Sleep? What Helps?

One day conference

November 6th 2008, Birmingham, UK

This national Conference is part of Handsel Trust’s Sleep Initiative - working with other organisations to get more help to more families in England, Wales and N. Ireland. (Scotland already has excellent support from Sleep Scotland, www.sleepscotland.org)

Our research has revealed significant unmet need in families with a disabled, child, young person or adult. In our estimation, over 100,000 such families are sleep-deprived and going without help.

The ‘Sleep. What Helps?’ Conference is aimed at service managers and practitioners who want to find out what sort of help is possible and the implications of setting up a sleep servive. The Conference though does not aim to give practitioners new skills or give solutions to any family’s sleep problems.

At the Conference the Trust will launch its new publication, Sleep. What helps? This will be a valuable resource to support all practitioners who work with families and who are asked to offer some initial help with their sleep issues.

The Conference programme is being developed now and guest speakers will include:

• Dr Philippa Russell, Chair, Standing Commission on Carers
• Dr. Luci Wiggs, Dept. of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University
• Jessica Underhill, Research Fellow, Chailey Heritage Clinical Services
• Dr. Victoria McGrigor, Southampton Children’s Sleep Disorders Service
• Jane Wright, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Disabled Children, Mansfield PCT

The full programme will be avialble here in due course. Contact me in the meantime if you wish to register your interest.

Peter Limbrick
Chair
Handsel Trust
Tel/fax: 01497 831550
p.limbrick@virgin.net