The YPHSIG has been invited by the RCPCH Clinical Standards Group to consult on the below clinical guidelines, technology appraisals, diagnostic assessments, public health guidances and quality standards over the next few months. You may wish to lead the YPHSIG consultation on behalf of our group or simply contribute to the discussion. There will be forthcoming consultations on:

December 2011
Schizophrenia: NICE quality standard draft

January 2012
Head injury (update): NICE clinical guideline – nominations for scoping workshop in mid-February 2012 
Promoting physical activity for children and young people: NICE public health guidance - review proposal 

School-based interventions on alcohol: NICE public health guidance - review proposal

February 2012
Sickle cell acute painful episode: NICE clinical guideline - draft guideline 
Smokeless tobacco: helping South Asians to stop using: NICE public health guidance - draft guidance

March 2012
Bipolar disorder: Aripiprazole for the treatment and prevention: NICE technology appraisal - evidence submission 
Spasticity in children and young people: NICE clinical guideline - pre-publication check

This work requires reading and commenting on draft guidance and is a chance to influence clinical guidance to reflect the health needs of young people. It counts towards Continuing Professional Development activity. If you would like to lead the YPHSIG on any of the above consultations please let me know by Thursday 16 December 2011. Forthcoming consultations are listed on the College website at www.rcpch.ac.uk/consultations - see ‘Forthcoming consultations’.

Many thanks to members for your continued involvement in these consultations. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Damian Wood

YPHSIG Convenor

 

At the recent YPHSIG meeting in Sheffield a few of us who are particularly involved in looking after young people with eating disorders felt that it might be useful to form an e-mail discussion group/meet maybe twice a year for discussion of common issues, working practices, case based presentations and discussions, mutual support etc

If you are interested, or know others that might be interested in being part of such a group then please let me know gail.moss@sch.nhs.uk. The exact aim and role of this group can be discussed and modified once we know numbers and their views.

 

Gail Moss

Consultant Paediatrician

Sheffield Children's Hospital

gail.moss@sch.nhs.uk.

27 March 2012 - Millennium Stadium, Cardiff - 9.30 to 4.30

The Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH) is pleased to be hosting this one day multi–disciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners from across the UK, with an interest in young people’s health and well-being. It will provide delegates with the opportunity to share their experiences of healthcare research as well as promoting innovative approaches for practice. Topics will include

• Better understanding the health needs and experiences of young people and the assets they need to navigate them.
• Young people’s participation and involvement in healthcare decision-making and service design.
• Meeting the health needs of vulnerable or marginalised groups of young people.
• Supporting young people effectively in the health care transitions they face.

We will be looking at a broad range of issues including mental and emotional wellbeing, sexual health and relationships, alcohol and substance use, diet, nutrition and eating behaviours as well as methodological issues involved in researching young people’s health.

 

Click here to download a flyer (.pdf) 395kb

For more information visit http://www.iaah-europe2012.org/

Russell Viner
London
European Vice President of the International Association of Adolescent Health

The University of Central Lancashire is proud to host the second international conference of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network (http://www.icyrnet.net/). The first conference was in Nicosia in May 2008, on the theme ‘Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal’, and was attended by delegates from all over the world. The 2012 conference will take place in Preston, in North West England, and will be on the theme ‘Children, Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation’. The international research conference is aimed at researchers (both new and experienced), policy-makers and practitioners from all around the world. It will take place side by side with an international gathering of children and young people, currently being planned around broad themes of participation and citizenship. Shared plenary sessions, and a series of smaller workshops, will create spaces where children, young people and adults can come together and engage in dialogue.

 

Research and policy papers are invited on the following sub-themes:

Cross-cutting themes are expected to include, for example, power, gender, abuse and exploitation. Confirmed plenary speakers are:

Other plenary speakers may be added nearer the date.

 

Preston is surrounded by beautiful country, including the Lake District, the Forest of Bowland and the Fylde coast. The town was at the heart of the industrial revolution and the struggle for democracy in the 19th century, and since 2002 it has been England’s newest city. This conference will coincide with Preston Guild, a unique civic celebration which has taken place every twenty years since the Middle Ages.

 

Full details of conference fees and booking arrangements will be announced in January 2012.

 

Abstracts (up to 150 words) are invited to be submitted by 5pm on 31st March 2012. Decisions will be notified on 30th April 2012.

The Teenage Relationship Abuse Campaign, launched by the UK Home Office on 1 September 2011 aims to prevent teenagers from becoming victims and perpetrators of abusive relationships. The campaign encourages teenagers to re-think their views of acceptable violence, abuse or controlling behaviour in relationships and directs them to places for help and advice. The This is abuse website gives teens the chance to discuss the issues with their peers and get access to third party support and advice. The site is also running online discussion forums during the campaign with the support of our partners such as Against Violence and Abuse, Women’s Aid, Respect – men's advice line and Broken Rainbow.

 

For more information or to download and order campaign materials visit the Teenage Relationship Abuse website.

 

The campaign is supported by a video advertising campaign. The teenage relationship abuse campaign originally ran in February and March 2010 and is presently re-running on youth TV stations, in cinemas, on posters in schools, shopping and leisure centres and online. You can view the videos on the This is Abuse website or here via YouTube.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many more young people than previously thought could be subject to sexual exploitation by gangs, the Office of the Children's Commissioner says as it launches a two-year inquiry into the scale of the problem. Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said the issue reached across all classes and races with current estimates suggesting up to 10,000 children and young people in the UK are subject to such abuse.

 

See the BBC News site for more on this story.

The UK Coalition Government is developing a new cross-Government policy statement on services for young people, to be published in the autumn. Building on the outcomes from the Positive for Youth summit the Department for Education are working closely with stakeholders including young people, the voluntary sector, local authorities, government departments and businesses, to co-produce a series of themed discussion papers on which they are seeking comments. They have also written an overarching narrative that brings together all the issues from the individual discussion papers.

You can access the discussion papers and the overarching narrative We have been invited by the Department of Education and the RCPCH to provide expert comment on the Positive for Youth discussion papers which can be accessed via the Department for Education - Positive for Youth site. This is an important opportunity to influence key policy makers and the final policy will affect all areas of the UK government. Please take some time to read and comment on the discussion papers. Please send any comments to convenor@yphsig.org.uk or dmwood@doctors.org.uk by the 1st September 2011 and we will formulate a collective YPHSIG response. Alternatively you can send comments directly to positivefor.youth@education.gsi.gov.uk by the 15th Spetember 2011.

The programme for the 2011 YPHSIG conference is now available to download. The theme of this year's conference is Improving Outcomes for Young People with Long Term Illness and we have an exciting programme combining clinical update and service development.

 

Download a copy of the programme and an application form here. Don't forget to book your place now. We have worked hard to keep our costs down without compromising on the quality of the conference and there are discounted rates available - see the final page of the programme for full details of rates and payment methods.

 

For more information on the conference, this years venue and submitting abstracts please see our events pages.

 

 

Abstracts are invited for oral or poster presentation of research findings or innovative clinical practice or service development in any aspect of adolescent health. All abstracts are likely to be accepted for poster presentation.

Research abstracts must relate to unpublished original scientific research and must contain the data that will be presented at the conference.  As is RCPCH practice, we will accept abstracts of research that has already been presented at an international meeting outside of Britain.

Clinical or service abstracts should detail the development and evaluation of innovative practice or service development within adolescent health. Abstracts that are simply advertisements for services will not be accepted.

The best 4 research abstracts will be selected for oral presentation (10 minute oral presentation with slides, plus 5 minutes for questions) in a dedicated session on Friday 7th October.

A Young Investigator Award will be presented to the best research abstract submitted by a clinician below Consultant grade.

 

Please complete your abstract using the following proforma. Abstracts must be less than 350 words and e-mailed to l.hudson@ucl.ac.uk no later than 31st August 2011.