Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services
NELFT offer a range of services which are accessible to Children and Young People across Kent and Medway.
Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
To contact the service, you or someone on your behalf can call:
Kent and Medway CYPMHS
Freephone: 0800 011 3474
If your concerns escalate about your child or young person, please call NHS 111 - mental health help 'Option 2'.
If it is an emergency, immediate danger to life or safety, dial 999 or visit Accident and Emergency (A&E).
To make a referral please visit our how to refer page and follow the guidance provided.
If your referral is for ADHD or Autism Diagnostic Assessment please check the table on the NELFT website to ensure that your child is referred to the correct service, as some of these services are provided by other NHS trusts.
Within this service there are specialist and crisis support as well as Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital
Emotional Wellbeing Teams Kent (known nationally as MHST)
The Emotional Wellbeing Teams are school based and can support with early intervention Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing needs. To see if this service is available, please find your school
Support from this service comes through a discussion between the school and the service, we call this meeting an “Enquiry Review”. These discussions will help the school know how to support, alongside which service is best placed to offer intervention should it be needed. Other access points are on the ways to request support page
Primary Care Network (PCN) Mental Health Practitioners (MHP)
PCN MHP are specially trained clinicians embedded in GP surgeries to help children and young people with early intervention emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Please see our website to find out which GP surgeries we operate in. GPs in these named areas can support with access.
All Age Eating Disorder
The All-Age Eating Disorder Service (AADS) for Kent and Medway is a specialist service. The service aims to bring hope and confidence, through help and support, to those who have an eating disorder, to enable them to take back control of their life by overcoming their eating disorder.
The minimum age for referrals to this service is 8-years-old.
To refer please complete the referral form and return to KentandMedwayEatingDisordersService@nelft.nhs.uk.
Please see the NELFT website for further information.