1. Manchester Children and Young People’s CYP IAPT Learning Collaborative
Embedding a culture of participation at a strategic level and operational level in CYP IAPT
Manchester Children and Young People’s CYP IAPT Learning Collaborative
Welcome

2. The objectives for today
Lots of activities and interaction to get us thinking and talking about participation
An exploration of our values and aspirations for children and young people’s participation
Defining our aims for embedding participation in our everyday work with children and young people, and at an operational and strategic level
Consider how participation informs service transformation and change
Hearing from our Phase 1 partners about their experience of embedding participation and sharing our expertise
Mapping and planning to embed participation across our collaboration

3. Why is participation important?
Aids the provision of more accessible, appropriate and responsive services
Improves relationships between those using services and those providing them – promotes ‘shared perspectives’
Empowers young people and enhances their life opportunities
Helps us develop our skills as therapists, service leaders and services planners
Impact on engagement with services and clinical outcomes
Increases satisfaction with services
Inform planning and service development
Because it helps service transformation and change

4. Young People in the Driving Seat for CYP IAPT? (from Hart 1992)
8. Child initiated shared decisions with adults
7. Child initiated and directed
6. Adult initiated shared decisions with children
5. Consulted and informed
4. Assigned but informed
Talk about the model of participation employed – why it has worked and why it unique. Only a minute here. Emphasize the approach you have used to get Young People on the top rung of the ladder. Youth work model – leadership training, active citizenship, creativity, decision-making, strategic and operational roles. portfolios
3.Tokenism
2. Decoration
1.Manipulation
The Ladder of Participation

5. At the top rung of the ladder? Young People as ‘active citizens’?
Citizenship
3 key concepts
In the UK ‘citizenship’ has been outlined as beneficial for children Critical thinking and enquiry
Empowering them to lead
Recognising and reporting unfairness and discrimination
Taking informed and responsible decisions
Developing moral and social responsibility
Involving young people in their communities
Developing social capital
ACT 2012
Democracy and Justice
Rights and Responsibilities
Identities and Diversity
1. Critical thinking and enquiry
a. engage with and reflect on different ideas, opinions, beliefs and values when exploring topical and controversial issues and problems
b. research, plan and undertake enquiries into issues and problems using a range of information and sources
c. analyse and evaluate sources used, questioning different values, ideas and viewpoints and recognising bias.
2. Advocacy and representation
a. express and explain their own opinions to others through discussions, formal debates and voting
b. communicate an argument, taking account of different viewpoints and drawing on what they have learnt through research, action and debate
c. justify their argument, giving reasons to try to persuade others to think again, change or support them
d. represent the views of others, with which they may or may not agree.
3. Taking informed and responsible action
a. explore creative approaches to taking action on problems and issues to achieve intended purposes
b. work individually and with others to negotiate, plan and take action on citizenship issues to try to influence others, bring about change or resist unwanted change, using time and resources appropriately
c. analyse the impact of their actions on communities and the wider world, now and in the future
d. reflect on the progress they have made, evaluating what they have learnt, what went well, the difficulties encountered and what they would do differently.

6. Empowering young people to participate – what they say works (Warner-Gale and Sedgewick 2011)
Our research indicates that the best way to engage young people more generally is via Internet communication
Young people want leadership programmes and education about mental health
Smartphone applications, online networks and forums
Accessible technology to engage young people with disabilities
Fun and interactive activities such as virtual discussion forums, and online seminars (webinars)
Involvement in planning health and care services
But…they also clearly that face to face meetings in schools about relevant issues to do with mental health would be very beneficial for changing attitudes

7. Young People as active citizens in CYP IAPT
Learning to contribute to programmes that directly affect their lives
Empowered to initiate and lead decisions about their services
Services become appropriate to them and owned by them
Helps evaluate the standards of care they receive
Become confident and competent members of society
Improves the overall functioning of our communities and their place within it

8. The 9 participation priorities
Direct Work
Feeling Good
Assessment, Outcome Monitoring, Complaints procedure
Running the service well
Commissioning, Influencing senior managers, Mission statement
Doing the job right
Staff training, supervision and appraisals, recruitment
9 participation priorities were agreed in year 1
Formed part of the process of applying to join CYP IAPT
In year 2, children and young people involved in assessing bids and considered progress against the 9 priorities
Operational
Strategic

9. The 9 participation priorities
Feeling good: Direct Work
Get initial assessments right; involve young people in session monitoring; provide easy access to complaints and advocacy
Doing the job right: Operational
Make sure staff have the right skills and knowledge; involve young people in recruitment and in staff appraisals
Running the service well: Strategic
Involve young people in commissioning; help young people to influence senior managers; have a strong mission statement

10. Mapping the Priorities Nationally – the top 5 areas for support
1 Supervision and appraisal of staff
2 Staff training for trainees and existing workers
3 Recruitment and selection of staff (internally and externally)
4 Session by session monitoring is standard practice
5 A mission statement or charter is in place, accessible and used to review progress
5 Influencing senior managers through a range of approaches and feeds into strategic decision making
In addition, several areas may benefit from some support around exploring models of participation for young people.
Local organisations – often very keen to work in partnership with CAMHS – and have long established experience of supporting young people’s participation

11. The Manchester Collaborative – mapping the priorities
Well on the way!
Areas for support
Working action plans in place
Participation staff in place in many areas
Influencing senior managers
Initial assessments
Session by session monitoring
Commissioning services
Staff Training
Recruitment and selection
Supervision and appraisal
A mission statement
Sustaining participation groups
Local organisations – often very keen to work in partnership with CAMHS – and have long established experience of supporting young people’s participation

12. Today is about building on your progress and sharing ideas
Time to review what you already do, or have in place to support young people’s participation
Make a commitment to support participation based on what’s realistic and sustainable in your area and across the collaborative
Starting to take small, planned steps or building on what you’ve already done to really embed participation
Not forgetting our need to think about different groups and how to engage them – flexibility, need for training and support, range of options, being receptive to new ideas and suggestions
Building our community of learning and practice – including feedback loops

13. GIFT: Advice and support for participation
Planned support to your collaborative – action learning sets, training, events, support and challenge
Constantly updated information about participation and tools to support you is available from a variety of websites and organisations – e.g. GIFT’s partners Practical Participation, NYAS, Right Here and Youth Access…
Plus your local participation experts e.g. YoungMinds, NCB, Barnardos
And which has been created specifically for everyone involved in CYP IAPT
Local organisations – often very keen to work in partnership with CAMHS – and have long established experience of supporting young people’s participation

14. Contact details
Visit and register to access the discussion forums for professionals and to learn more about how young people are involved with GIFT and across CYP IAPT