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December 08 National Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Network Mail

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NHS Early Years LifeCheck

Dear ColleagueI am pleased to announce that NHS Early Years LifeCheck has today been launched for use, initially in the 83 designated Spearhead and deprived Communities for Health Local Authorities, following an extensive programme of development, testing and piloting.NHS LifeCheck is an online health service which can help you to think about, and possibly change, the way you live your life, in order to protect and improve your health. This can be found at www.nhs.uk/lifecheck. The service's key strengths are that it is easy to use, takes a wide view of life and provides clear, actionable and fully confidential advice, guidance and support.This follows the 2006 White Paper commitment, that NHS LifeCheck will be developed and implemented in areas with the worst health and deprivation, i.e. Spearhead areas.NHS LifeCheck has been developed by the Department of Health, working with practitioners in the Health Service, leading academics and researchers. It has also been widely tested with a large number of people to ensure that it provides the best possible help.The initial version of NHS Early Years LifeCheck is available now - for parents and carers of young babies (5 to 8 months), NHS Teen LifeCheck (for young people aged 12-15) will be released to you later this year. NHS Mid-Life Life Check (for adults aged 45-60) is currently being developed for pilot and launch early next year.A full marketing and communications program of work is currently being developed to support national launch of Early Years and Teen LifeCheck in the new year. Lessons learned from this initial launch will be factored into those plans. In order to fully support this, the Support Pack Lite is shortly being provided online at www.dh.gov.uk/lifecheck, and we will advise when this is available. This contains material suitable for local tailored advertising, and appropriate monitoring processes. We shall be in touch with you to discuss next steps.Working with regional representatives, we are seeking to identify appropriate mechanisms for the wider national launch of NHS LifeCheck products in 2009. We are looking to ensure that support for local implementation is appropriately targeted, once the C4H Autumn roll-out monitoring process has begun. The intention, subject to response from users, is to develop a full range of NHS LifeChecks. You will recall that funding was made available to your organisation earlier this year to commence the work of planning the local implementation of NHS LifeCheck in your community. Three workshops have been held to help explore likely success factors which will enable NHS LifeCheck to be embedded in local health and social care practice in order that the above target audience can be reached. The workshops have also highlighted the significant progress made in preparation for launch by many organisations where local staff from health and social care have been putting structures in place in order to support local implementation of NHS LifeCheck. Most of these teams represent health, social and third sector care agencies in the context of Local Area Agreements and other complementary health improvement initiatives. Further information will be forwarded to the Communities for Health lead at the Local Authority and published on the NHS LifeCheck pages of the Department of Health website at www.dh.gov.uk/lifecheck. Please direct queries to lifecheck@... in order that these can be monitored as part of this roll-out. Question and answers from the LifeCheck Round Table are being sent today by separate email. We wish you a successful local roll-out and please do forward any success stories or early learnings on to the above email address.Roy LambleyNHS LifeCheck Project ManagerSocial Marketing and Health-Related BehaviourPublic Health Strategy, Social Marketing and Sexual HealthHealth Improvement and Protection DirectorateAddress: Department of Health | Area 614 Wellington House | 133-155Waterloo Road | London | SE1 8UGhttp://www.nhs.uk/lifecheckhttp://www.dh.gov.uk/lifechecklifecheck@...

An Extraordinary Book

Over 20 disabled adults speak from their hearts about both the support their parents were able to give them when they were young, and also the places where their parents were confused or misled by others into actions which, on reflection, they believe to have been unhelpful, or even harmful.What emerges is a unique guide for parents, and all those who support them, to help make decisions, or choose paths for their children that will avoid some of the mistakes of the past, dominated by the medical model of disability, and steer their children instead towards a bright, positive future.The book includes stories and poems. It is emotional, personal, funny, sad, and hopefully illuminating. As the author I have tried to communicate some of the many things I have learned as a disabled child now grown up as a parent myself, and as a supporter of many families who have been struggling to help their children to have a good, inclusive life. Order your copy now from the online store of:www.Inclusive-Solutions.com£9.95 plus P & P.For more about the author:http://www.michelinemason.com/topics/aboutme.htm

Luton Council failed boy in its care

The Local Government Ombudsman has criticised Luton Council for the delay in providing therapy for the sexually harmful behaviour of a boy in their care.Attached, and

http://www.lgo.org.uk/news/info.php?refnum=271 & startnum

National Perinatal Mental Health Project - Gender Equality and Women's Mental Health Programme

Mental health problems are common both during pregnancy and following childbirth, and can be very serious. Perinatal mental health has been recognised in recent years as a major public health concern. Researchers, policy makers, service users and health professionals have highlighted the huge impact of mental health problems during the perinatal period (that is during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal year) and the need for improved care in this area (CEMD 2001, CEMACH 2004, MIND 2006, SIGN 2002, Oates 2003).Attached, and http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=61164 FreeseNational Perinatal Mental Health Project LeadGender Equality and Women's Mental Health ProgrammeLondon Development Centre11-13 Cavendish SquareLondon W1G 0ANTel: 020 7307 2431 x 2440Mobile: 07989459643cathy.freese@...

What About The Children? National Conference 17th March 2009

From LydKeyte@...What About The Children?National Conference21st Century Babies -the joys and challenges for parents and society17th March 2009The Resource Centre365 Holloway RoadLondonN7 6PAKey Note Speakers includeCamila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Co. Hoskings of the WAVE TrustFor further details and early applications please contact our Conference Organiser Cath Armstrong cath.armstrong@...

Working Together with Parents Network - Your expertise required

Dear Network memberThe Norah Fry Research Centre, host of the Working Together with Parents Network, are conducting a piece of work for the Office for Disability Issues and would like your advice.We are looking for any evidence relating to the need, costs and benefits of independent advocacy for disabled parents.We are approaching people working directly in this area to find out if they are aware of any materials (not necessarily published documents) relating to this topic, particularly when children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures.If you are aware of anything that might be of interest, please do contact one of us by phone or email. We can call you back, or arrange for materials to be printed or copied if electronic versions are not available.Thank-you very much for your help. We look forward to hearing from you!Ruth Townsley - r.townsley@... Tel: 0117 331 0981 Marriott - anna.marriott@... Tel: 0117 331 0976Best wishesSammantha CaveProject AdministratorWorking Together with Parents NetworkNorah Fry Research Centre3 Priory RoadBristolBS8 1TX0117 331 0982Sammantha.Cave@...

Serious case review into the death of the 17-month-old boy, referred to by the court as Baby P and by the LSCB as Child A

Haringey has published the serious case review into the death of the 17-month-old boy, referred to by the court as Baby P and by the LSCB as Child A.Attached, and http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=60989

CHANGE is changing!!!

CHANGE has a new logo, a new look, and a new website!!Click here to see our new website:http://www.changepeople.co.ukOn our website you can read about the fantastic work that we do, our campaigns and the great training that we offer.There is a new online shop on our website where you can buy our accessible books, Picture Bank CD ROMs, training materials and there are thousands of individual pictures you can buy too

Commissioning Toolkit of Parenting Programmes

The Commissioning Toolkit of Parenting Programmes is a searchable online database which contains comprehensive descriptions of parenting programmes available for commission. It presents information about programmes - their aims, content, target groups and practitioner requirements and also rates them according to quality and effectiveness, allowing commissioners to make informed choices about how suitable a particular programme may be in meeting the needs of specific parents.Attached, and http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=61572

Parenting programmes for preventing tobacco, alcohol or drugs misuse in children under 18: a systematic review

To evaluate the effectiveness of parenting programmes in preventing the misuse of drugs, alcohol or tobacco in children and adolescents. CRD Summary: The authors concluded that parenting programmes can be effective in reducing or preventing the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. This was a well-conducted and clearly presented review, and the authors' cautious conclusions are likely to be reliable.See http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=61565

One in ten children abused in UK

One in ten children in the UK are abused every year but less than a tenth of that number are investigated by child protection services, according to the latest research published in leading medical journal The Lancet.See http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=61444

Statement on safeguarding of children: Ed Balls

Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls made the attached statement at today's press conference:Attached, and http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=61380

Sharon Shoesmith removed after 'devastating' inspection report

Haringey's director of children's services Sharon Shoesmith has been removed from her post following a "devastating" inspection report.Attached, and http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=61381

Baby P and the safeguarding of children in Haringey - Healthcare Commission comment

The Healthcare Commission commented on the health-related findings of the joint review at Haringey, which it carried out with Ofsted and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary.Attached, and http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=61382

Serious case review report into the death of 3-year-old

Sheffield safeguarding children board has published the serious case review report into the death of 3-year-old .Attached, and http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=60990

New reports: Research reviews on prevalence, detection and interventions in parental mental health and child welfare

Dear Colleagues,The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is carrying out a project that aims to publish practice guidelines for local authority and health services about how they should plan, deliver and evaluate services to support parents with mental health problems (PMHPs) and their children. SCIE asked SPRU to search for and review evidence to underpin the practice guidelines.The reviews asked four questions, and identified and summarised evidence for each separately. The four questions were: 1. What do we know about the numbers and types of parental mental health problems in the UK? 2. What systems, tools and opportunities are there in services for children, adults and families, both in the UK and elsewhere, for detecting parental mental health problems? Who uses these, where and how? 3. How accessible and acceptable are services or interventions that support children, families, parenting or couple relationships when a parent has a mental health problem, in both the UK and elsewhere? 4. What outcomes do these types of services or interventions have for parents, children, families, parenting or couple relationships?The technical reviews and protocols for this work, along with a summary report that pulls the work of both reviews together, can be found at:http://php.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/child.phpYours sincerely, PitmanInformation OfficerSocial Policy Research UnitUniversity of Yorkwww.york.ac.uk/spru(01904) 321981

GOOD ENOUGH PARENTS

Assessing Parenting in a Statutory Context5th Annual Child Psychotherapy ConferenceFlyer attached

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