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On Tuesday 20 April, CNWL held a launch event to discuss the services which are currently provided for people diagnosed with Complex Emotional Needs associated with Personality Disorder.

A new service is being piloted in Brent, Harrow, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea that is jointly funded by CNWL and Primary Care Networks (PCNs). The service aims to improve access to mental health support in the community for children and young people within the principles of the THRIVE Framework.

Amanda Black, a Senior Nurse with the Twilight District Nursing Service in Milton Keynes talks reasonable adjustments, and how compassionate management provided alternative work arrangements that allowed her to keep working and looking after her children with complex needs, during COVID-19.

Milton Keynes City Council is working with Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board (BLMK ICB) to expand emotional wellbeing and mental health support for young people via a new early intervention service.

In November, CNWL will be launching a Year of the Child campaign; a programme of activities that will celebrate and promote our large portfolio of children’s services. We want to showcase our expertise in this area, working with parents, carers and young people to gain insight into their experiences.

Camden Council’s children’s services have been rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, placing Camden as one of the best performers in the country.

CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) have worked with children and young people, their families and other professionals to develop a collection of animated stories that give you tips on how to support young autistic people.

This update provides information about the ways arts therapists have refocused and remodelled community and inpatient arts therapies provision in response to the current COVID-19 emergency. Arts Therapists are focusing on supporting services where resources are most stretched and supporting service users with highly complex needs and those who may be most vulnerable at this time.

Working with the Local Authorities in our boroughs, these schemes have supported thousands of children across a wide range of communities including children in care, young carers, refugee and asylum seekers, LGBT+, and communities identified as having lower rates of access to children’s mental health services such as black, asian and minority ethnic communities. 

Davina Jhummun, Clinical Lead OT for perinatal Services in CNWL contributed to the book “Mothers Accused and Abused Addressing Complex Psychological Needs” By Angela Foster.

Brent Under 5s Children’s service is now up and running

In September 2022, we will be launching a special Year of the Child agenda; a programme of activities that will celebrate and promote CNWL’s large portfolio of children’s services. We want to showcase our expertise in this area, working with parents, carers and young people to gain insight into their experiences.

A CNWL Speech and Language Therapist and her two friends have created a free video resource, designed to make stories more accessible and enjoyable for children with language and communication difficulties.

Our Young Service User Consultants – 12 children from North Kensington who work in partnership with us, met recently to continue our joint work improving NHS services for children in the community.

Children and young people in Hillingdon and their families can now get support 24 hours a day with common health, development and wellbeing concerns through a dedicated website: hillingdoncyp.cnwl.nhs.uk

Healthwatch Milton Keynes have published their 2021-22 Annual Report, which includes our commitment to improve the experiences of families using CAMHS services for children and young people with autism and special educational needs.

Hillingdon Youth Justice Service (YJS) have been awarded the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Lead Quality Mark with Child First Commendation by Microlink PC. CNWL are proud to be part of this partnership.

From this date the service will consider referrals for young people who have ‘mild’ eating disorders, not only those young people who may have a ‘moderate’ or ‘severe’ eating disorder.  We hope this will mean that young people who are in the early stages of an eating disorder will be able to be assessed much quicker, and if appropriate, provided with evidence-based treatment even quicker too