Infants, children and young people

This project, funded by The Health Foundation, aims to develop stronger partnerships across the children’s sector and will build on our ACEs work. We will share learning from different approaches across the UK to improve public health practice and reduce health inequalities for children and young people.

Aims

• To build sustainable partnerships across the children’s sector, work towards exploring and understanding the different approaches to adversity, trauma, and resilience across the four nations, explore areas of good practice and identify opportunities for sharing learning.
• To produce outputs to support local public health teams and wider partners to improve outcomes for infants, children and young people (ICYP) by:
  • Understanding the work that has been done on adversity, trauma, and resilience.
  • Providing practical guidance and best practice examples/what good looks like resources.

What we have done so far

• We have narrowed the scope of the project to focus on childhood adversity, trauma and resilience, building on our previous work.
• We have established a project advisory group, chaired by Sarah Muckle, Director of Public Health for the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, which is made up of representatives from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as well as:
  • Association of Directors of Children’s Services
  • Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health
  • Institute of Health Visiting
  • School of Public Health Nurses Association
  • NSPCC
• We are establishing a wider group to complement our advisory group which will include alliance groups and other relevant organisations to ensure we do not miss any key voices in this space.
• We are pulling together the policy context on ICYP adversity, trauma, and resilience across the four nations to inform our next steps.
• We are collating case studies and examples of good practice of work being carried out across the four nations and British Overseas Territories on adversity trauma and resilience in ICYP to help us develop a good practice resource.

Next steps

• We have started scoping a four nation workshop on this topic.
• We are developing a project plan for year two.