2008 Safeguarding London's Children Conference
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN WHOSE PARENTS HAVE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OR MISUSE SUBSTANCES
FRIDAY 12th DECEMBER 2008
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
London, SW1P 3EE
Full programme
Speaker profiles
Plenary speaker presentations
Dr Alan Cooklin - Living upside down: addressing the roles of children of parents with mental illness
Dr Brynna Kroll - Living with an elephant: substance misuse, parenting and child welfare
DS Caroline Bates - Risk factors to target in preventing child abuse
Seminar presentations and handouts
1. Specialist substance misuse workers and children’s social care – a joint approach to safeguarding children (Gill Watson, Parental Substance Misuse and Childcare Social Worker, Islington, Alison Johnson, Senior Practitioner Substance Misuse, Camden and Suzanne Olsen, Substance Misuse Social Worker, Lambeth)
Seminar 1 presentation
Drugscope: working with parents
Challenges exercise
Parental substance misuse network - contact details
2. Think Family: Strengthening collaborative working between all services involved with a child and family (Caroline Prichard and Lia Borgese, Families Division, DCSF and Rumi Hussein, Family Intervention Project, LB Hackney)
Seminar 2 presentation - DCSF Think Family
Seminar 2 presentation - Hackney Family Intervention Project
3. The Hidden Harm agenda - improving partnership working between children and adult services in safeguarding children affected by parental substance misuse (Patricia Denney, Principal Officer, Social Care and Safeguarding and Sally Heath, Children's Commissioning Manager, London Borough of Camden)
Seminar 3 presentation
Workshop feedback
4. Perinatal mental health services – best practice in supporting new mothers and their babies (Dr Andy Kent, Consultant Psychiatrist and Reader in Psychiatry, St George's, University of London)
Seminar 4 presentation (coming soon)
5. The Building Bridges project: supporting families affected by parental mental health problems and other complex needs (Rosie Mather and Briony Hallam, Family Action)
6. Joint working between children’s social care and adult mental health services – the Hackney experience (Jan Pearson and Helen Green, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Rhonda Miedziolka and Tina McElligott, Hackney Children and Young People’s Service)
Additional papers
The impacts on children and young people of parental mental illness
Minimum dataset for all mental health referrals
Being seen and heard order form
Being seen and heard training pack
Young carers, young victims, or young survivors?: Impacts on, and responses of children of parents with mental illness
Children of parents with mental illness (excerpt from Children in Family Contexts, Second edition: Perspectives on Treatment, 2006)
Kidstime workshop flyer
Patients as parents: Addressing the needs, including the safety, of children whose parents have mental illness (Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, June 2002)
Barnardos Keeping the Family in Mind resource pack flyer
Partners in care: A checklist for professionals coming into contact with the children of parents with mental health problems
