The Market Engagement - CYP participation and co-production Offer

Tender description

Norfolk & Waveney is committed to ensuring Children, Young People and their families have a voice and inform the development and delivery of the support they receive for their physical and mental health. This offer (‘the offer’) aims to: 1. Build on and coordinate existing participation and engagement networks across all age groups 0-25 yrs 2. Focus on under 11s and CYP experiencing health inequalities which represent identified participation and engagement gaps existing across our system • To integrate ‘the offer’ into existing local participation and coproduction networks and add value to existing offers • To maintain and embed the Youth Governance Group – continue prioritising YGG members input in all aspects of the Integrated Care Board’s CYPMH team’s work • To provide CYP participation and coproduction support to the whole range of physical and mental health services e.g. paediatrics, asthma, epilepsy • To give particular focus to engaging CYP who experience health inequalities, these may include, but are not restricted to: SEND, CYP with long term conditions, BAME, EAL (English as an Additional Language) communities, LGBTQ+, Gypsy Roma communities, refugee and immigrant communities, CYP open to social care, and CYP with physical disabilities. • To uphold the CYP Mental Health Charter as a key tool in bringing the voice of children and young people into CYPMH system and service development and improvement • Work with education setting’s ‘school councils’ to involve the broadest range of voices in participation and co-production work support. • Collaborate with the adult/all-age participation and co-production initiatives to support partnership working, shared community access points, and less risk of duplication. • Support health service’s staff recruitment processes with CYP participation. • Proactively enable CYP and families to support service improvements by testing and piloting new service tools, processes or forms etc.