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School nurses will be asking about your mental health at every contact. If you are struggling with your mental health then your school nurse can offer you additional support in school or refer you to the High impact area lead in children/young people’s mental health who specialises in children with emotional wellbeing challenges.

During these meetings it is an opportunity for you to express how you are feeling without judgement and help you to make sense of what you are going through at that time.

If you require further support then your school nurse can advise you about additional services like CAMHS, Catch22 or Place2be that also work with schools and refer you to them.  If you wish, your school nurse can work together with these other teams to provide you with effective, coordinated care.

We provide advice and support to all Wandsworth families during the age of 5 to 18 years old who attend a Wandsworth Primary or Secondary School.

If you're concerned about yourself or your baby please contact your health visiting team. We are available to help and support in many different ways and can support you to access other services in the local community.

Wandsworth 0-19 Single Point of Access (SPA)

If you would like to enquire about receiving support from the school nursing team or HIA lead or want information about other services you can speak to a member of our duty team or request to be contacted by your allocated school nursing team. Alternatively you can complete the Wandsworth school nurse referral form.

CLCH High Impact Area Lead for children and young people’s mental health

If you and your school nurse think it would be beneficial for you they can refer you to the High Impact Area lead for children and young people’s mental health who specialises in Children with emotional wellbeing challenges. This is a CLCH service delivered to children and young people attending a school in Wandsworth or Richmond. 

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) - Springfield Hospital, South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

CAMHS services receiving referrals and treats young people. (some treatment will be via telephone and the internet in response to Covid-19).

Routine referrals continue to be via our Single Point of Access (SPA): 

Phone: 0203 513 6631 

Email: ssg-tr.wandsworthCAMHSreferral@nhs.net

The CAMHS service offers an online Counselling provision via KOOTHS which is available to all Wandsworth young people. Young people can self-refer to this confidential service. Please visit www.kooth.com

A 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Mental Health Support Line for all young people in Crisis is available. They can be contacted on: 0800 028 8000, you can phone during evenings and weekends as well as any other times.

Please do not go to A&E if you are in crisis, instead the CAMHS team have set up the Orchid Crisis Unit at Springfield Hospital, which you may be advised to attend once you have phoned the Crisis Line, above.

You can find out more information about the Wandsworth CAMHS service, what they offer and how to be referred to them on their leaflet. 

Place2be

Place2Be provides child counselling and mental health support within some Wandsworth Schools including primary, secondary. Each school that accesses place2be has a dedicated Place2Be mental health professional who is an integral part of the school team. They work closely with pupils, families and staff to improve emotional wellbeing and provide mental health support for the whole school. They collect data to measure our impact on mental health in schools. This helps us to review and improve our in-school support.

To Find out more Get in touch by calling on 020 7923 5500.

Resources for parents, carers and young people

Get Connected 

Free, confidential telephone and email helpline finding young people the best help whatever the problem. Provides free connections to local or national services, and can text information to callers’ mobile phones. 

ChildLine 

Childline is the UK’s free helpline for children and young people. It provides confidential telephone counselling service for any child with a problem. It comforts, advises and protects. 

NHS Go

A free app designed by and for young people to give them instant access to confidential health and wellbeing information. It also helps young people to find the nearest NHS service and gives them information on their rights when using services. 

https://www.nhsgo.uk

On this NHS site you can view a range of phone apps, the search can be filtered for Mental Health.  Some are free, but others are charged for. 

General Mental Health information and support
Anxiety
Depression
Bullying
School refusal 
Addiction, drugs and alcohol
Eating disorders
Sexuality
Self-harm
Suicide
Social media
Divorce and separation

It is important that we all work together to keep children and young people safe from harm.

If you believe a child is at risk of immediate harm please call the Police on 999

If you are worried that a child may be suffering, or may be at risk of harm you can refer to the Wandsworth social care team here.

Providing feedback on our services

It is important for us to hear what you think of our services so that we know what we are doing well and where we need to make improvements. Whether you wish to pay us a compliment, raise a concern or make a formal complaint, our patient advice and liaison service (PALS) team are here to help and all feedback given will be kept confidential.

You can find out more about how to provide feedback here.

If you would like to complete a patient story please speak to the team CLCH health team. Patient stories are a chance for you to share more information about your experiences of being cared for by our services. We collect patient stories in multiple different ways including videos, written stories, pictures and conversations with you that we then type. 

Contacting our PALS team:

  • Telephone: 0800 368 0412
  • Email: clchpals@nhs.net
  • Post: PALS team, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, 5-7 Parsons Green, London, SW6 4UL

Providing feedback on this website

We want this website to be helpful to you and your family and welcome feedback on how we can improve it. If you spot anything that's incorrect, confusing or have suggestions for how we can make it better please email us on clcht.health.matters@nhs.net this mailbox will be checked weekly and should not be used for urgent or clinical requests.