New Resources for the Children and Young people's IAPT
project announced today (29th February 2012).
The Deputy Prime Minister,
Nick Clegg, and Health Minister Paul Burstow announced today that the
ambitious Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme will receive an extra investment of up to £22
million over the next three years. This is in addition to the £8 million per
year for four years that had previously been secured. The new resources will be used to:
● extend
the geographical reach of the collaboratives
● extend
training to two further therapies that address depression, eating disorders,
self-harm, and conduct problems with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD)
●develop
e-learning packages for professionals.
Key facts about the project can be found here
For the full press release
from the Department of Health click here
The Children and Young People's IAPT project has now announced the details of the offer for 2012-13. Click here for details
Outline
of 2012-13
The Children and Young People's IAPT project will extend the geographical reach
achieved in year one by offering the service transformation, parenting for 3 -
10 year olds and CBT training and support package by:
- Offering the opportunity to join one of the three existing collaboratives, the HEIs for which are based in Reading, Salford and London, to CAMHS partnerships
- Seeking an extra collaborative in an area that cannot easily reach the current collaboratives.
There will be separate processes to recruit new partnerships and recruit a new collaborative and CAMHS Partnerships will need to chose one or the other process. The Project is particularly keen to maintain the focus on participation and to encourage voluntary sector organisations to make contact with their CAMHS partnership and explore how their staff could be included. The closing date is 23rd April 2012. Please ensure you sign up for email updates here
The Children and Young People's IAPT project is a new strand within the overall IAPT Programme. The Government has committed to expanding IAPT to meet the needs of children and young people with a project starting in 2011-12.
The Children and Young People's (CYP) IAPT Project is a Service Transformation Project for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)The focus of CYP IAPT is on extending training to staff and service managers in CAMHS and embedding evidence based practice across services, making sure that the whole service, not just the trainee therapists, use session by session outcome monitoring.
CYP IAPT is different to the Adult IAPT programme CYP IAPT is not creating new standalone services. Although the CYP IAPT project sits within the overall IAPT programme, and has learned from the adult experience, it is not the same. It works with existing services and established local systems.
In Year One, CYP IAPT has supported training in two modalities. The choice of CBT and Parenting for 3-10 year olds was based on best evidence (NICE) and the prevalence of emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression and behavioural problems in children and young people.
A comprehensive CAMHS needs a range of modalities and interventions CBT and parenting programmes are not the answer to all mental health problems experienced by children and young people. There are also other evidence based treatments and approaches which contribute to a comprehensive CAMHS which commissioners and services will want to see available to children and young people.
CYP IAPT is developing session by session outcome monitoring This will be used by CYP IAPT Trainees, and can also be used from the word go by colleagues in targeted and specialist (Tiers 2 and 3) community services locally. The aim of the session by session monitoring is to support collaborative practice and demonstrate the outcomes CAMHS achieves. The approach being trialled will be reviewed in July 2012 with the aim of rolling out to all community CAMHS in the IAPT sites in December 2012. Read more here
CYP IAPT aims to fit the measure to the child not the child into the measure CYP IAPT measures are designed to offer clients and professionals options which suit need and practice. There will be occasions when clinicians judge that session by session outcome monitoring is not appropriate.
CYP IAPT works in partnership with children and young people Children and young people are involved at a national level to help steer the project, and each of the sites is committed to working with children and young people locally, listening to their wished and preferences.
CYP IAPT has a budget of £8M per year for 4 years. (2011/12-14/15) We are starting small to test our models of training and outcome monitoring, learning as we go. The £32M budget is non recurrent.
Three Learning Collaboratives have been funded so far from (Higher Education Institutions (HEIS) and local CAMHS Partnerships to take forward CYP IAPT. The Learning Collaboratives provide the training and mutual support for Service Managers, Supervisors and Trainees who will put the service transformation into action.
CYP IAPT is open to the voluntary and statutory services The Training is competency based and is open to non NHS trainees, supervisors and managers. The Training Institutions will check if the trainees are competent to pass the course.
Some elements of CYP IAPT will change as the project develops The project is committed to service transformation, training in CBT and Parenting. Other aspects such as how sessions are monitored or adding extra modalities will be reviewed as we go forward.
Local CAMHS partnerships will have the opportunity to bid to join the collaboratives in early 2012 . We are developing the year two process over the next few months. Further support materials are in development and will be posted to this site in due course.
To download these key facts a PDF click here
To sign up for project updates, click here and select Children and Young People`s Project updates
