Greenfields: Temporary and seperate dual use of the accommodation

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A decision made on 1 April 2020

Ministerial decision reference: MD-H-2020-0006
Decision summary title: The temporary and separate dual use of the Greenfields site as secure care provision and as an adolescent psychiatric in-patient unit for young people.
Decision summary author	Group Director, Children, Young People, Education and Skills Department	Is the decision summary public or exempt?		Public
Report title: The temporary dual use of the accommodation at Greenfields site as two separate units: 1. Secure care for children and young people in terms of the Children (Jersey) Law 2002 and Criminal Justice (Young Offenders) (Jersey) Law 2014. (This is its current use.) 2. CAMHS In-patient Unit for young people.
Report author or name of person giving report	Group Director, Children, Young People, Education and Skills Department	Is the report public or exempt?		Public
Decision and reason for the decision For the Minister for Children and Housing to formally decommission the currently unused unit (four beds) at Greenfields Secure Unit in terms of the definition of Article 1 Children’s (Jersey) Law 2002 to allow the temporary provision of the CAMHS In-patient service to be based in Greenfields. This is an unprecedented situation with the rapid development of the COVID-19 virus resulting in the need to move children and young people who are admitted to Robin Ward in the Jersey General Hospital to an alternative provision to free up medical beds. Furthermore, UK providers that currently take Jersey CAMHS inpatient children and young people have indicated that no placements are available during the current crisis period. Accommodation at Greenfields meets the UK Quality Standards for Inpatient CAMHS (QNIC) provision including keeping children and young people comfortable and safe, there is no other site in Jersey that meets those standards without considerable adaptation. There is no other accommodation that could be ‘stood up’ to meet the timescales of having to establish the unit. It is proposed to repurpose one separate and distinct area of the Greenfields building and run two distinct and separate services on the same site. The layout of the unit provides two distinct units, which allows the different children and young people to be kept separate. The CAMHS In-patient service will be retained under the management and governance arrangements of the Health and Community Services Department. The first (current) unit will remain registered by the Care Commission as secure care for children and young people with provision for up to a maximum of four young people. No young people are affected as a result of the opening of the second unit. The other unit (not currently in use) will operate as a separate in-patient Tier 4 CAMHS provision accommodating up to a maximum of three children up to the age of 18.
Resource implications: There are no resource implications from the decommissioning but there will be resource implications for the setting up of the in-patient unit.
Action required: Once the ministerial decision is signed the unused unit with four secure beds to be formally decommissioned and the CAMHS in-patient unit to be progressed.
Signature			Position Senator Sam Mezec Minister for Children and Housing

Date signed 01/04/2020			Effective date of the decision