THE STRATEGY RESPONSE Hilary Samson-Barry Programme Director Children Families and Maternity

Healthy lives, brighter futures is a joint strategy

A healthy childhood is critically important Improving children and young people’s physical and psychological health, by investing in children’s health from the early years, through childhood and adolescence, will benefit children, families, society and the NHS. Children and young people are healthier than ever before Supported by medical, technological, social and economic advances Helped by more information and support for parents and more skilled professionals To address inequalities, current trends and public concern The past decade has seen continued improvements But we need to do more to become world-class The Strategy cements our standards and ambitions

The Child Health Strategy Reflects PSA priorities to: Reduce inequalities in infant mortality Reduce teenage pregnancy Increase uptake of breastfeeding and reduce obesity Reduce experience of bullying Reduce hospital admissions for children’s injuries Reduce preventable child deaths Improve services for CAMHS and disabled children Cements our standards and ambitions; The NSF for Children Young People and Maternity Services High Quality Care for All, NHS Next Stage Review Every Child Matters The Children’s Plan And reflects the concerns people raise as: Children and Young People Parent and Carers Practitioners

Four principles underpin how we will improve users’ experience of services from birth to 19 Public sector provide healthy settings and encourage healthy choices Healthy opportunities The right services Responsive services Extra support for those vulnerable to poorer health outcomes Targeted support Information for mothers, fathers and carers Informed users

Continued improvement to services to support families from pregnancy onwards World-class health outcomes Services of the highest quality Excellent experiences in using services Minimise health inequalities Support to parents to give their children a healthy start and partners to deliver change in every area Achieve long-term aims for children and young people’s health Pregnancy and the early years School-age children Young people Children with acute and additional needs Delivery systems transformation

Supporting local partners jointly to set out and deliver a local offer that reflects local needs

Making it happen – system level transformation Effective joint leadership and strengthen local accountability arrangements for children’s health Working together to safeguard children and ensure all organisations are fulfilling their statutory responsibilities for safeguarding children Building on the strengths and expertise of GPs in Children’s Trusts Stronger joint commissioning for children’s health Promote better use of data, to inform commissioning and delivery Strengthen the child health workforce Further promote the voice of children and young people

Better data underpins accountability, commissioning and delivery Test, with a view to beginning roll-out, of minimum NHS datasets for child health, maternity and CAMHS Develop a model to build commissioners’ understanding of the relationship between healthcare spend on children and resulting outcomes e.g. how much PCTs spend on child health Work on providing better data on experience and outcomes. Work is underway to identify effective quality metrics, as part of the wider NHS Next Stage Review work. Publish best practice on data collection – as part of the Aiming High for Disabled Children

ChiMat – Delivering support and evidence for the Child Health Strategy Strengthening the information available to help plan, monitor and improve services Assemble and publish information from PCTs and local authorities about spending, activity, workforce and other areas relating to child and maternal health. Provide products to reduce duplication of effort. Support the local workforce in using knowledge, information and tools to improve commissioning. Develop a predictive tool to help services identify those families that would benefit from additional support in the Healthy Child Programme To support workforce planning e.g. CAMHS online workforce planning tool Across all of this work we shall look to develop a stronger information base for monitoring the impact of future development in terms of equalities

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