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Faculty of Child and Adolscent Psychiatry Annual Conference 2025

Date: 25 and 26 September 2025

Location: The Edwardian Radisson Hotel, Manchester

We can't wait to join so many of you in person in the wonderful city of Manchester. Our annual conference page contains all the information you need. 

Our podcast is now live!

Children’s Mental Health: Listen Up! is the child and adolescent faculty's new podcast. It has been developed to provide accurate and accessible information about mental health conditions affecting children (infants, children and young people).

There are also updates about research and policy developments in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as information about the work of the College. The podcasts provides interviews with clinical and research experts, those with lived experience and providers of third sector services. It can be found wherever you get your podcasts or on the College page.

Improving the transition from child to adult mental health services

Dr Jeya Balakrishna is a community consultant psychiatrist in Defence Primary Healthcare, an officer on the General Adult Faculty Executive, and Co-Chair of the Young Adults Working Group (with Elaine Lockhart, previous Chair of Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). His recent article in The Registrar magazine on creating integrated, flexible services to support young people transitioning from child to adult services is a must read.

Older news

• RCPsych released an updated statement on the shortage of ADHD medication in December 2023.
• Read the report Securing our healthy future: Prevention is better than cure, published by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which highlights how prioritising the prevention of ill health in childhood can ease pressure on the NHS and help to build a strong economy.
• View the Faculty Recruitment and Retention Strategy 2023
• Read our joint statement with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health about meeting the mental health needs of children and young people in acute hospitals.
• Following the death of Sir Michael Rutter in 2021, read the Obituary of Michael Rutter or watch Sir Michael’s memorial day on 27 June 2022.
• Business Meeting Summary – 24 September 2021
• Perceived impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric services after one year

The Winter/Spring edition of the faculty newsletter is now available.

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• Summer 2024
• Spring 2023
• Winter 2022
• Summer 2022
• Spring 2022
• Winter 2021
• Spring 2021
• COVID special edition June 2020
• Spring 2020
• Winter 2019/2020
• Summer 2019
• Spring 2019
• Winter 2018/2019
• Summer 2018
• Spring 2018

Archive

If you require a copy of any previous newsletters not currently available on the website, please email our archivist.

College reports

• CR238: Infant and early childhood mental health
• PS03/22: Delivering better outcomes for children and young adults-new service models and better transitions across mental health
• CR225: Technology use and the mental health of children and young people
• CR195: When to see a child and adolescent psychiatrist
• CR198: Guidance for the use of audio-visual recording in child psychiatric practice

Faculty reports

• FR/CAP/GAP/01: Good mental health services for young people
• FR/CAP/01: Survey of in-patient admissions for children and young people with mental health problems
• FR/CAP/02: Physical health of children and adolescents What specialist child and adolescent psychiatrists need to know and do

Other resources

• Bodily Distress Symptoms Professionals Guideline
• Values Based CAMHS: What really matters to children and young people
  • Report of the Values Based CAMHS Commission
  • Summary document
• Position statement: Defining a health-based place of safety (S136) and crises assessment sites for young people under 18
• RCPSYCH and Tribunals Judiciary A Guide to Mental Health Tribunals for Young People
• EcoCAMHS top tips for climate, nature and wellbeing Top tips

Access a variety of resources for psychiatrists, resident doctors and other mental health professionals, such as books, webinars and eLearning materials.

We produce a variety of leaflets on young people's mental health, catering for both young people, and parents, carers and teachers.

You can also see other resources such as books, films, helplines and websites.

Dr Meinou Simmons, Consultant Psychiatrist in Oxfordshire CAMHS and TPD in Thames Valley, has written a handbook called ‘A Guide to the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Q and A for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers’ with Cambridge University Press in association with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The book covers a breadth of different mental health issues affecting children and young people.

The College has  a set of resources for international disasters that may be useful for psychiatrists working in humanitarian emergencies and conflict areas.

The impact of war on children in Ukraine and Russia is described well in the following paper, War hits children first.

There are helpful resources for those who wish to support children and families who are directly or indirectly affected by war on our website:

• Young Minds
• MindEd

We wish to extend our support to our colleagues from countries where war is on-going and to let you know that there is help available from the Psychiatrists Support Service.