Children and young people up to 18 years
Recognising and managing feelings of anxiety, stress or depression is hard for anyone but especially difficult for children and young people as they grow up and learn about themselves and the world around them.
Bromley Y
Bromley Y works with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to provide an integrated Single Point of Access (iSPA) for all children and young people with mental health and emotional wellbeing challenges.
The iSPA will assess whether individual children and young people should be referred to specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) either at initial triage or following an assessment at Bromley Y.
Referrals to Bromley Y can be made directly from any child, young person or family/carer or agency involved in working with children and young people, including GPs, social care, education, acute and community paediatricians and voluntary sector organisations.
Tel: 0203 770 8848 or complete their referral form.
The Signpost is a new text chat support service from Bromley-Y where children and young people aged 11 and over can send texts to a dedicated helpful advice and support service and get a reply within 24 hours.
Learn more about the move to adult mental health services.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
The CAMHS service in Bromley is provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and work with children and young people up to the age of 18.
Bromley CAMHS provide specialist mental health consultation, assessment and treatment to children and young people aged 0-18 who have severe and enduring emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties, and their families/carers.
CAMHS are based at two locations:
Stepping Stones House and the Phoenix Centre.
CAMHS Ready - An online tool to help young people and their families that makes sure that they get the most out of their first visit to a CAMHS service.
Referrals are through Bromley Y.
Children and Young People’s Dynamic Support Register (DSR) and Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETRs)
The Dynamic Support Register (DSR) and Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETRs) work together as a mechanism to help keep children and young people who are autistic and/or who have learning disabilities out of specialist in-patient mental health units in hospitals and instead seek to agree and provide support within the community and home environment.
The DSR and CETR are ways to ensure this is what happens. CETRs are part of a national program led by NHS England called Transforming Care. The aim of Transforming Care is to reduce the number of people with a learning disability or autism becoming longer-term inpatients in a hospital unnecessarily.
Dynamic Support Register (DSR)
The Children and Young People’s Dynamic Support Register (DSR) is for those under 18 who are at high risk of going into a mental health hospital if they do not get the right care and treatment in the community.
The information held on the Dynamic Support Register will be shared with a small group of lead professionals from relevant Social Care, Education, and Health Services. Together these professionals review the children and young people on the register to think about when more support might be needed.
A referral can be made by parents/guardians, children and young people themselves (self-referral) and health professionals.
For more information including the eligibility criteria, and referral process, visit the South East London Integrated Care System (SELONDONICS) website.
Care Education and Treatment Review (CETR)
A Care Education and Treatment Review (CETR) is a meeting about a child or young person who has a learning disability and/or autism and displays behaviours that may mean that they are a risk to themselves. This, in turn, could result in them being either at risk of being admitted to, or mean they are currently already in an in-patient (psychiatric) service.
Any inpatient admission should be based on very clear reasons why certain needs can only be met in hospital. Inpatient services should not be used due to a lack of local services and support. The aim of a CETR is to avoid admission wherever possible or to plan a discharge from an admission.
For more information about CETRs, visit the NHS England Care, Education and Treatment Reviews (CETRs) website.
Adult mental health services (working age adults)
The Bromley Locality Mental Health Service is located at the Beckenham Beacon Hospital and in Orpington Hospital.
If you are referred to mental health services by your GP (and you are aged between 18 and 64), the locality team will accept the referral and a team member will carry out an assessment of your needs. They will then decide with you which part of the service will best meet your needs and provide information about that service.
Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs)
Together with the Oxleas NHS Trust we provide an integrated service for people who have serious mental health problems, and their carers. Services are provided through Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) based in Penge, Bromley and Orpington. The teams aim to treat mental illness and provide support to enable service users to live independently in the community. Find out more about the Community Mental Health Teams
Bromley Well
Bromley Well provides information and advice on appropriate local services and therapies and how to successfully access them. Find out more about the Bromley Well service.
Need more help?
The information, advice and support service (IASS) provides confidential and impartial advice and information to support parents or carers and children and young people who have, or may have, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) aged 0 to 25.