While We Were Waiting
Download (PDF 446.77 KB)Summary of report content
In 2017, Healthwatch Stoke-on-Trent produced a report called ‘While We Were Waiting’. In partnership with the Stoke Parent Carer Forum the project aimed to better understand the experiences of people and their families whilst waiting for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This particular document forms a summary of the full report.
The report presents themes from conversations with participants including educational staff and parents. Information was gathered from semi structured interviews at events and focus groups, an interactive activity with a cultural animation and the development of a web page.
The summary provides the recommendations that were made in the full report and they include the following:
• There is some good practice in Wellbeing and Mental Health support for parents in school and this should be shared.
• There is some good practice in building relationships between schools and families. This should also be shared.
• There should be more promotion of routes into tier two services for staff and parents.
• Work in partnership with parents and families, moving away from a tiered system that encourages parents to evidence need.
• Parents could be systematically made aware of what they can expect in terms of service (the Local Offer).
At the time of publication there were no provider or commissioner responses to the report included.