February 2020
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This conference will consider priorities and next steps for improving mental health and wellbeing provision in Wales.
The context for discussion
The conference takes place in the context of issues emerging from recent policy consultations, including:
Areas for discussion
Delegates will assess progress and next steps in key policy areas, including:
- Crisis care - partnership working, following the Wales Crisis Care Concordat National Action Plan, as well as quality of data and its analysis, and improving inter-agency communication;
- Children and young people - revisions to guidance on school- and community-based counselling, and progress on improving emotional and mental health of children and young people;
- Mental health and policing - including preventing people going into police custody, and identifying and responding appropriately to detained people with mental health problems;
- Perinatal mental health services - improving access and quality, and examining progress following the Committee inquiry on perinatal mental health;
- Funding - Welsh Government funding for projects, including developing alternatives to hospital admission in North Wales and expanding the Betsi Cadwaladr UHB Perinatal Mental Health Service; and
- A Healthier Wales - The Welsh Government’s progress report one year on, and how to meet the plan’s aims relating to outcomes, quality, access, value and workforce.
Speakers
There will be keynote addresses from:
- Andrea Gray, Mental Health Development Lead for Wales, Public Health Wales;
- Alun Thomas, Chief Executive, Hafal;
- Helen Whyley, Director, RCN Wales; and
- Tim Wright, Service Development Senior Officer, Mind.
Further confirmed speakers include: Casey-Jane Bishop, Welsh Youth Parliament; Jan Coles, Powys County Council; Suzanne Griffiths, National Adoption Service for Wales; Ewan Hilton, Platfform; Allison Hulmes, British Association of Social Workers Cymru; Jane Jenkins, Moorland Primary School and David Richards, Gwent Police.
The agenda
- The delivery plan - collaboration, key outcomes, and effective joint working between local authorities and health boards;
- Serious mental illness and vulnerable groups in Wales - priorities for support;
- Perinatal mental health services - developing care pathways and inpatient provision;
- Children and young people - intervention and prevention, access to care, and the transition between child and adult services;
- Partnerships - Mental health services and the third and public sector - addressing key challenges for quality, funding, signposting, and improving multiagency response; and
- Investment in services and developing a sustainable workforce - recruitment, retention, planning, and staff wellbeing.