A new guide has been issued to local councillors, setting out what they need to know about mental health and autism services for children in their area.
The guide, called Difference in mind, aims to help council’s overview and scrutiny committees to find out how child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are supporting children with autism in their area.
The guidance was issued as part of The National Autistic Society’s You Need To Know campaign, and was produced in partnership with the Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS).
NAS and CfPS hope the overview and scrutiny committees will use the report to run a scrutiny review to look at how CAMHS are working in their area, and to look at what can be improved.
The report can be downloaded from the CfPS website.
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I’ve been a journalist for more than a decade now, writing about a range of topics in that time. I started editing Learning Disability Today and Mental Health Today last year, having spent several years previously writing about social care.
I’m passionate about social care, learning disabilities and mental health. Social care is such a vast and interesting field with great human stories at every turn. Trying to tell these stories, as well as getting to the heart of big issues, such as personalisation and the ramifications of the current spending cuts, is what motivates me.
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