SBK Healthcare

Paediatrics

Thu 14 Jan 2027 09:00-16:10

Online Conference, 5 CPD Hours

Strengthen decision-making in Children’s Continuing Care

Come together with Children’s Continuing Care leads, nurse assessors, case managers, complex care nurses and clinical leads from across the NHS. Build confidence in understanding where health and social care responsibilities lie, navigate joint funding decisions and strengthen recommendations around support, respite and wider family needs.

This interactive forum will give you the opportunity to compare how other Children’s Continuing Care teams are managing these difficult decisions, work through complex cases and benchmark your approach to the CYPCC Framework and DST. Explore practical challenges around assessment, complex discharge, behavioural and developmental needs, mental capacity and transition into adult services, and leave better equipped to make clear, consistent decisions for children, young people and their families.

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Navigating Challenging Decisions in Children’s Continuing Care

Online 5 CPD hours From £299+VAT

Key learning outcomes

Build confidence in navigating complex Children’s Continuing Care decisions, from assessment and referral through to joint working, discharge and transition. You will leave this interactive online forum ready to:

Improve the quality and consistency of Children’s Continuing Care assessments and referrals by applying the CYPCC Framework and DST more effectively
Gain a greater understanding of social care’s responsibilities and strengthen your approach to joint funding, respite and wider family support
Overcome barriers to complex discharge by coordinating care, housing and wider services more effectively
Build confidence in decision-making for behavioural, developmental and non-physical health needs
Develop a clearer approach to mental capacity assessments and decision-making for young people aged 16+ including how capacity is assessed and recorded
Plan more effectively for transition into adult services by improving coordination, responsibilities and continuity of care

Live remote learning

Interactive online training: share, compare and improve

This interactive online forum will give you the opportunity to step away from day-to-day pressures, compare your practice with colleagues and work through the challenges you are facing in Children’s Continuing Care. Throughout the day, you will have the opportunity to:

Connect with Children’s Continuing Care colleagues from across the NHS and compare how others are approaching complex cases
Take part in guided discussions and shared learning around social care responsibilities, joint funding, assessment, discharge and transition
Ask questions and share your own challenges with expert speakers and peers throughout the day
Take away practical ideas and approaches that you can apply within your own service

9:00	Join, tech support and opportunity to network in your meeting room
9:30	Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Strengthening the assessment and referral process
9:40	Case study: Optimising your Children’s Continuing Care assessment process Working through a completed assessment from start to finish: applying DST domains and criteria in practice Identifying the information, evidence and assessment phrasing needed to clearly demonstrate level of need Strengthening the quality and consistency of your assessments to maximise potential for referral acceptance
10:10	Questions and answers with your speakers
10:20	Interactive discussion: Benchmarking your approach to implementing the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care What does the assessment and referral process look like in your service? Which parts of the CYPCC Framework or DST create the most uncertainty in practice? What would support greater consistency in implementing the CYPCC Framework?
10:40	Feedback from interactive discussion: Benchmarking your approach to implementing the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care
10:50	Screen break
Understanding social care responsibilities
11:00	Navigating social care responsibilities and joint funding in Children’s Continuing Care Clarifying health and social care responsibilities for children with complex needs Understanding joint funding where social care identifies no unmet need Strengthening recommendations for support, respite and wider family needs
11:30	Questions and answers with your speakers
11:40	Interactive discussion: Strengthening joint decision-making across health and social care Where are you experiencing uncertainty around Health and social care responsibilities? How are parental caring pressures and respite needs considered within social care assessments in your area? How are you overcoming disagreements or pressures around responsibility and funding when coordinating shared Continuing Care cases?
12:00	Feedback from interactive discussion: Strengthening joint decision-making across health and social care
12:10	Lunch break
Discharge planning for complex CYP
12:40	Overcoming barriers to complex discharge: coordinating care, housing and support for CYP Identifying and overcoming the key barriers delaying safe and timely discharge for CYP with complex needs Coordinating Health, Social care, housing and wider services to establish sustainable support for discharge Exploring alternative care pathways and next steps when discharge home is not immediately possible
1:10	Questions and answers with your speakers
Assessing complex behavioural and developmental needs
1:20	Assessing and supporting CYP with learning disabilities, autism or behaviours that challenge Building confidence in assessing behavioural, psychological and emotional needs alongside physical health needs Exploring gaps in provision for young people with LD/ASD and the impact on Continuing Care support Applying the DST more effectively to complex behavioural and non-physical needs
1:50	Questions and answers with your speaker
Supporting decision-making for young people aged 16+
2:00	Assessing mental capacity in young people aged 16+: strengthening confident Continuing Care decisions Recognising when a mental capacity assessment may be required within Continuing Care Applying a clear approach to assessing and recording capacity for young people with learning disabilities Supporting appropriate decision-making where a young person is unable to make a particular decision independently
2:30	Questions and answers with your speaker
2:40	Screen break
Preparing for transition into adult services
2:50	Supporting a successful transition from Children’s Continuing Care into adult services Starting transition planning early and establishing clear responsibilities and timescales Coordinating children’s and adult services to reduce gaps or delays in ongoing care Managing changes in assessment, eligibility and care arrangements as young people move into adult services
3:20	Questions and answers with your speaker
3:30	Interactive discussion: Overcoming transition challenges in practice Where are the biggest gaps between children’s and adult services in your area? How are you managing changes in eligibility and care packages through transition? What approaches are helping you achieve a smoother transition for CYP and families?
3:50	Feedback from interactive discussion: Overcoming transition challenges in practice
4:00	Chair’s closing remarks
4:10	Close of forum

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Pricing structure

£299 + VAT early bird rate (£50 off!) for NHS or public sector bookings made before 19th November 2026
£349 + VAT full price for one NHS or public sector place when booked after 19th November 2026
£299 + VAT colleague rate (£50 off!) for each NHS or public sector when booking 2-3 places
Fourth place FREE: team offer when you book 3 places at full price

Discount policy: Only one offer applies per booking

Commercial places are available, please contact Vanessa Jarman for further information

Reservations

How this online forum will work

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. 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.

Practice sessions are available and you will be sent an invitation to join one of our delegate practice sessions. 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. Please do pop in, say hello and make sure you are all set for the day.

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. 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.

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Terms and conditions

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event 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 but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

Now entering its sixth year, our Children’s Continuing Care programme has been bringing together NHS professionals working across Continuing Care and complex care since 2022. Based on attendance at our previous events, this online forum is particularly relevant for:

Children’s Continuing Care Leads, Clinical Leads and Managers
Continuing Care Nurse Assessors, Case Managers and Specialist Practitioners
Complex Care Nurses, Coordinators, Charge Nurses and Team Leaders
Children’s Community Nurses, Specialist Nurses and Community Lead Nurses
Matrons, Service Managers and Heads of Children’s Community and Complex Care services
Specialist Nurse Commissioners and Continuing Care Commissioning Nurse Assessors
Strategic Leads for Children’s Complex Health and professionals leading services for children with medical complexity
Senior and specialist nurses working across neurodisability, SEND, palliative care and complex health needs

Past attendee feedback

“Thought provoking content, excellent presentations from extremely knowledgeable speakers. Very well organised.”
Collaborative Approaches to Optimising Outcomes in Children’s Continuing Care, NHS Greater Manchester ICB (Wigan), January 2026

“Very well organised and insightful. Great opportunities to network and share experiences.”
Collaborative Approaches to Optimising Outcomes in Children’s Continuing Care, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, January 2026

“Great networking & sharing of information.”
Collaborative Approaches to Optimising Outcomes in Children’s Continuing Care, Frimley Health NHS Trust, January 2026

“The presentations were excellent, the group discussions were invaluable with lots of information to take away and reflect upon. It was interesting to see that all areas are facing similar challenges and different resolutions were offered and available.”
Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process, West Yorkshire ICB (Leeds), September 2024

“Great to learn about the experience of other staff in this field, different ways of working and different team approaches. Encouraging that most people seem to be experiencing the same issues!”
Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process, NHS North West London ICB Children’s Continuing Care Team, September 2024

“Very well organised and delivered. Great mix of presentations and group discussion.”
Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process, Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, September 2024

“This was a brilliant session with a really good balance of presentations and breakout sessions where you could share your views and thoughts.”
Evolving your Children’s Continuing Care Team, Herts and West Essex ICB, November 2023

“Being new to my team, it was really interesting to talk to others and understand how things are done in their area.”
Evolving your Children’s Continuing Care Team, NHS Sussex All Age Continuing Care, November 2023

“It was very good for networking and hearing what is happening in different areas. It was good to talk about how everyone else completes their DSTs and the gaps in the assessment.”
Children’s Continuing Care, Surrey Heartlands ICB, November 2022

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Navigating Challenging Decisions in Children’s Continuing Care