 398 305 377 248 166 236

9 Types of targeted CAMHS team

Strategic Health Authority ASD and Aspergers1 No. Targeted Teams Abuse ADHD Eating disorder Teams targeting mental health service for young offenders Paediatric liaison Self harm Targeted social services/LAC teams Mental health with mod/sev learning disability including Down's syndrome Substance misuse Other
East Midlands 0 23 0 1 0 2 3 1 3 4 2 5
East of England 0 35 1 3 1 4 3 1 6 7 1 5
London 2 87 2 3 1 4 5 1 10 12 6 31
North East 0 20 0 2 1 2 0 0 5 5 1 1
North West 1 65 1 1 2 2 2 0 14 15 2 20
South Central 1 20 0 0 0 2 2 1 4 3 0 5
South East Coast 0 11 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 0 4
South West 0 22 1 0 0 1 0 1 5 2 1 8
West Midlands 5 28 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 5 0 6
Yorkshire and the Humber 0 22 1 1 1 4 2 0 6 3 2 2
No English region defined
0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Total
9 336 6 11 7 23 17 5 66 61 15 88
  1. Autisitc Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

10 Age range of services

The age range classification used is not uniform but tries to capture as many as possible of the relevant age bandings used. More than one age band may be selected by any service and no attempt is made to apportion effort between the age bands (except for CAMHS services/teams) so it is not appropriate to try to apportion staff between the age bands. Instead this graph shows the number of services that have indicated that they provide for the age ranges shown.