Topics of the conference included

Plenary sessions

• An ounce of prevention: Using inclusive teen social skills groups to prevent and minimise the risk of sexual offending and reoffending - Dr Laurie Spelly

• Addressing the needs of young people with special educational needs - Hannah Smithson

• Experiences of people with learning difficulties and their families - Chrissie Rogers

• Hospital Discharges and Transforming Care -  John Taylor

• Improving life changes - Alison Giraud-Saunders and Derek Lee

• Keep Safe - an intervention for adolescents with ID - Aida Malovic and Melanie Turpin

• Transforming care - our stories - Tim Nicholls

• Understanding the population - Verity Chester

Concurrent sessions

• (In)secure care - compassion focussed forensic psychotherapy - Jon Taylor

• Adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities - Rogier De Groot

• Assessing violence risk in autism - Carlo Thomas

• Development of a substance abuse programme - Joseph Sakdalan and Sabine Visser

• Development of an ID Sexual Offender Treatment Program - Joseph Sakdalan and Sabine Visser

• Development of pre admission pathway within an Inpatient Autism Service - Helen Percival, Chris Ince and Gemma Evans

• Engaging with families - a family support service - Danielle Mayes and Kelly Tompkins

• From Fixed to Flexible - Joanne Sharp, Michelle Small and Matthew McCourt

• Implementation of STOMP-LD in a tertiary inpatient setting - Chris Ince and Helen Percival

• Is FASD a stalking horse  - Anthony Duncan

• Making wise choices - sexual - The Development of DBT-Informed Offence Programmes - Joanne Sharp, Michelle Small and Eleni Gaga

• Making wise choices about offending - Joanne Sharp, Michelle Small and Eleni Gaga

• Meeting the COMMUNICATION needs of individuals within a ID Low Secure Service - Martine Lascelles

• Personal recovery perspectives of individuals with an intellectual disability who offended - Natalie Aga

• Safe, supportive and kind - Bunny Forsyth, Jen Moore and Emma Phipps

• Schwartz Center Rounds - Emma Groves and Rachel Collinson

• Staff and service user reflections on the development of an MSU ward - Sian Allen and Daniel Crowson

• The application of the Good Lives Model - Vicky Hoggard and Brian Quinn

• The use of dialectical behaviour therapy - Joseph Sakdalan and Sabine Visser

• Therapy for the Therapist - Joanne Sharp and Michelle Small

• This test says you are malingering - Joseph Sakdalan and Sabine Vissier

• Violence risk assessment in autism - Carlo Thomas

• Why compassion matters - forensics and neurodevelopmental conditions - Teresa Turner

• You go on a bit of a journey with them - Hayley Lyon and Emma Groves