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Agenda item

Agenda item

UNIVERSAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

To receive a presentation from Claire Mills, Public Health Lead Commissioner, Leicester City Council, on “Healthy Together: universal school age offer.”

Minutes:

Claire Mills, Public Health Lead Commissioner, Leicester City Council, Sarah Fenwick, Senior Group Manager, FYPC, Leicestershire Partnership Trust and Catherine Yeomanson, Lead Practice Teacher, School Nursing, Leicestershire Partnership Trust gave a presentation on “Healthy Together: universal school age offer.”  A copy of the presentation had been circulated with the agenda.

 

It was noted that:-

 

·         The local Healthy Child Programme universal offer for 0-19 year olds in the city, commissioned by the Council and provided by the Leicestershire Partnership Trust, represented £33.5 m investment over for 4 years.

·         There were approximately 5,000 new births in city and public health nurses were involved in various aspects of care for 0-19 year olds.

·         The programme provided a universal service that used a range of public health tools to respond swiftly and appropriately to need, in order to promote resilience and maximise the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families in Leicester.  

·         Assessments were made an early stage following a referral to determine the impact on a child and the whole family.  Emotional health was at the centre of the service and those using the service were reviewed at regular intervals.

·         There had been a number of public health campaigns and the service also offered an interactive phone service, a website for teenagers to chat about issues affecting them (including a parents section) and virtual clinics.  There were strong governance and safeguarding arrangements in place to protect users from harm.

·         A new crisis team had provided support for young people without them need to visit their GP or attend A&E.  The service was underpinned by safeguarding arrangements and supported by a good evidence base.

·         The Assessment Framework training for 0-19 staff had been reconfigured to strengthen supporting young vulnerable people and parents.

·         The emotional health pathway had a robust risk assessment embedded into the framework, which every practitioner has to complete.  There was also an assessment of how people were using the screening tools to see if practitioners made a difference and this would hard evidence would be used to see if more specialist resources were required.

 

Members commented that:-

 

  • There was no reference to the criminal justice system in the presentation. 
  • Chief Supt. Lee commented that the triage car working with health colleagues had been a success in dealing with people with mental health issues. There was also a small team of Police Officers looking at longer term issues in working with health colleagues, Police Neighbourhood teams also went into schools and they had some specialist officers that could link into the service.  Chief Supt. Lee undertook to discuss this with the officers after the meeting.
  • It was recognised that the youth offending and probation teams could be better aligned so that they could be better engaged.  This had been recognised in the commissioning of the service and there was now a link with youth offending officers.

 

Following a question from the Chair in relation to parity of esteem in children’s services across mental and physical health, it was confirmed this was well recognised within the various services that worked closely together.

 

It was also noted that a feature of the CAMHS service in Leicester was that it was integrated into the same management team system as the universal service, which meant that the both services were closely linked and not competing with each other.

 

The Chair thanked officers for their contributions.

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