Agenda item

Children & Young Peoples response to Health & Wellbeing Strategy (PULSE)

Minutes:

A report was presented by members of PULSE – Lancashire Children and Young People's Health and Wellbeing Board.

 

It was reported that the aim of the report was to give young people's views on the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Strategy, promote the work of PULSE and explore how the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board and PULSE could work together in the future.

 

PULSE believe that children and young people's views about health and wellbeing are important and should be gathered, shared, listened to and acted upon.

 

The aims of PULSE are:

 

·  To make a positive difference to children and young people’s health and wellbeing.

·  To make sure the voice of children and young people is heard by decision makers.

·  To advise these decision makers on how to make health services and health education more children and young people friendly.

 

The current priorities of PULSE are:

 

·  Making sure the voices of children and young people are heard by decision makers.

·  Emotional Health and Wellbeing.

·  Substance Misuse (including alcohol and tobacco).

·  Access to health information and services.

 

PULSE presented Young People’s Views on the Health and Wellbeing Strategy:

 

·  Mental Health and Wellbeing, Early Response to Domestic Violence, Long Term Conditions and Support for Carers were seen as being most important to young people.

·  All of the remaining priorities/ actions were identified as being important to young people by at least one of the groups involved.

 

It was recognised that the following actions from the Health and Wellbeing Strategy link to PULSE priorities

 

·  Smoking in Pregnancy.

·  Alcohol Liaison Nurses.

·  Self Care - Encouraging People to Take Control of their own Health and Wellbeing.

 

Suggestions were presented for how PULSE and the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board could work together:

·  PULSE would like to support the Health and Wellbeing Board with our identified priorities i.e. Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Substance Misuse, Access to Health Information.

·  PULSE would also like to offer support with the areas of the Strategy which we feel are most important to young people i.e. domestic violence and long term conditions.

·  Representatives from PULSE would like to attend relevant Health and Wellbeing Board meetings and would like to invite the Board to attend relevant PULSE meetings.

·  PULSE would welcome discussions about:

o  how we could be kept updated on the work of the Health and Wellbeing Board

o  how the Health and Wellbeing Board could be kept updated on the work of PULSE

o  how children and young people’s views should be shared with the Board and wider groups

·  PULSE would like the Health and Wellbeing Board to help us champion the views of children and young people and encourage other decision makers to listen to and act upon our views.

·  PULSE would welcome a response to the questions and suggestions within our report.

 

Board members thanked the Young People for their presentation which was informative and excellently presented.  Board members were encouraged to attend future PULSE meetings.

 

Resolved: The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board welcomed the presentation of PULSE, endorsed the suggestions for how PULSE and the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board can work together in the future.

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