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Report CS17099

Bromley Y had been awarded the contract for the Bromley Community Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People for a period of three years commencing 1st December 2014 to 30th November 2017. The contract permitted a two year extension beyond November 2017, subject to satisfactory contract monitoring and service delivery.

This service had introduced a new delivery model for children and young people’s mental well-being provision which was now embedding. Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) was supporting the Council’s investment by providing additional investment to enhance the service provision. The report provided evidence and rationale to support an extension to the contract for a two year period commencing 1 December 2017 and terminating on 30 November 2019.

Members of the Executive queried whether the CCG was contributing to the service as the report indicated that the CAMHS service was benefiting from the LBB contract. This had been discussed previously with the CCG; however in the absence of relevant data agreement had not been reached. The data was now available and so the discussion would be picked up again. The CCG had separately contributed some extra funding to Bromley Y to strengthen the links between Bromley Y and Oxleas services utilising additional funding for CAMHS which had been made available to CCGs. There was still time for negotiation with the CCG as the current contract ran until December 2017, and a further report would be made to Members in the summer; if necessary, a contract variation could be effected to better reflect the Council’s funding responsibilities.

The report had been scrutinised by the Care Services PDS Committee on 10^th January 2017; the Committee had supported the recommendations.

RESOLVED that the current service outcomes be noted and an extension to the existing contract with Bromley Y be agreed for a two year period commencing on 1^st December 2017, subject to further report back on funding issues.

(During consideration of this item Councillor Stephen Carr declared a non-pecuniary interest as his daughter was involved in mentoring.)

Report CS17099

The Portfolio Holder introduced a report outlining the proposed extension to the Bromley Community Wellbeing Service for children and young people delivered by Bromley Y.

Following a joint review by the Local Authority and Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group of all child and adolescent mental health services, Bromley Y had been awarded the contract for the Bromley Community Wellbeing Service for children and young people for a period of three years from 1^st December 2014 to 30^th November 2017, with the potential to extend the contract for a further two years.  This provision introduced a new model that provided a clear care pathway into wellbeing and mental health services through a ‘single point of access’ with an expectation that children and young people were contacted and initially assessed within 72 hours being referred.  The service had been assessed as representing good value for money and had supported a reduction in referrals to costly specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services through its early intervention work.  As the commissioned service had been enhanced by Bromley Y’s resources to the extent that the demand for the service was now over the level that the commissioned provision could support, Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group had agreed to contribute additional resources to enable the service to continue to be sustainable for the immediate future.  It was therefore requested that the existing contract be extended for a further two year period from 1^st December 2017 to 30^th November 2019.

In considering the report the Chairman emphasised the excellent work being undertaken through this service and that it was recognised as an example of best practice on a regional and national level.

RESOLVED that the Council’s Executive be recommended to:

1)  Note the current service outcomes; and,

2)  Agree an extension to the existing contract with Bromley Y for a two year period from 1^st December 2017 to 30^th November 2019.