National CAMHS Support Service (NCSS)
The National CAMHS Support Service(NCSS) is sponsored by the Department of Health (DH) and Department for Education and Skills (DfES) with the aim of offering additional capacity to support the implementation of a comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The NCSS is part of the Care Services Improvement Partnership Children, Young People and Families national programme, which is delivered in the regions of England.
What is the NCSS?
The NCSS is lead by a national implementation lead (Dawn Rees) who is also part of the interim management team for the CSIP Children, Young People and Families Programme.
The CAMHS workstream within that programme is delivered by team of ten CAMHS Regional Development Workers (RDWs) and one national lead for Black and Minority Ethnic service development.
Each RDW works collaboratively with field forces in Strategic Health Authorities and Government Offices to ensure that targeted support and service improvement is delivered in a coordinated way. The national CAMHS business plan incorporates priorities relating to early intervention and health promotion as well as those dealing with complex and specialist provision. The national business plan is interpreted regionally to ensure that resources are targeted efficiently.
The purpose of the CAMHS programme is to ensure that emotional health and wellbeing services are commissioned and provided in the regions, promoting the delivery of a comprehensive CAMHS and its markers of best practice, and the five outcomes in Every Child Matters.
Every Child Matters
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NSF Standard 9
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NSF Standard 9 Interim Report
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Learning Perspctives from the NCSS
Learning Perpectives from the National Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Improvement Programme: September 2003-December 2006, by Dawn Rees, National CAMHS Implementation Lead.
