Redbridge's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are set to expand following a Regulation 28 notice issued by His Majesty's Coroner for East London. The Redbridge Health and Wellbeing Board received an update on the response to the notice at a meeting on 17 November 2025.
The Regulation 28 notice was issued to the North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) in August 2023, following the inquest into the death of a 12-year-old, referred to as AA in meeting documents. The inquest found that the cause of death was “…a result of suicide, contributed to by neglect…'' and that these failings took place in the context of a very under-resourced Emotional Wellbeing Mental Health Service (EWMHS
). A Regulation 28 notice is issued by a coroner to prevent future deaths.
According to the Public reports pack for the meeting, additional investment, initially via Physical Capacity (Winter Pressures) funding and local CAMHS allocations, has enabled North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) to expand their clinical capacity for Redbridge CAMHS and to reduce existing waiting time backlogs.
As part of the expansion, three new 'Community CAMHS' clinical roles have been created. These roles are designed to ensure that primary care within Redbridge has direct and early access to a dedicated CAMHS professional without the requirement for a full referral. These clinicians are scheduled to be in place in autumn 2025.
NELFT is also establishing a dedicated role to give Mental Health Support Team (MHST) staff immediate and direct access to a CAMHS professional without the requirement for a full referral. The role will also act as a CAMHS 'advice and guidance' provision for MHST staff.
The circumstances of the Regulation 28 Notice also required a review of capacity within the Redbridge Community Continence Level 2 service and how referrals were made to that provision. NELFT are working to consolidate Community Continence Level 2 services across Waltham Forest and Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) to distribute resources in a more equitable way, bringing additional capacity into Redbridge. There has also been a roll out of specialist continence workshops across 0-19 services (Health Visiting and School Nursing) to assist those delivering Tier 1 continence support. Additional capacity into the community service has been secured (via use of the additional recurrent investment into Complex Pathways) with an extension of the Continence Assistant Practitioner role, allowing for a faster triage of Tier 2 continence referrals and identification of those cases requiring immediate review.
The update was part of a larger discussion at the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting, which also included updates on social care and health systems, safeguarding partnership annual reports, and the Better Care Fund. The board also received the Redbridge Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2024-25 and the Redbridge Safeguarding Adult Board Annual Report 2024-25.
The agenda for the meeting also included verbal updates on public health, adult social care and community health, the Redbridge Borough Partnership, the voluntary and community sector, and BHRUT Hospitals.
