Young People with Disabilities
Continue the development and the awareness raising of the Young Carers Service.
Additional funding obtained to 2011 to pilot work with primary schools in South Central area of Newcastle, focusing on early identification, intervention and prevention particularly relating to substance misuse and mental health issues.
Young People with Long Term Health Conditions
- Develop/commission new services where adult services for young people with long-term healthcare needs are not available. Possibilities include:
- dedicated adolescent clinics (multi-disciplinary)
- Joint adult/child specialist clinics for conditions that are rare in childhood (e.g. rheumatology, haematology) and
- handover clinics to provide an introduction for young people to adult services and clinicians
- Ensure transition planning and services for young people are included when setting quality standards.
Young Offenders and those at risk of offending
- Pilot programmes enabling young people with learning difficulties/ behavioural problems aged 11+ to stay engaged in education, not end up socially excluded.
- Build on the strengths of existing partnerships with voluntary sector youth providers.
- Learn from the Neighbourhood Renewel Funded Working with Racially Aggravated Perpetrators (WRAP) project and extend this across the City.
Young Carers
- Improve take up of Young Carers Service support by schools to ensure proactive transitions between Primary and Secondary schools and continued support by schools.
- Obtain a mandate and develop clear and active mechanisms for Adult Services to identify, support and refer young carers.
- Improve services for 18-25 year old carers.
- Improve take up by all services of Young Carer Awareness training particularly the impact on emotional wellbeing and future prospects if early identification not achieved.