December 2012 - IAPT

Children and Young People’s ProjectUpdate from LondonThe past few months have involvedconsiderable change within the collaborative,most significantly, an expansionto 16 partnerships, which include 20CAMHS services, 11 local authoritiesand 13 voluntary sector organisations.Geographically speaking, the collaborativereaches from Cambridge and Hertfordshirein the north to West Sussexin the south, with 14 London boroughsin between. This is in addition to thecoordination needed between two universities!Coordinating this extensiveMap of the London collaborative and partnershipsnetwork of services is a daunting task, but we are developing increasing knowledge and expertise aboutwhat structures we need to make this work, and also strengthening relationships between the partnershipsand universities. This is all coordinated and supported by a full-time project manager. Additionally we areworking closely with London Strategic Health Authority (SHA) in thinking about how to support non-CYPIAPT CAMHS services in preparing for applications next year and/or developing their services in line withIAPT principles. The second-year partnerships have almost completed appointing new members of staff asbackfill for trainees.This expansion has meant a significant enlargement of the Steering Group, which has been reconfiguredfor collaborative problem-solving of specific contemporaneous questions, the biggest of which ishow to implement systems for collecting data from service user feedback and outcome measurementtools which increase efficiency, effectiveness and mobility and bring the 90% target into range. A closesecond is working up a widely feasible solution to the problems faced by partnerships in supportingtheir trainees to bring clinical session video footage to training sessions; we have been working closelywith Meganexus to address this since the summer in anticipation of the second year of therapy traineesstarting in January.We are particularly proud of the developed content and structure of our courses, delivered to the partnershipsjointly by University College London and the Anna Freud Centre, and King’s College London. This isbeing achieved through consultation with students in year 1, our colleagues in collaboratives around thecountry via the centrally coordinated curriculum groups, and based upon our experiences in this first year,which will soon deliver the first trained cohort of therapists. Taking up the opportunities offered by thecentral team to expand training provision, existing expertise within the partnerships is being drawn on todevelop the teaching groups and bring a greater richness of clinical and management experience alongsidethe practical approach of implementation science to provide greater support to service leaders on site.This has included recruiting tutors for the manager course from first-wave partnerships.For more information please see: http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/cyp-iapt7