Detention of CYP in Adult Wards - FOI Response Register

1. A copy of the Health Board’s current policy or policies governing the provision of accommodation for children to reside in an in-patient setting due to their mental health (including the placement of children at a place alongside or separately from adults).  Please provide confirmation of when these were last reviewed.

Please see attached, still in draft form, currently undergoing revisions

2. The number of beds available within the geographical area of the Health Board, for children to reside on an in-patient basis due to their mental health, at a place separately from adults.  Please provide the number (out of the maximum available) which were in use, year by year, for the past five calendar years (with an update for 2025 year to date).

0 Inpatient beds in this geographical area.

3. The number of children within the geographical area of the Health Board, residing on an inpatient basis due to their mental health, at a place separately adults.  Please provide the number (out of the maximum available) which were in use, year by year, for the past five calendar years (with an update for 2025 year to date). 

0 Inpatient beds in this geographical area.

4. The number of children within the geographical area of the Health Board, residing on an inpatient basis due to their mental health, at a place alongside adults.  Please provide the number (out of the maximum available) which were in use, year by year, for the past five calendar years (with an update for 2025 year to date). 

There have been no inpatient beds in this geographical area in the last five years.

5. Details of any plans to increase the number of beds available within the geographical area of the Health Board for children to reside at mental health in patient units at a place separately from adults.  The number of beds this will provide and when these will become available.  

There are no plans to create beds in this geographical area.

For the avoidance of doubt, “children” is defined by us in line with Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as amended by Schedule 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 as those under the age of 18. If it is not possible to provide information broken down in this way, please explain why and provide it instead for under 16s.

“Mental health in-patient settings” includes children detained under the mental health act and children resident there on a voluntary or other basis due to their mental health. Please provide a breakdown of the children’s legal status, if possible.

Settings “operated by the Health Board” includes settings operated by or on behalf of the health board within their geographical area.  It does not include children placed in the geographical area of another health board area on behalf of the placing health board. This will avoid double counting.