Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum 2027

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum 2027
Free to attend 3 CPD Hours
Online Forum, 3 CPD hours
Wed 24 Feb 2027 09:00-12:45

Optimise your CWP role by adapting interventions and improving access for disadvantaged populations 

Join CWPs from across the country for a free, online morning of shared learning, practical insights and professional development. Discover examples of best practice, explore solutions to common challenges, and hear from experts about the opportunities for progression within your role.

Designed to strengthen your everyday practice, this forum will help you develop a more informed approach to neurodiversity, navigate the challenges faced by children and young people, and reinforce professional boundaries.

Improve low-intensity practice

Adapt interventions, improve access and strengthen your CWP role

Benefit from an invaluable morning of networking and learning from expert-led presentations. Explore how to adapt low-intensity interventions for neurodivergent children and young people, respond to complex presentations and improve access for underserved populations. Develop your understanding of CWP role boundaries, professional identity and opportunities for ongoing development. Hear updates on: 

  • Adapting affirming practices for neurodiverse children
  • Making low-intensity interventions work for complex presentations 
  • Understanding how to improve engagement within disadvantaged populations 
  • Navigating issues affecting young people: education, employment and beyond 
  • Exploring CWP role boundaries, professional identity and career development

Advance your approach

Invest in your practice and connect with colleagues from across the UK 

Join this free forum to identify the solutions to your challenges and gain valuable insights from both our expert speakers and your peers. By sharing in examples of best practice, you will take away practical strategies to implement within your team to strengthen your approach, overcome common challenges, and make a meaningful difference in your work. This dedicated time will enable you to: 

  • Connect with fellow professionals to share challenges, insight and solutions
  • Gain actionable takeaways from expert led sessions and like-minded colleagues 
  • Refresh your approach with practical ideas to implement in your service 
  • Strengthen your confidence in offering wide-reaching support and boosting engagement

Opportunities to sponsor

Connect with CWPs and showcase how your organisation can support their work 

Talking Therapies National Networking Forums enable providers of Talking Therapy technology and treatments to support healthcare professionals. If you would like to sponsor a forum like this, please email Vanessa Jarman or call Vanessa on 01732 897788 to find out about all the engagement and branding opportunities available.


9:00
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Sonny Lanca, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner and Associate Lecturer, CHUMS and University of Worcester
Accessible interventions
9:40
Developing neurodiversity-affirming practices and adapting interventions for complexities
  • How to make low-intensity interventions work effectively for neurodiversity
  • Adapting interventions without losing low-intensity focus
  • Managing difficulties where standard CWP approaches may not fit easily
Sonny Lanca, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner and Associate Lecturer, CHUMS and University of Worcester
10:05
Supporting children and young people with physical health conditions
  • Case study: development and delivery of The Lucy Project
  • Using tailored low-intensity interventions to deliver care to children with physical health conditions
  • Exploring the trajectory and integration of The Lucy Project nationally
  • How The Lucy Project helped develop the CWP professional identity
Abbie Goodwin, Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, The Lucy Project
10:30
Questions and answers with your speakers
Industry partner showcase
10:40
Sponsored presentation
10:50
Questions and answers with your sponsors
10:55
Meet the sponsor session
11:05
Screen break
11:15
Interactive discussion: Optimising adaptations to maximise support
  • What adaptations have you found most helpful when delivering low-intensity interventions to neurodivergent children and young people?
  • How can we adapt standard CWP approaches to meet individual needs whilst still maintaining therapeutic effect?
  • What challenges arise when standard interventions don’t fit and what practical strategies do you use to help overcome these?
11:25
Feedback from interactive discussion: Optimising adaptations to maximise support
Reaching underserved populations
11:35
Improving access for underrepresented and underserved populations
  • Exploring the CWP contribution to children experiencing intersecting disadvantage
  • Understanding how to co-produce approaches alongside young people to improve engagement
  • Navigating issues affecting young people who are NEET
12:00
Questions and answers with your speaker
12:10
Screen break
12:20
Interactive discussion: Extending your outreach to underserved populations
  • What barriers prevent children and young people from accessing your service, and how are you addressing them?
  • How are you meaningfully co-producing services with young people to make interventions relevant to their needs?
  • How can you extend your outreach to young people who are NEET?
12:30
Feedback from interactive discussion: Extending your outreach to underserved populations
Defining the CWP role
12:40
Exploring expectations, boundaries and career progression within the CWP role
  • Clarifying CWP role boundaries, particularly when working with complex presentations
  • Considering how the CWP role can contribute within MHSTs while maintaining a clear professional identity
  • Exploring when additional therapeutic approaches may be appropriate within CWP practice
  • Opportunities for ongoing professional development for CWPs
1:05
Questions and answers with your speaker
1:15
Chair’s closing remarks and close of morning

An expert line-up

Strengthen interventions, improve access and develop your practice

Hear from experts in the CWP field to explore developments shaping the future of your service, care and outcomes for the children and young people you work with. 

Sonny Lanca

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner and Associate Lecturer
CHUMS and University of Worcester

A free online forum

Free to attend for NHS, Public Sector and Charity Attendees 

Please only book a place if you are able to attend on the day as this forum will not be recorded. If you book a place and your circumstances change, meaning you are unable to attend, please inform us in writing to bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk at least 48 hours prior to the course taking place.

Failure to attend without prior written correspondence will result in a £100 charge.

Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this day please email Vanessa Jarman for further details.

What happens next?

Once you have registered your place on Zoom, the bookings team here at SBK Healthcare will approve your registration within 5 working days. You will receive a formal confirmation via email once your registration is approved. 

If you do not receive an email from SBK Healthcare please email us at bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788.

Within one week of the online conference taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the conference.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

How this forum works

If you are unsure of Zoom or how to access the conference on the day, practice sessions are available. These are optional but great if you are unsure of whether your camera and microphone will work on Zoom. We hold several one hour practice sessions across the week when a member of SBK Healthcare staff will be waiting in Zoom to assist you, sure you are all set for the day. If you would like to request one of these practice sessions please email the bookings team.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the conference by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. In groups of between 6-10 people, you will be admitted into the main conference room to be greeted by a member of SBK staff. In the same group you will be taken into a breakout room and asked to turn on your video and microphone. A member of the SBK team will get your group started with some orientation tasks and ‘ice breaker’ topics, before leaving you to network.

When you are automatically brought back into the conference room for the start of the conference, you will be asked to turn off your camera and microphone so that the chair can start the forum. During each presentation you will be able to ask questions in the chat box function. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Terms and conditions

Modify registration
To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk.
 
Cancellations and substitutions
This online forum is free to attend to all NHS and Public Sector attendees. Please note that you can cancel your place up to 48 hours prior to the conference taking place, failure to attend without prior written cancellation will result in £100 charge. You can email the bookings team to cancel or amend an existing booking. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.
 
Conference changes
It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes. Should the event be postponed for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

 
Certificate of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every attendee, as a record of continuing professional training and development.
 
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Connect with peers

Connect with CWPs and colleagues supporting low-intensity children and young people’s mental health provision 

This interactive online forum has been developed with the needs of Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners in mind, so we can expect attendance from: 

  • Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners 
  • Senior CWPs and CWP Supervisors 
  • Service Managers
  • Clinical Leads
  • CAMHS Clinicians

Past attendee feedback

Now heading into its 3rd year, our successful Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner events have received a plethora of positive feedback from a wide range of attendees nationally. Hear what they’ve had to say: 

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“This was a great session, hearing from a range of speakers about their experiences, research and teaching was fantastic and really eye opening”
- Blackpool NHS, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, February 2026
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“Very enjoyable and informative presentations, the day felt productive and useful”
- Sefton CAMHS, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, February 2026
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“Highly informative, it came just at the right time for our service”
- Blackpool CYP PMHS, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, February 2026
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“It was great to speak with others in the field to gain ideas from each other”
- CHUMS, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, February 2026
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“Very well organised forum, I felt the day ran very smoothly. Interesting and relevant presentations by passionate and experienced people. Really enjoyed the day!”
- Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025
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“Really professional and friendly. Enjoyed hearing from all the speakers, who were extremely knowledgeable and covered a wide range of relevant topics”
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025
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“It was a really good opportunity to meet other CWP’s, learn about the organisations they work in, and develop insight into the role”
- Berkshire Healthcare, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025

Attend as a sponsor

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing talking therapies forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully  immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Your event, managed by us

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:

Vanessa Jarman
Contact: 01732 897788
Email: vanessa.jarman@sbk-healthcare.co.uk