Aimed at service commissioners within local authorities and primary care trusts, the guidance stresses the need for a local CAMHS champion and promotes a shared vision and a common understanding of young people's mental health by all partner organisations, strong leadership and accountability, training and evaluation, and a local needs assessment.
Budget problems in primary care trusts and barriers between different professions have hampered the development of comprehensive child and adolescent mental health services, according to the charity.
Lee Miller, training and consultancy manager at YoungMinds, said: "There have been significant funding problems for health services so a lot of areas have cut back on CAMHS funding. This has caused problems with partnerships because partners are holding their budgets tightly to their chests."
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