The Parent's Perspective.......
Today I'm delighted to introduce two blog sites run by parents and both have written a special blog for our week. Hayley Goleniowska is Mum to two girls, the youngest of whom has Down’s syndrome. Visit Hayley's …
Blogs
‘No decision about me, without me’ by Doris Corkin
Children and young people’s nurses are encouraged to consider how best to incorporate the 6Cs of nursing when developing their skills in the delivery of family-centred care and shared clinical decision-making (DH, 2012). Overall aim is to ensure patient safety, …
Occupational Therapist: facilitating and supporting children to be able to self-manage their difficulties by Karin Bishop
School should be an exciting, fun and stimulating time for all children, but for some it can be daunting, challenging and confusing. Things that some children seem to grasp easily can present as a baffling mystery to others. Practical tasks …
Family Nurse Partnership: Double generational prevention by Ailsa Swarbrick
“FNP has helped me move from being a teenager to being a responsible mum” (FNP mum) “I’m going to be the bedrock for my child” (FNP dad) Strong evidence tells us that teenage parents and their children are at higher …
Integrating services from conception to age 5yrs by Carey Oppenheim
Integration matters, because public services are there to respond to the needs of the people they serve, not the professionals or systems within them. The traditional silo model is not delivering the life changing outcomes we all want for children …
Embed and Extend by Elizabeth Harding
I am sitting in a hotel lobby listening to young people talking about how important it is that they are heard and that they know what happens to their views and opinions. "No-one really listens to young people and they …
Disability Matters by Layla Brokenbrow
Disability matters. It matters because what we believe about disability and what we believe it means to be disabled directly impacts (for better or worse) on the life experiences of disabled children and young people. The thoughts, fears, ideas and …
A Badge Mission today keeps the doctor away - Sharon Middleton
I remember a time in my childhood when I religiously ate an apple every day. It seemed like a habit worth making. Today, children and young people are ravenous for technology, habitually reaching for a piece of tech, generally with …
DIY Health (0-5yrs) by Susan Crane, Caroletha Irish and Fahima Yusuf
It’s a Thursday morning and we are all getting ready for another session of DIY Health. We (the local health visitors) have been working together – with the Children’s Centre,Bromley by Bow Centre, The Bromley by Bow Health Partnership and …
"What we say we need" by Amplify and Maggie Atkinson, Children's Commissioner
Amplify is the youth advisory group for the Children's Commissioner for England, aged between 11 and 18 years old. We advise her team at the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC) on everything they do from reports and research, to …
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