You can find out about your local school nursing service at the Kensington and Chelsea family information service website
Local resources Kensington and Chelsea
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Kensington and Chelsea
If you think you or your child might need support with their emotional wellbeing and mental health you can speak to your school nurse, teacher, or GP about a CAMHS referral.
Referrals can be made directly to CAMHS by a professional working with your child
Cnw-tr.kccamhs.cnwl@nhs.net
If you are worried about a child you can speak to the Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS team on 0203 317 3599
To find out more about Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS please visit their website
Resources for parents, carers and young people
Get Connected
- Freephone 0808 808 4994 (7 days a week 1pm-11pm)
- www.getconnected.org.uk
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
- Freephone 0800 1111 (24 hours)
- www.childline.org.uk
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.
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
- Young Minds (0808 802 5544)
- The Mix (0808 808 4994/ Crisis text line – can text THEMIX to 85258 11am -11pm)
- Mind
- Royal College of Psychiatrists (Comprehensive information about mental health)
- Time to change
- Heads together
Anxiety
Depression
- Depression information via the NHS website
- Young Minds
Bullying
School refusal
Addiction, drugs and alcohol
- FRANK - Honest Information about drugs / 0800 77 66 00
- Alcohol Change UK
- Adfam
Eating disorders
Sexuality
- Barnardos - LGBTQ young people
- The Proud Trust - LGBT+ youth
- Stonewall youth
- Allsorts youth project
- Princes Trust - LGBT+ Resources
Self-harm
- Self harm information via the NHS website
- Harmless
Suicide
- Suicide information via the NHS website
- Childline - 0800 11 11
- MIND - 0300 123 3393
- Samaritans - 116 123
- CALM - 0800 58 58 58
- PAPYRUS HOPELINEUK - call 0800 068 4141 (open 10am-10pm weekdays, 2pm-10pm weekends and bank holidays)
- Maytree - 020 7263 7070
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 Kensington and Chelsea 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.