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 …
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. 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
My oldest son Simon is fifty in two weeks time. Half centuries are good times in which to reflect both on the past and on the future. As the parent of a son with brain damage and learning disability, I …
Welcome to day four our week on helping families and giving children and young people the best start to life. This short blog is to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may …
I often say I have been involved with vaccination and immunisation for more years than I really care to think about. As a midwife, practice nurse, health visitor and specialist nurse. As such I am unashamedly passionate about it, wanting …
You might remember the scene in the film Shirley Valentine in which Shirley recounts the discovery of her clitoris. I do because I was watching it with my mother. I didn’t exactly squirm with embarrassment but it did generate a …
