1. How the Wales
supports children who require Continuing care or joint funded
packages. An all Wales framework for Joint Packages of Care would
be welcomed.
2. How Wales
recruits and trains its children’s workforce especially in
relation to mental health, Health visiting and neuro-disability
services. The regulations under the Mental Health Measure are
restricting the use of the full workforce, for example paediatric
nurses working within CAMHS Teams are unable to undertake Mental
Health Assessments under the Measure.
The number of
commissioned places for the SCPHN degree in Health Visiting and
School Nursing needs to be reviewed and increased to enable the
Healthy Child Wales Programme to be implemented.
3. How WG can
support Children to have the best start in life by investing in the
first 1000 days of a child’s life.
4. Flying Start
has been welcomed and is making an impact however, the enhanced
service provision is not available to school aged children. This
gap in provision is marked and parents of teenagers in particular
need continuity of support.
5. Perinatal
mental health has a significant impact on the wellbeing of
children. WG has invested some funding into Adult Mental Health
Services, which has been welcomed. To make an impact the emotional
wellbeing of parents and parents to be, needs to be a priority for
Health, Education, Social Services, and the 3rd
sector
6. Obesity is
increasing and requires a multi-factorial approach at a local and
national level.
7.
Children’s services in Wales need to be able to respond to
increasing numbers of children with poor and/or dysfunctional
behaviour. This needs to be a multi-agency approach, providing
support and solutions to families
8. There needs to
be increased work to develop integrated services to address key
vulnerability indicators within families, to build independence and
resilience.
9. We welcome the
investment received for End of Life care which is supporting out of
hours nursing, however we recognise the expertise of the hospices
and see their contribution as key. End of life care in children is
fortunately in frequent but complex and intense and requires
prioritisation for planning
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