maternity, children and young peoples commissioning team david coles and karmah boothe
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Maternity, Children and Young Peoples
Commissioning Team
David Coles and Karmah Boothe
Our Services
• Commission Community Health Service for Maternity, Children and Young People– Special Educational Needs / Disability– Maternity– Childrens Community Services– Mental Health services
• Strategic link for Children and Young People services with the ‘health context’
• Work collaboratively with the Local Authority and partner agencies inc. Police, Social Care, Education
Commissioning Arrangements
Work collaboratively to develop strategic / operational approach to commissioning services:• NHS England• Public Health in the Local Authority • Birmingham City Council commissioners
Across a range of service providers including acute and community.
Maternity
Maternity Services• Antenatal Care• Intrapartum Care• Postnatal Care
Bethel Doula Project • Antenatal education and birth preparation
• On-call support as a birth partner
• Supporting clients in developing baby care skills
• Breastfeeding support
• Signposting to key agencies and public services
• Acting as an advocate for the mother, when dealing with key healthcare agencies• A mother’s group after the baby has been born
Disabled Children
• Short breaks provision – Access to facilities in the community – Respite care (Edgewood Rd)
• Equipment service Including third sector organisations being able to use equipment to support access to provision
• Acorns• Action for Children
Community Health Care
• Speech and Language Therapy• Occupational Therapy• Physiotherapy• Special Schools Nursing• Community Paediatricians• Community Childrens Nursing • Paediatric Liaison Service• Looked After Children Services
SEND – Education Health Care Plans
• Replace Statements of SEN• Needs to be completed in partnership with:
– Parents/Children and Young People where possible– Health Care professional(s)– Educational Psychologists– Social Care– Education
• 11 sections that need completing• Local Offer
– http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/send – https://
childrens.mycareinbirmingham.org.uk/special-educational-needs-local-offer.aspx
Vulnerable Families
• Homestart• Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)• Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)• Birmingham Complex Care Panels
Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
• Two voluntary sector organisations currently commissioned
• Collaborative working with local authority/public health commission
• 0- 25 Services– Forward Thinking Birmingham– Early Intervention– Building Capacity – VCS offer
• Headstart
Our 0-25 modelPutting children and young adults at the centre of the new service
Principles and Values :• User Experience• Single access point to the
whole system• Building Capacity• Early Intervention• Integrated Specialist
Teams• Focus on outcomes
Six levels of careFive Care Pathways
Commissioning Intentions
• Specific intentions with individual providers to review / develop services inc community and maternity services
• City wide commissioning approach with partners agencies – Shadow Childrens Joint Commissioning Board
• SEND – key requirements for health• MASH and CSE offer for the City• 0-25 Mental Health developments
Difference to local people
• Remove barrier of accessing statutory provision
• Increased access for groups that are harder to reach
• Understand the communities that they serve• Support wider provision in preventative
approaches that reduces demand on specialist services
What is needed?
• Working together to join agenda’s• Share outcomes and targets• Stronger partnerships between VCS and
health • Adopting an assets based approach – not
always about £££’s
Role for community services
• Partners – working collaboratively• Sharing outcomes• Leverage of additional funding• Working to their strengths• Less following the funding and more doing
what you do best!
‘ It takes a City to raise a child’