Children Young People and Families programme

Publications and Resources

This section provides access to a range of useful publications and other resources. Many have been produced or commissioned by the NCSS.

If you can not find what you are looking for here, or you are looking for something specific, try the What's New section of the website, the CSIP Knowledge Community, the Links section on this website, or have a look at the other sections of this website.

The sections below contain links to key resources

NCSS Overarching Publications & Resources

Improving the Mental Health of Children - click here to download a film click from the Local Government Channel about the work of the NCSS
Learning Perspectives from the NCSS- click here to download this report by Dawn Rees.

CAMHS Self Assessment Matrix (SAM)

Click here for the online CAMHS Self Assessment - ChiMat website

Children in Care

Click here to download Looking after the Mental Health of Looked After Children: Sharing Emerging Practice - by Mary Bunting, and funded by YoungMinds and the NCSS.

Commissioning

Addressing the Challenges of CAMHS Commissioning - Click here to download the podcast.

Culturally Sensitive Services

Click here to go to the Developing Culturally Sensitive Services section of this website.

Education

Bristol Schools toolkit - Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Toolkit
Click here for the toolkit, and here for an accompanying letter.

Kirklees Healthy College Standard
Click here to download article in Education and Health by Kate Birch

Emerging Practice

Click here for the Children's NSF Initiatives Development Projects
Click here for the annex to the report on the Implementation of Standard 9 of the NSF
Click here to download Looking after the Mental Health of Looked After Children: Sharing Emerging Practice - by Mary Bunting, and funded by YoungMinds and the NCSS.
New Ways of Working Project reports - download from New Ways of Working website

Evidence-Base

Choosing What's Best for You - booklet for young people and parents
Drawing on the Evidence - booklet for parents
Knowing Where to Look - how to find evidence

Learning Disabilities

Click here to go to the Learning Disabilities resources page.

Needs Assessment

Click here for the online CAMHS Needs Assessment Tool- ChiMat website
Click here for the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment APHO Resource Pack

Participation/User Involvement in CAMHS

Click here to go to the Participation in CAMHS resources page.

Partnership Working

Partnership Facilitation Programme - Click here to go to the HASCAS website for more information.

Policy and Government Documents

Click here to go to the Policy section

Prevention and Promotion

Click here for One Stop Parent Shop: Single Session Introduction to Positive Parenting

Primary Mental Health Workers

Click here to download Primary Mental Health Workers in CAMHS: A Survey of PMHW's Perceptions about Organisations, Management and Role,
Click here to download presentations from the 2007 Child & Adolescent PMHWs: An Overview: A Training and Education Conference.

Stigma

Talking to Children and Parents About the Stigma of Mental Health: The Stigma of Mental Health: Developing a Framework for Action - Presentation from Fiona Warner-Gale. Click here to download.
Tackling the Cost of Stigma on Children's Mental Health: What Can Your Organisation Contribute? Click here to download.

Training and Developing Tier 1

Click here to go to the Training and Developing Tier 1 Resources page

Tier 4

Click here to go to the Tier 4 CAMHS Resources page

Workforce

Presentations from National Workforce Development in CAMHS conference - download from the New Ways of Working (NWW) website.
CAMHS Workforce Planning - download from HASCAS website
New Ways of Working Project reports - download from NWW website
Click here to go to the CAMHS Workforce Section of the Website