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Young People's Health Partnership Newsletter
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About the Young People's Health Partnership
The Young People’s Health Partnership is a part of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance and represents the interests of young people and young adults aged 10 – 25. We focus specifically on young people facing health inequalities. We are a partnership of six organisations with voluntary and community networks across England from the youth and young people’s health sectors.
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As part of our work on the NHS Long Term Plan and to support young people's voices to be heard we collaborated with NHS England, the NHS Youth Forum, RCPCH and iwill to organise and run a Youth Voice Summit.
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The summit took place on the 23rd of April in London and over 100 young people attended to share their insights on the role of young people in shaping the future of health and care. The young people met with some of the most senior leaders in the NHS to co-create ideas and strategies to take forward the NHS Long Term Plan, including how it can be implemented locally. Simon Stevens the Chief Executive of the NHS attended the meeting to hear what young people have to say, as well as Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer, Yvonne Coghill, Director of Workforce Race Equality Standard Implementation, Dido Harding, Chair of NHS Improvement and Tara Donnelly, Chief Digital Officer.
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Supporting Young People's Mental Health
YPHP has been on the road! As part of the Health & Wellbeing Alliance's additional work programme we led 2 projects with the support of our HWA partners to help improve the mental health & wellbeing of children and young people and to improve understanding about young people not in employment, education or training who experience common mental health issues. We have been travelling to local PHE centres to share the messages and key themes that came out of the engagement work from these projects and to ask local professionals and commissioners where the gaps are and what actions can help them to support young people.
The workshops were very successful with lots of valuable engagement and insights. We are now working on the final versions of the toolkit and resources from the projects and will send a special edition of the newsletter with all the products shortly!
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Activity Update
Social Prescribing
YPHP partners, UK Youth and StreetGames worked together to share a blog and webinar on social prescribing for young people and how local action, for and by local people can help create healthier, fairer, safer places for young people to grow up in. StreetGames will host the first ever national showcase for young people's social prescribing on the 21st of May. The event will be open to all practitioners, commissioners, academics and policy makers who have an interest in social prescribing for children, young people and families.
Student Health
In March YPHP attended the APPG on Young People' Health at the House of Lords. At the meeting young people who had been involved in the engagement process for the NHS Long Term Plan discussed what they wanted from the plan and their reflections on the final plan with Richard Owen, Head of Quality Strategy and Dr Jacqueline Cornish, National Director Children Young People and Transitions into Adulthood from NHS England.
Primary Care Networks
In April YPHP joined a working group to discuss how emerging Primary Care Networks in England can develop excellent relationships with local VCSE organisations, with a focus on the context of personalised care for all patients from all ages and backgrounds.
Youth Mental Health
Youth Access are designing a simple online resource to help young people navigate the mental health system and are asking for young people's help to design the tool. The resource will help young people find out what kind of support is available, how they should be treated by a service, and what to do if they feel that they aren't being treated fairly.
Young People & Addiction
Addaction featured on the 'Beating Addictions' episode of BBC 1 Xtra Talks, where young people spoke about their experiences of addiction and the challenges faced when whilst recovering from addiction.
To access all of the resources produced by YPHP and read more about our work, please visit our website. You can also follow us on twitter to find out more about current & future work and get involved.
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Information Sharing
NHS England is holding a survey of the mental health of children looked after by local authorities in England. The the first of these surveys to be carried out since 2002 it will provide an update on the prevalence of mental health conditions and help improve understanding of the drivers of poor mental health in looked after children, and inform how their wider mental health needs can be better met, the development of local services and future training for professionals.
The Partnership for Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools is seeking a new Chair to lead their national network of more than 50 organisations from the eduction, health and wellbeing and children's sectors to support schools and services to improve the wellbeing and mental health of all children in education.
The motion to approve the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education regulations and guidance was passed in the House of Lords this month, which means that from September 2020 it will be compulsory for all schools to teach health education.
NHS England is seeking the views of people who have experience of personal health budgets, integrated personal budgets and personal wheelchair budgets to help prioritise their work and support local and national quality improvement.
Public Health England have published new All Our Health e-learning tools, which contain signposting to trusted sources of helpful evidience, guidance and support to help professionals embed prevention into their everyday practice. Included in the resources are sessions on safeguarding, MindEd and adolescent health.
The State of Caring survey 2019 is open to anyone caring unpaid for a disabled, older or seriously ill relative or friend. The survey results will help show what it is like to be a carer in 2019 and understand how services and support are delivered.
NHS England will hold a webinar on 9 May to give an update on the Long Term Plan and opportunities for the VCSE sector.
A new framework created by our Alliance partners has been published which highlights the principles which health & disability organisations in the VCSE support and outlines actions for building consensus to help support disabled employees and employees with long term conditions to remain in and return to work.
The NHS Youth Forum has made a short film to share ideas and resources on how teachers can help young people with health related issues to feel supported and understood.
New restraint reduction network training standards commissioned by the NHS have been published. The new standards provide a national and international benchmark for training in supporting people who are distressed in education, health and social care settings
A new podcast from NHS England explores how health and care systems can involve local charities and social enterprises in the most effective way. Featuring different perspectives and examples of how joined-up working is making a difference to patients, communities and staff, the podcast provides useful insights into how to maximise local assets to transform care.
A new resource to help public services become trauma-informed to support women’s mental health has been created by our Alliance partners. The Engaging with Complexity resource is informed by a review of literature and consultations involving women with expertise by experience and professionals with an interest in trauma-informed approaches.
The Department of Health and Social Care’s voluntary sector team’s newsletter includes updates on the work of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance and news from the DHSC, NHS England and Public Health England. Sign up for the newsletter here.
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About the Health and Wellbeing Alliance
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