❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice addresses the availability of mental health inpatient beds for children and adolescents, revealing data on admissions and future plans for increased capacity, particularly at Joondalup.
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(2) What ages were each child in answer (1) above?
(3) In each of the past three years, how many children or young people below the age of 18 have been admitted to an adult mental health inpatient unit?
(4) What ages were each child or young person in answer (3) above?
(5) What plans does the Government have to increase the number of inpatient beds specifically for children or young people below the age of 18?
(6) Please provide details about where and when these additional beds will become available?
(3) In each of the past three years, how many children or young people below the age of 18 have been admitted to an adult mental health inpatient unit?
(4) What ages were each child or young person in answer (3) above?
(5) What plans does the Government have to increase the number of inpatient beds specifically for children or young people below the age of 18?
(6) Please provide details about where and when these additional beds will become available?
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Answered
11 March 2008
Responded by
Minister for Child Protection representing the Minister for Health
Response time
19 days
(1) Bentley Health Service has two state-wide inpatient units for children and adolescents.
· The Families at Work programme is a residential programme providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of children ages 8-14 years with severe emotional and behavioural problems, generally with prominent "externalising" features (conduct disorder/oppositional/defiant disorder, ADHD) in the context of multisystem dysfunction, who have been unable to benefit significantly from community based interventions.
· The Bentley Adolescent Unit is a state-wide specialised inpatient unit that provides assessment, containment during crises and ongoing management to adolescents.
Over each of the past three years, the number of children below the age of 13 who have been discharged from Bentley Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit are as follows:
Unit
1
2005
2006
2007
2
Family at Work
30
34
28
Bentley Way Centre
0
2
7
Total
3, 4
30
36
34
(2) The age for each child in answer (1) includes:
Age
1
2005
2006
2007
2
< 10 years
7
8
7
10 - 13 years
23
28
27
Total
3, 4
30
36
34
(3) Over each of the past three years, the number of children below the age of 18 who have been discharged from "adult public mental health inpatient units" are as follows:
Adult Public Mental Health Unit
1, 5
2005
2006
2007
2
Total
4
79
40
27
(4) The age for each child in the answer to (3) includes:
Age
1, 5
2005
2006
2007
2
< 15 years
7
4
0
15 years - 18 years
72
36
27
Total
4
79
40
27
1. Data have been compiled based on discharges (separations) rather than admissions.
2. 2007 data is preliminary.
3. Bentley totals may not add up as it is a count of the number of individual persons, rather than episodes of care. A person can be in both units during the year, however, will only be counted once in the Bentley Total.
4. Yearly data cannot be added together as data on an individual person can be included in multiple years.
5. Data includes figures for the Joondalup Mental Health Inpatient Unit.
(5) The WA Metropolitan Clinical Services Framework for health service planning has identified the need for an increase in child and adolescent mental health inpatient beds.
(6) At this stage, Joondalup is the nominated location for a total of 20 additional inpatient beds. The timeline for construction has not been finalised.
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· The Families at Work programme is a residential programme providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of children ages 8-14 years with severe emotional and behavioural problems, generally with prominent "externalising" features (conduct disorder/oppositional/defiant disorder, ADHD) in the context of multisystem dysfunction, who have been unable to benefit significantly from community based interventions.
· The Bentley Adolescent Unit is a state-wide specialised inpatient unit that provides assessment, containment during crises and ongoing management to adolescents.
Over each of the past three years, the number of children below the age of 13 who have been discharged from Bentley Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit are as follows:
Unit
1
2005
2006
2007
2
Family at Work
30
34
28
Bentley Way Centre
0
2
7
Total
3, 4
30
36
34
(2) The age for each child in answer (1) includes:
Age
1
2005
2006
2007
2
< 10 years
7
8
7
10 - 13 years
23
28
27
Total
3, 4
30
36
34
(3) Over each of the past three years, the number of children below the age of 18 who have been discharged from "adult public mental health inpatient units" are as follows:
Adult Public Mental Health Unit
1, 5
2005
2006
2007
2
Total
4
79
40
27
(4) The age for each child in the answer to (3) includes:
Age
1, 5
2005
2006
2007
2
< 15 years
7
4
0
15 years - 18 years
72
36
27
Total
4
79
40
27
1. Data have been compiled based on discharges (separations) rather than admissions.
2. 2007 data is preliminary.
3. Bentley totals may not add up as it is a count of the number of individual persons, rather than episodes of care. A person can be in both units during the year, however, will only be counted once in the Bentley Total.
4. Yearly data cannot be added together as data on an individual person can be included in multiple years.
5. Data includes figures for the Joondalup Mental Health Inpatient Unit.
(5) The WA Metropolitan Clinical Services Framework for health service planning has identified the need for an increase in child and adolescent mental health inpatient beds.
(6) At this stage, Joondalup is the nominated location for a total of 20 additional inpatient beds. The timeline for construction has not been finalised.
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