FOI request (FOIR-367465800)

Mental health and secure beds

Requested Mon 04 October 2021
Responded  Fri 08 October 2021

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.

5. The number of forensic secure beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.

6. 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).

7. 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.

8. 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.

Response

Information not held

This area id dealt with by East Sussex County Council Children's services, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk