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CAMHS National Summit 2024: Transforming Mental Health Services for Children & Young Adults

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

Hallam Conference Centre, London, OR Virtual, Online

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This national conference focuses on transforming mental health services for children and young people, ensuring early intervention, and developing integrated services with clear care pathways from first intervention to crisis and inpatient care. The conference will look at national developments, using quality improvement methodology to address waiting times and demand, and will also focus on suicide prevention and safety, self harm, co-production involvement of children and families in CAMHS, and inter-agency working and access to services.

The conference will include a workshop focusing on improving mental health support in school 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.

"The welcome progress that has been made in recent years on improving children’s access to the right support is struggling to keep up with this demand – with waiting times increasing in the first time in years. It is vital that this support is made available because to allow children the chance to recover, and go on to achieve all that they want to, but also because without support things can end up in crisis."

Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner March 2023

"Access to timely treatment is vital. Without the right care at the right time, children can end up in crisis... Every child should be supported to have good mental health, from the earliest years of their life through to adulthood. To achieve this will need the right combination of preventative efforts to address the determinants of poor mental health, alongside early and appropriate intervention."

Children’s Mental Health Services 2021-22, Children’s Commissioner March 2023

This conference will enable you to:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to improve mental health services for children and young people

  • Reflect on the lived experience of a young person with lived experience

  • Learn from outstanding practice in transforming CAMHS

  • Update your knowledge on national developments and learning including how we can improve accessibility and waiting times

  • Learn from the system-wide independent investigation into concerns and issues raised relating to the safety and quality of CAMHS provision

  • Understand how quality improvement techniques can be embedded into CAMHS services 

  • Improve early intervention and working with schools in a preventative way to improve wellbeing and resilience

  • Develop your skills in new ways of working with children and young people in crisis

  • Improve suicide prevention and learning from suicide – including the role of the Suicide and Self Harm competency framework, and the 2022 NICE Guideline on Self Harm

  • Reflect on and improve co-production and user involvement with children, young people and families 

  • Working with schools in improving wellbeing reducing suicide in children and young people

  • Implement recommendations from Getting it Right First Time in Children and Young Peoples Mental Health (GiRFT)

  • Self assess and reflect on your own practice

  • Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes 

100% of delegates who attended the previous date would recommend to a colleague. 

Speakers include:

Dr Jon Goldin

Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust

Ms Nicola Harvey

Founder, former Senior Teacher & Author
Harvey Heals

Dr Esther Sabel

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
CAMHS Crisis Team
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Max Davie

Consultant community paediatrician
Evelina London Childrens Hospital

Exhibition & Sponsorship Packages

This conference offers a valuable opportunity for industry suppliers to personally meet with their target audience where they will have time to talk and demonstrate the benefits of their products. High quality specialist audiences make having a presence at our events a highly targeted and cost effective marketing channel.

Why Exhibit?

Having a presence at this event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Demonstrate your product, system or service
  • Network and engage with your key audience  
  • Generate new business leads
  • Gain exposure for your brand and raise the profile of your organisation
  • Understand the current needs of your audience and challenges they’re facing
  • Update your knowledge of national policy and local developments  

Enquire

Contact Carolyn Goodbody for exhibition and sponsorship prices, or to discuss a tailored package to suit your needs and budget.

Getting to the Venue

Location

Hallam Conference Centre, Cavendish Venues, 44 Hallam St, London W1W 6JJ

By rail

Marylebone, Euston and Kings Cross St Pancras Stations are all within 10 minutes taxi rides or alternatively 15 minutes by Underground. Paddington Station (which has a direct link to Heathrow every 15 minutes) is 20 minutes walk or 10 minutes in a taxi.

By road

There is on-street parking nearby, see: Parking in Westminster for more information. The nearest NCP car park is at 6-7 Weymouth Mews. Please note that this venue is within the Congestion Charge zone.

Venue Map

Fee Options

NHS, Schools, Care and Public Sector

£295.00

(£354.00)

Voluntary sector & charities

£250.00

(£300.00)

Commercial organisations

£495.00

(£594.00)

Virtual NHS, Schools, Care and Public Sector

£295.00

(£354.00)

Virtual Voluntary sector & charities

£250.00

(£300.00)

Virtual Commercial organisations

£495.00

(£594.00)

(Prices in brackets include VAT)

Discounts

Additional delegate discount:

A discount of 15% will be applied to fees for any extra delegates.

Online discount:

A discount of 10% will be applied if you pay using the website.

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