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(CAMHS) and Schools - London Health Programmes

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2.5 Steering group<br />

A steering group was set up <strong>and</strong> chaired by the DfES. It included representation from<br />

the Department of <strong>Health</strong>, DfES, Home Office, <strong>Health</strong>y <strong>Schools</strong> Initiative, Mental<br />

<strong>Health</strong> Foundation, <strong>and</strong> Leicester CBII Project <strong>and</strong> a Head Teacher. Comments were<br />

made on drafts of the reports <strong>and</strong> suggestions for additional materials <strong>and</strong> research<br />

findings. Further consultation at the design stage of the research was conducted with a<br />

voluntary organisation group.<br />

Inevitably, any research will have its limitations which have implications for the<br />

findings. The questionnaires were sent to <strong>CAMHS</strong>, <strong>and</strong> the case studies were selected<br />

from these responses. The <strong>CAMHS</strong> workers identified the schools to be visited. This<br />

may have meant that more influence has come from the health perspective than<br />

schools or LEA perspective.<br />

In general, the response to questions within the questionnaire was high. A few<br />

questions had a low response, including how many schools they worked with, open<br />

questions on the impact their work was having, evaluation details <strong>and</strong> the length of<br />

time they have been working in this way. The impact that this has had on the<br />

analysis is that it has been hard to gauge the scale of the work that each <strong>CAMHS</strong> has<br />

in it’s own area – whether they are working, for example, with all schools in the area<br />

or focusing on a few schools (see section 3.4 below).

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