Issue - meetings
Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) Project August 2015 to July 2016
Meeting: 16/03/2015 - Cabinet (Item 9)
9 Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) Project August 2015 to July 2016 
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The TaMHS Service is a targeted mental health service providing support for children aged 5 to 16 and their families. The council has had a contract with CNWL (Brent CAMHS) for provision of this service since 2009, when government funding was provided to establish targeted mental health support in schools. This report seeks to award a contract to CNWL without the need for a tender for TaMHS services on the grounds that, on the advice from Brent Clinical Commissioning Group, it would be in the best interests of future service provision to defer retendering to align with the timeline for (and integrate with) the retendering of the CCG’s much larger CAMHS contract.
Decision:
that approval be given to the grant an exemption from the requirement to tender and approve the award of a contract to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (“CNWL”) for Targeted Mental Health in Schools services for a period of 12 months from August 2015 to July 2016, with a view to retendering as part of the wider CAMHS recommissioning in 2016.
Minutes:
Councillor Moher (Lead Member, Children and Young People) introduced the report which sought to award a contract to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust for the targeted mental health service (TaMHS) for the provision of support for children aged 5 to 16 and their families. It was proposed that there was no need for a tender for TaMHS services on the grounds that, on the advice from Brent Clinical Commissioning Group, it would be in the best interests of future service provision to defer retendering to align with the timeline for (and integrate with) the retendering of the CCG’s much larger CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) contract. This was primarily on the grounds that there was considerable value in having the same provider for both services.
Councillor Pavey questioned whether, in the light of the positive impact of the service, additional funding was available for expansion and the Strategic Director undertook to make enquiries.
RESOLVED:
that approval be given to the grant an exemption from the requirement to tender and approve the award of a contract to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (“CNWL”) for Targeted Mental Health in Schools services for a period of 12 months from August 2015 to July 2016, with a view to retendering as part of the wider CAMHS recommissioning in 2016.