Report on young people in North Somerset

Report - 31 July 2016

At Healthwatch North Somerset, we listen to patient experiences and inform commissioners and providers about good practice and areas for service improvement.

This report summarises the feedback we heard from 17 local young people at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Building Resilience event that took place at Priory Community School in Worle on Thursday 14th July. 
 
Healthwatch North Somerset (HWNS) was keen to attend this engagement event given that obtaining feedback from members of the school aged population is difficult for a number of reasons: 
 

  •  Availability to engage is limited and difficult to access through schools.  
  • Interest in health care providers or health care related information is generally low for younger people.  
  • Younger people may prefer alternative methods of communication to those that are generally used. 

 
Some of these difficulties were overcome through participating in this event as the young people were available to engage with during school hours, and their interest in HWNS was piqued with the offer of free entry into a prize draw for an Amazon voucher.

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Younger people in North Somerset - July 2016
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