Child and Adult Mental Health Services:
Falling Between the Cracks or Think Family?

- October 21, 2008

Over 100 children's and adult services commissioners and practitioners attended a Parents' Week seminar in Westminster organised by the Parliamentary Group for Parents and Families to debate new ways of working that put families at the centre to provide seamless, integrated services that can reach families in need.

The Family and Parenting Institute, the Association for Family Therapy and Family Action supported this seminar to provide debate around current issues in child and adult mental health service provision.

The recent Social Exclusion Unit report 'Think Family' highlighted what practitioners know from experience - that there is still a huge gap between the ways that children's and adult mental health services work with families.

Family therapists are developing family inclusive approaches to reduce the number of children and families falling through the gaps between service sectors. This timely seminar focused on new ways of working and lessons from current practice that address the need to put families at the centre of both child and adult mental health services to provide seamless, integrated services that can reach families in need.

Presentations by:

Mary MacLeod (CEO - Family and Parenting Institute)

David Amias (Association for Family Therapy)

Helen Dent (CEO - Family Action)

See also:
The Guardian, Wednesday October 22 2008
Double indemnity
Local authorities are reshaping health and social care provision for both adults and children, and there are a number of options - but which will Whitehall go for, asks David Brindle

Last updated: 23rd October 2008 at 09:10:54