Partnership Commissioning Unit - Community based emotional and mental well-being support for children and young people in school and community settings

The Partnership Commissioning Unit (PCU) on behalf of the Four CCGs that are based in North Yorkshire; Harrogate and Rural District CCG, Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby CCG, Scarborough and Ryedale CCG and Vale of York CCG are collaborating on this project with North Yorkshire County Council and City of York Council.

Future in Mind, published in March 2015 set out the national ambition for emotional and mental health services for children and young people. In response, all CCGs have prepared Transformation Plans, setting out how they will fulfil that ambition by 2020. A priority theme within the Plans is promotion of good emotional and mental health in schools, and early intervention where problems begin to manifest, in order to prevent illness developing or escalating to the stage where specialist CAMHS support is required. The Plans for the four CCGs include a project to assign a professional mental health support worker to all school clusters or groups and to liaise closely with GP practices as named mental health support worker in North Yorkshire and the City of York (NYY), under a contract to March 2020.

A full service specification will be issued with tender documents. Before the commencement of a formal procurement process, the Commissioners would like to better understand the provider market, the perceived deliverability of the project locally, and the options available to develop the service in a new environment (primarily schools and primary care settings).

North Yorkshire administrative County is the largest local government administrative area in England, encompassing 3000 square miles, and with a population of 601,500 (of which 134,000 are under 18), resident both in larger towns of Harrogate, Scarborough and Northallerton, and also with some very rural areas with some of the lowest population densities in England. The City of York has a population of 200,000, of which 38,700 are under 18.

Aims of the service:

The service is focused on promotion of good emotional and mental health, prevention of illness developing, and early intervention when difficulties become apparent:

Additional information: To participate please complete and return the questionnaire located in the attachment area of Project No: 20232, PQQ_ 29219. on the NHS Sourcing Portal www.nhssourcing.co.uk

If you are happy to share any electronic copies of any documents you feel would enhance the responses you have provided, you can attach these to your response.

Feel free to answer some or all of the questions as appropriate and relevant to you by the deadline 11:00 Thursday 28 January 2016.