In that first six months of 2021 West Sussex saw a terrible surge in the mental health needs of our children. We saw widespread despair in some of our young people and services were not equipped to deal with this sudden crisis. We knew that our local authority services would have to adapt and step up with partners to support our children. So, locally we tried something different which was outside of our traditional local authority safeguarding services and provided something more responsive and preventative than our local child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
We set up a triage service working daily in each of the schools. This was a multi-agency team made up of social workers, CAMHS, police, YMCA, nurses, and the local borough council. This service identified those children of concern, shared information and created a plan to support that child.
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