Children & Young People’s Emotional Health & Wellbeing Network (Sefton)

Date: Thursday 24th November 2016 Time: 10:00 – 11:30

Venue: Sefton Care Leavers' Centre, Our Place Sefton, Brunswick Place, the Esplanade, Waterloo, L22 5RN

In attendance:Abbey Robinson – Sefton CAMHSBob Wilkinson – Southport SamaritansCatherine Brindle – LCH Specialist School Nurse

Lynn Loughran – Chair/Sefton CVSRachel McCluskey – PSS Sefton Young CarersSuzanne Farrell – Halo/SENDIASS

Apologies:Alex Walker – 1st Steps Day NurseryCaroline Roberts – Sefton Carers Centre

Caroline Scott – Sefton CVS

Dwayne Johnson – Sefton MBC, Director of H&SCHelen Leach – RASA CentreJo Benbow – Well YP

Nicky Fearon – Mersey CareSandra Scott – ADHD Foundation Vicky Killen – Vice Chair/Sefton CAMHS

1. Welcome and appointment of note-taker Actions/InformationLynn thanked all for coming and explained that the low turnout was due to the OFSTED inspection and Parent Carers event.Lynn agreed to take notes.2. Introductions and update from membersLynn, Sefton CVS – CYP Mental Health Services Co-ordinator and Chair of the Network, represents VCF Sector on CYP Emotional Health and Wellbeing Steering Group, chaired by Dwayne Johnson. Also leads on SEAS (Sefton Emotional Achievement Service), a consortium of 6 local organisations delivering emotional health and wellbeing services in schools.Rachel, PSS Young Carers – they work with young carers and their families across Sefton, one-to-one and in groups. Sefton Young Carers have produced a short film, “Our Journey,” following a successful youth-led funding bid last year, which is due to be launched on 28th November at SPACE.Abbey, Sefton CAMHS – CAMHS has a Single Point of Access and primary and specialist mental health teams. Abbey is new in post (started this week).Catherine – Specialist School Nurse, Emotional Health and Wellbeing – Catherine supports school nurses to deliver emotional health and wellbeing support and is currently delivering STORM training in Suicide Mitigation and Self-harm to the team.Bob, Southport Samaritans – Samaritans has a central office and 201 branches across the country. The Southport branch has strong links with local further education colleges and attends Fresher’s Fairs and mental health events. They are working hard to develop links with the local VCF sector and schools. They don’t ask callers to their helpline for their age so can’t be certain but Bob believes they are getting increasing numbers of young people calling for support. This may be partly due to lack of capacity of Childline,

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who they work in partnership with, but also due to Samaritans’ Confidentiality Policy. They offer free emotional health sessions for schools and have a variety of free resources available for teachers, including lesson plans, and will also give talks to teachers. Their Confidentiality Policy does not apply when working in schools as they work in line with the school’s Safeguarding Policy. They have a free resource, DEAL (Developing Emotional Awareness and Listening) which is aimed at Year 9s upwards. Their Step-by-Step programme supports schools after a suicide or suicide attempt. They also have a presentation for staff on self-harm.Suzanne, HALO/SENDIASS – SENDIASS support parents and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in education. HALO is a support service for families, offering programmes around resilience building, ADHD and autism. They deliver training in schools and work jointly with CAMHS. They are able to offer accredited autism training through Lottery funding. Professional can make a referral via www.halocic.co.uk. SENDIASS/HALO have 3 staff and they are dealing with a lot of crisis cases as Sefton children not in school have increased 40% on last year. They have some training courses planned and Suzanne will send the details to Lynn for circulation.3. Notes of last meetingNotes of previous meetings are available on the Network webpage at https://seftoncvs.org.uk/areas-of-work/cypf/children-young-peoples-emotional-health-wellbeing-network/The last two meetings’ notes were reviewed as July’s notes were not available at the September meeting.At the July meeting, the lack of funding for ADHD parenting interventions was raised. Suzanne informed the group that HALO could apply for some funding to run sessions at their centre in Formby as they already have programmes written, ready to run. They are setting up some focus groups to assess need as they have had enquires about running programmes for siblings and for Polish parents.4. Discussion: Defining vulnerable groups in SeftonItem carried forward to next meeting, when we hope to have more people to contribute to the discussion.5. Computerised CBT PilotAbbey explained that she will be leading on a pilot of a computerised CBT programme, Camp Cope-A-Lot, with the aim of obtaining feedback prior to roll-out. The pilot will be conducted in a primary school to year 5/6s in the New Year and Abbey asked the group for suggestions and contact details. The school should be in the Maghull or Southport area, have a room with computers and a TA available. Suggestions and contact details were given to Abbey.She will come back to the group with feedback after delivery of the pilot.6. CYP IAPT updateStanding agenda item but no one present to update.7. Any other businessNorth West Coast Strategic Clinical Networks - Children & Young People’s Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing “Transformation One Year On” event, 7th December - Online booking for this event is now open. To secure your place, please register here (Lynn has previously circulated this information).Talking Eating Disorders (TED) conference, 3rd March, St George’s Hall, Liverpool – this full day event has the theme of Rethinking Recovery, Relapse and Relationships. Tickets

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are £90 per person (£45 for students). See the attached flyer for details.Dates of future meetings Friday 3rd February 2017, 10am to 12 noon, SENDIASS, Redgate Annexe, Formby,

L37 4EW Thursday 13th April 2017, 1.30pm to 3.30pm, venue to be agreed – this is during

school holidays and will be ‘young people friendly’

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