This guidance covers the design of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) accommodation for children and young people aged up to 18 years.

It provides full descriptions of rooms that are specific to CAMHS and are not contained in other health building notes (HBNs).

You can use the schedule of accommodation to calculate local project-specific requirements.

You can use the stakeholder needs and quality of life checklists to assess scheme compliance.

Published 30 June 2017.

Published 30 June 2017.

Published 30 June 2017.

Published 30 June 2017.

Published 30 June 2017.

HBN 03-02 does not cover low and medium secure facilities. This supplement to HBN 03-02 highlights the key additional requirements for low and medium secure environments.

Much of the environmental and space requirements outlined in the main HBN 03-02 and its parent HBN 03-01 for adults, where relevant, will apply to low or medium secure units and are not repeated in this supplement.

The HBN 03-01 supplement for low and medium secure adult facilities has been published at same time as this document. It is essential that this supplement be read in conjunction with the HBN 03 series of publications.

Separate schedule of accommodation, activity and component schedules are provided.

Published 13 November 2023.