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Programme Consultant: Keren Corbett
CAMHS Programme Specialist: Fran Tummey
Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) Project Manager: Sallyann Sutton
CAMHS Project Manager: Joanne Treacy
Programme Specialist - Children with Disabilities: Eleri Matthews
CAMHS Workforce Lead: Carolyn Gavin
Programme Administrator: Lorraine Barnes
Recent News
Aiming high for disabled children: delivering improved health services
Published by NHS Confederation (Sept 2009)
The NHS Confederation, the membership body for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England, has published a new report which brings together the policy framework and best practice in relation to health services for disabled children. It draws on examples of services for disabled children that meet users’ needs, respond to the government agenda and are effective from both a quality and a cost point of view. The report states:
‘Evidence shows that the best way to commission effective services for disabled children is when PCTs and local authorities work in partnership.’
This report follows the Every Disabled Child Matter’s campaign report ‘Disabled Children and Health’, launched in June 2009.
Download at: Aiming high for disabled children: delivering improved health services
Promoting young people's social and emotional wellbeing in secondary education
Summary
This guidance is for all those who have a responsibility for the social and emotional wellbeing of young people in secondary education. This includes teachers, support staff, governors and professionals with public health as part of their remit working in education (including the independent sector) ...
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This guidance is for all those who have a responsibility for the social and emotional wellbeing of young people in secondary education. This includes teachers, support staff, governors and professionals with public health as part of their remit working in education (including the independent sector), local authorities, the NHS and the wider public, voluntary and community sectors.
It focuses on interventions to support all young people aged 11-19 who attend any education establishment.
Social and emotional wellbeing includes being happy, confident and in control, with the ability to solve and cope with problems and have good relationships with other people.
The six recommendations cover: strategy, the key principles and conditions, working in partnership with parents, families and young people, the curriculum, and training and professional development. They include:
- Secondary education establishments should have access to the specialist skills, advice and support they require.
- Practitioners should have the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to develop young people’s social and emotional wellbeing.
- Secondary education establishments should provide a safe environment which nurtures and encourages young people’s sense of self-worth, reduces the threat of bullying and violence and promotes positive behaviour.
- Social and emotional skills education should be tailored to the developmental needs of young people.
For a copy of the guidance, follow this link: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH20
A summary of existing knowledge and practice about effective interventions to help chldren in a school context who would broadly be described as having behavioural, social or emotional problems. Intended for anyone involved in planning services for the TaMHS pathfinder project, including senior school staff.
http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/health/tmhsproject