1. NYCC adult mental health engagement event

2. Aims of today:
To provide you with information about North Yorkshire County Council’s Social Care Mental Health Review, and what this will mean for mental health services in North Yorkshire
To provide you with details of what will be happening as part of the review, and how people can get involved
Provide an opportunity for you to have your say on what you think is working well and what we could improve

3. What is NYCC Health and Adult Services doing about mental health?
Health and Adult Services Social Care mental health review- aim to develop proposals for what an adult social care mental health offer should look like for North Yorkshire
NYCC delivers a number of statutory and non-statutory services, as part of secondary care mental health, in partnership with Mental health trusts (TEWV and BDCT for Craven). Also commissions local VCS organisations to deliver some support.
Signed up to delivery of NY Mental Health Strategy- ‘Hope, Control and Choice.’
Partner in delivery of local mental health improvement programmes (Crisis Care Concordat, Future in Mind).

4. HAS Social Care Mental Health Review
Why?
Review required of partnership arrangements with health trusts
Contracts with VCS due to end, and requirement to go out to competitive tendering exercise.
Future model will consider what the best balance is between what is delivered directly by the Council, and which will be delivered by organisations on it’s behalf
In-house services
Commissioned services

5. Review of services delivered by NYCC
Service and support delivered by NYCC includes Mental Health Act assessments, advocacy, recovery support and support for carers.
Delivered in partnership with local health trusts
Arrangements need to reviewed so that services are line with requirements (including the Care Act, 2014) and meet the needs of people in North Yorkshire.
Key work programmes- Recovery, AMHP, workforce.
Timescales

6. VCS commissioned services
9 VCS contracts within scope of review
All contracts currently due to end 30th Sept Current annual investment £367k pa.
CCG’s also provide some funding.
Provide a range of community-based support.
Eligibility: mixture of open access/accessing secondary mental health services

7. Support provided by VCS community contracts
Mental Health Resource Centres
Social Inclusion
Employment support
Peer support
Outdoor activities

8. Developing a future offer:
Service reviews
Engagement
Needs assessment
Looking at what’s working well/been proven to work well

9. What should be included as part of the future offer?
Early intervention and prevention
Long-term support
Housing support
Employment, education and training support
Crisis support/response
Recovery Model
Peer support
Carers support

10. Group discussions
What is currently working well with mental health support and services in this locality?
Picture an ideal mental health support system for North Yorkshire. What would this look like?
What could we do differently to move towards an ideal mental health support system?
What actions need to be taken to achieve this?

11. Group discussions feedback

12. Next steps Further engagement activities- Sept & Oct 2017
Development of model options – Nov-Dev 17
Consultation early 2018 (dates TBC)