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This 10th national conference which this year will be held virtually focuses on Saving Young Lives – Preventing Suicide in Children and Young People. By attending this one day conference you will hear from expert speakers on how your services can reduce preventable suicides and save young lives. Through national updates, case studies from multi-agency settings and lived experience insight, this conference aims to set the scene for progress already being made and what needs to change to improve resilience, wellbeing, mental health support and effectively prevent suicide in children and young people.
The conference will also use case studies to demonstrate interventions that work in health, schools, universities and multi-agency settings. The conference will examine adherence to Caldicott Principles of information sharing, as well as digital wellness and the potential impact of the Online Safety Bill.
“We want to provide young people with effective care as soon as they need it, not once they’ve already developed a serious illness which could have been prevented. That’s why we need to see government focus on prevention and reversing the rising rates of mental illness, as well as ensuring sufficient resourcing of specialist services.”
Dr Lade Smith, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, February 2024
“Early support for children and young people with mental health issues is a priority for the NHS, and plans are in place to ensure more than one in two pupils and learners in schools and colleges are covered by an NHS mental health support team by spring 2025 – significantly ahead of the original target.”
NHS England, February 2024
“We all have a part to play in preventing suicides, whether it’s by sharing our stories, looking after one another and making sure we have those open conversations. Every conversation can make a difference.”
Gillian Kelly, Interim Chief Nurse, West London NHS Trust, September 2024
Benefits of attending. This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve services, practice and treatment to reduce preventable suicides and save young lives
Discuss the national data and evidence base currently on young suicides, and use this to direct and target service improvem ent and interventions
Reflect on the lived experience
Understand the impact of viewing online self-harm and suicide content has on individuals
Implement a preventative approach to treating young people in CAMHS services
Understand how you can work to increasing young people’s resilience & self-compassion
Improving information sharing to prevent suicide in young people & children
Deliver effective multi-agency working to support “high risk” young people
Reflect on the relationship between suicide and self harm
Work in innovative ways with schools to improve support and wellbeing
Identify key strategies for improving access to services for high risk groups such as university students and LGBTQ+ young people
Developing your skills in supporting children and young people in crisis
Understand how we can better support bereaved relatives and families
Improve information sharing to support suicide prevention in young people
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation
