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This CPD conference focuses on transforming mental health support for children and young people, ensuring early intervention, and ensuring effective interagency working. The conference will look at national developments, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and how CAMHS has had to adapt and innovate to provide effective care, and will also focus on suicide prevention and safeguarding.
Join us for this full-day online conference to hear updates and best practice advice on improving mental health support in schools following the development of NHS mental health support teams which are now in place in around 4,700 schools and colleges across the country, with 287 expert teams offering support to children experiencing anxiety, depression, and other common mental health issues.
1 in 5 children were unhappy with their mental health.
The mental health of children has deteriorated markedly in recent years. As of 2022, the NHS estimates that 18% of children aged 7 to 16 years and 26% of those aged 17 to 19 have a probable mental health disorder, up from 17% in 2021.
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve mental health services for children and young people
- Develop the role of the mental health lead in schools
- Improve early intervention and how schools can work in a preventative way to improve wellbeing and resilience
- Develop your skills in new ways of working children and young people in crisis
- Understand the impact of Covid-19 on children’s mental health and CAMHS services
- Reflect on the lived experience of a young person with lived experience
- Update your knowledge on national developments and learning
- Improve suicide prevention and learning from suicide – including the role of the Suicide and Self Harm competency framework
- Reflecting on CAMHS and Safeguarding including the increasing role of using a contextual safeguarding framework
- Working with multi agencies in improving wellbeing reducing suicide in children and young people
- Supporting the transition from child to adult mental health services
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Supports CPD professional development