CAMHS Admissions - Freedom of information requests
Title or Description
CAMHS Admissions
FOI Number
15665
Date Received
04/10/2021
Type of Request
FOI
Request or Question
I make the below request for information under the Freedom of Information Act:Please could you kindly provide details of:1. The number of low secure Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and medium secure CAMHS beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.2. The number of low secure CAMHS beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
3. The number of medium secure CAMHS Service beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
4. The number of welfare social care secure beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions; and
5. The number of forensic secure beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
Further, please could you kindly provide details of:
* The number of young people within your Authority area or Trust area who have been assessed as requiring a CAMHS Tier 4 mental health bed but have not been admitted due to a shortage in resource (we do not require personal details or reasons for the conclusion reached, just numbers).
* The number of young people within your Authority area or Trust area who have been assessed as requiring a CAMHS low secure mental health bed but have not been admitted due to a shortage in resource; and
* The number of children accommodated within your Authority area or Trust area in unapproved, unregulated settings. Please note that this information will be treated with the strictest of confidence and your Authority or Trust will not be identified alongside this information within the final research paper when published.
In the event your Authority or Trust outsource to the private estate, please can you provide details as to the organisation you use so that we may approach them with requests for information.
Response
Scottish Borders Council does not hold the information requested. Therefore we refer to S17 of FOI(S)A 2002 and declare that the information is not held.
Go to Making a Request for information on how to make a request to NHS Borders under FOI(S)A. Please see website link provided below for NHS Borders FOI.
