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<p>As part of improving transparency, all Local Transformation Plans must be published
locally and made widely available.</p><br /><p>NHS England’s guidance <em>Local Transformation
Plans for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing - Guidance and support
for local areas</em> is explicit about the need to promote equality and address health
inequalities, and states that plans should ‘address the full spectrum of need including
children and young people who have particular vulnerability to mental health problems
for e.g. those with learning disabilities, looked after children and care leavers,
those at risk or in contact with the Youth Justice System, or who have been sexually
abused and/or exploited’.</p><br /><p>The assurance process requires local areas to
evidence how they are meeting the needs of vulnerable groups including looked after
children and children who have experienced abuse.</p><br /><p>An analysis of Local
Transformation Plans has been commissioned and will include a thematic review of how
the mental health needs of children and young people in vulnerable groups have been
addressed.</p><br /><p>As set out in the guidance for Local Transformation Plans an
integral part of the locally developed Children and Young People’s Mental Health Transformation
Plans includes a tracking template that sets out local progress milestones and financial
spend. This tracker will be used as the basis for assurance assessment in 2015/16
and from 2016/17 onwards progress on local transformation will become part of the
mainstream planning assurance process.</p><br /><p>Local Transformation Plansrequire
all key partners in a local area to agree how best to meet the mental health needs
of children and young people in their local populations. 122 Local Transformation
Planshave been developed that cover all 209 clinical commissioning groups.</p><br
/><p>The assurance process for Local Transformation Plans for Children and Young People’s
Mental Health and Wellbeing was undertaken by NHS England regional teams and included
assurance against each plan of standard self-assessment and tracker templates to enable
a comparison of plans against objective success criteria.</p><br /><p>NHS England
have commissioned a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Local Transformation
Plans, in order to support policy makers, local commissioners and services to understand
and use the data that is contained within the plans to drive further improvements.
Local Transformation Plans will be reviewed from a narrative, analytical and financial
perspective, with thematic reviews carried out in key focus areas that align with
<em>Future in mind </em>principles.</p><br />
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