On 18th June 2018 I will be speaking at the Cornwall and Devon Police and Crime Commissioner's seminar on Dual Diagnosis treatment systems. This will be rev...

DHI are celebrating their 20th anniversary of delivering services to vulnerable people and supporting their families. As part of this they are inviting thin...

I have just completed the design of a hugely innovative detoxification programme with Bosence Farm in Cornwall. The programme takes a new approach to addres...

I have just had a chapter on Young People and Complexity accepted for publication in a new book "Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities: A P...

The research and results of the HOPE feasibility study have been published. This was a suicide prevention intervention designed to support people experienci...

I am pleased to be involved in the pilot with Bristol City Council's Community Housing team's PIE pilot. I will be working with the teams over the next 12 m...

My contract with Second Step as Lead on Psychological Therapies has now officially come to an end. Second Step is a leading mental health housing service se...

Having worked with many affiliated Royal College of GPs steering groups on adolescent mental health and safe guarding, I was very flattered to be invited to ...

The Bosence Young Peoples programme has continued to develop and establish itself since its launch last September. The team at Bosence are the kind of worke...

I am about to start work on a new programme with Bristol's Golden Key Project. Golden Key is an innovative and dynamic citywide partnership of people with e...

I am very excited to announce that I will be covering the Psychological Therapist for Reflective Practice for two days a week with Second Step. Second Step ...

It was a delight to speak at the Primary Care Child Safeguarding Conference last week. PCCSF is an independent professional organisation set up to support do...

I have just been invited to speak at the Royal College of GPs 10th PCCSF conference in Birmingham.The theme is Safeguarding Adolescents and will start with t...

I have just added a free E-Learning zone on my website. Research shows that refreshing knowledge after training through quizzes and puzzles helps to embed l...

I have just been asked to deliver training in adolescent development across Cornwall. The training courses are being funded by Children's Early Help, Psycho...

Places are still available on my courses for the Training Exchange Autumn Programme. All these courses are being delivered in Bristol. These include: Addic...

I have been invited to speak at the New Directions in the Study of Alcohol conference being held in Weston-super-Mare, UK. The New Directions in the Study o...

On Tuesday the 5th of July the builders moved in at Boswyns to begin building the extension that will become the young people's residential service. The new...

Choices (East) have adopted the the SPUR Triage and Quarto comprehensive assessment for young people. Developed with the Cornwall YZUP team, these tools wer...

I have just been invited to speak at the Royal College of Nursing. The talk will be on the work currently being developed with young people. It is schedule...