Publication - Progress report
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: inpatient report
A report recommending improvements to respond better to the needs of children and young people with Learning Disability (LD) and/or autism.
Abbreviations
| ALD | Adult Learning Disability |
| AMH | Adult Mental Health |
| ASD | Autism spectrum disorder |
| CAMH | Child and Adolescent Mental Health |
| CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
| HB | Health Board |
| IP | Inpatient |
| IPCU | Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit |
| LD | Learning disability |
| MH | Mental health |
| NCPIPU | National Child Psychiatry Inpatient Unit |
| NES | NHS Education Scotland |
| NPF | National Planning Forum |
| NSD | National Specialist and Screening Services Directorate of NHS National Services Scotland |
| NSAG | National Services Advisory Group |
| NSSC | National Specialist Services Committee |
| YPU | Young People’s Unit (adolescent mental health inpatient ward) |
Note: 'intellectual disability' has been recently introduced as a diagnostic term to replace 'learning disability'. However, as most Scottish services over the time period of the survey used the term 'learning disability', that term has been retained for the purposes of this report.
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