Health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families in Norfolk
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This report captures the work carried out by Healthwatch Norfolk in the period from October 2014 to June 2015. In this period they engaged with over 3,700 children, young people and parents to understand more about their attitudes to health and wellbeing and their experiences of local health and social care services. They worked in partnership with schools, children’s centres, youth provision and other voluntary organisations to conduct a range of surveys, focus group-type discussions and other engagement.
The views captured here are largely those of children and young people who are “well” and who do not have a particular experience of social care. This reflects the fact that the engagement was largely carried out in partnership with universal settings (schools and children’s centres) which 4 are used by all families in an area. Evidently, within this large sample group there will also be individuals with physical and learning disabilities, long-term conditions, special educational needs (SEN) or whose families have had extensive contact with social services. B
Five key themes came out of the research:
- Information for children and young people
- Wellbeing of children and young people
- Age appropriate delivery of services
- Variation in service delivery
- Children and young people shaping services