Proposed decision
That the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health approve the adoption and implementation of the Perinatal Mental Health and Parent Infant Relationships Strategy.
Reason
The requirement from the Department of Education (DfE) is to ‘establish a local perinatal and parent–infant mental health strategy (with sustainable plans beyond the funding period), to support strategic planning / delivery and joined-up working across the whole system.’
Background
The requirement to develop a co-created Perinatal mental health and parent infant relationships strategy has provided opportunity to bring stakeholders together from across the system, to raise awareness of perinatal mental health, parent infant relationships and identify where there are gaps in knowledge and in support. The strategy has been made available for public consultation for a period of eight weeks February – April 2024.
How the proposed decision supports the Council’s Strategy 2022-26
Securing Kent’s future
The proposed decision aligns with Objective 3 of Securing Kent’s Future:Policy choices and scope of Council’s ambitions
Decision type: Key
Decision status: For Determination
Notice of proposed decision first published: 18/06/2024
Decision due: Not before 17th Jul 2024 by Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health
Reason: To allow 28 day notice period required under Executive Decision regulations
Lead member: Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health
Lead director: Dr Anjan Ghosh
Department: Social Care, Health & Wellbeing
Contact: Wendy Jeffreys, Consultant in Public Health Email: wendy.jeffreys@kent.gov.uk or 03000 416310 Email: wendy.jeffreys@kent.gov.uk.
Consultees
Public Consultation
In February 2024 Kent County Council (KCC) launched a public consultation on two co-created strategies to gain a better understanding of whether the strategies were accessible and presented a vision that was agreed on.
https://letstalk.kent.gov.uk/start-for-life-strategies
Cabinet Committee Consultation
The proposed decision will be discussed at the Health Reform and Public Health Cabinet Committee on 2nd July 2024
Financial implications: To support the delivery of the Family Hub Transformation Programme, Kent County Council (KCC) has received a grant from the Department for Education (DfE) to March 2025 which is to support system transformation including work-force development and enhancement of services
Legal implications: The Council will enter into a number of contractual agreements to support delivery in line with Spending the Council’s Money and Public Contract Regulations 2015.
Equalities implications: Equality Implications A Perinatal mental health and parent infant relationships provided detail of factors that can impact different population groups regards low to moderate perinatal mental health and parent infant relationships. These include emotional and regulation needs on communication; race on access to perinatal mental health support with proposed mitigations outlined. Data Protection implications: General Data Protection Regulations are part of current service documentation for the contract and there is a Schedule of Processing, Personal Data and Data Subjects confirming who is data controller/ processor.