Child Mental Health

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

CAMHS in Redbridge is provided by NELFT.  It is the area-based specialist mental health team providing support to children, young people, and their families, from birth to their 18th birthday. The service offers help to children and young people who are experiencing emotional, behavioural, or mental health difficulties including but not limited to anxiety disorders, depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  The service also offers specialist assessments for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Support is offered in a variety of settings such as specialist community clinics, home visits, school visits and support to hospital children’s wards and Emergency Departments (EDs). CAMHS works in a variety of ways, which includes face to face, telephone and video assessments, individual face to face talking therapies, family therapy and group work with CAMHS clinicians. During a child or young person’s development, there may be periods when their or their family’s ability to cope with difficult emotions or behaviour can put extreme pressures on relationships.

CAMHS works with children and young people as early on as possible experiencing difficulties to turn the situation around.

The CAMHS resource hub, where you will find links to a variety of helpful information on various topics. Resource Hub | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Referrals should be made to the Single Point of Access (SPA) using this referral form:

CAMHS Referral Form – April 2026 (Word)

CAMHS can also be contacted via SPAreferrals.Redbridge@nelft.nhs.uk or on 0300 300 1618 (Option 2).

Other Support

NHS 111 (Option2) connects you to a mental health crisis or urgent support line, where trained professionals can assess your situation and guide you to the right care (this could include crisis teams, advice, or local services). It’s meant for situations where you need urgent mental health help but it’s not an immediate life-threatening emergency.

INTERACT provides help to young people during increased difficult/crisis points in addition to other Mental Health Services. This would usually occur after a young person’s admission on to a general hospital ward or a visit to a hospital ED.

Tel. 0300 555 1156 option 3 and Website- Interact | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

999– Call 999, if there is immediate risk to life.