Di Barnes has left the post as manager of the Children’s Mapping Services team, as she shall be retiring in the near future, however we are delighted to say that she is to remain as an advisor to the project. We would like to thank Di for all her hard work on the mapping programme over the years and wish her well for the future.
The project is now being directed by Neville Hallam, who started in post in June, having moved from elsewhere in the University.
The 2008/09 Child Health, Maternity and CAMHS Atlas is now available to download as an internet publication only.
Between 2006 and 2009 an annual report or ‘atlas’ has been published to present the results of the child health, child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) and maternity service mapping exercise. For the first 3 years the atlas was structured around the standards of the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services but in 2009, the report focused on key services areas highlighted in the children and young people’s health, Healthy lives, brighter futures. These were:
The atlas is a national report but some data are presented regionally at the level of strategic health authority.
It should be noted that children’s services mapping is a voluntary exercise and response rates, although consistently high, vary each year. As no attempt is made to compensate for this in the atlas time series data in this report should be treated with particular caution. The data trends reported may be due to changes in the number of respondents participating in the exercise and submitting data rather than actual change to services, staffing and investment.
You can download previous Atlases on our publications page.
Data from the 2009/2010 collection is now available to download. From the results tab, you can click on a topic you are interested in, then choose to either browse the data by selecting specific tables, or download the full report.
Each report has buttons that allow you to download the the data in PDF or Excel format.
Please note that the reports are currently being reviewed and are subject to change. CSM is a voluntary exercise in which each LA chooses the scope of services mapped. This means that the data reported should be regarded as a work in progress and may not be complete.
On Tuesday 20th April we provided an induction day for two, newly appointed, ChiMat Regional Leads; Lynn Deacon, regional lead for the North West and Natalie Cantillon, regional lead for the East Midlands. Whilst the day’s main purpose was to help familiarise Lynn and Natalie with the processes involved in the Children’s Services Mapping exercise, it was also an opportunity to familiarise ourselves with one another.
The day began with an overview of the Children’s Services Mapping exercise, including the processes, people, and timescales involved etc. Having successfully bombarded Lynn and Natalie with a wealth of information, it was soon time to take a well deserved lunch break which members of the CSM team also attended for a chat.
Finally, before they could make their long journeys back home, we squeezed in a shorter afternoon session which looked at the reporting of the data collected and the tools available to access and use it.
All in all, the day went well… we think! The team enjoyed meeting Lynn and Natalie, and it was nice to be able to put faces to the names which will no doubt become even more familiar in the coming months.
On the 18th of March, the team headed down to the Royal Hotel at York for the ChiMat 2010 conference. ChiMat and CSM ran a joint IT workshop introducing the reporting tools available on the ChiMat and CSM websites, and delegates had the opportunity to try out the tools for themselves.
The team were also involved in two other workshops, ‘Intelligence on Children’s Trusts’ and the ‘London Breastfeeding Mapping Project’. All of the presentations can be downloaded from the ChiMat website.