Hello and Welcome

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Hello and Welcome
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Article 12 Council Young Peoples Advisory
Council for Bucks CAMHS

• Serious about being heard!

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But before we start

• We want to do a warm up game!
• So can everyone stand up
• And

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Today we will talk about

• The formation of The Article 12 Council
• The training
• Contract
• First project
• Your questions

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The Article 12 Council

• Following on from the success of the Young
  persons panel in Oxford it was thought that one
  should be set up in Buckinghamshire

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So why are we here?

• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
  Child (was created in 1989)
• Britain signed up to them in 1991
• Has 42 Articles rights for Under 18s
• Rights to Protect us
• Rights to Provide things for us
• Rights to help us take Part in things
• Article 12 is particularly important

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Article 12 from UNCRC states

• Children and young people
• have a right to be
• involved in decisions
• that affect them
• Our name should make sense now

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We also know that

• It is very important to the NHS and CAMHS to
  involve people more
• In the planning
• In the development
• In the evaluation of their service
• To make our services better!

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We received training in

• Childrens Rights
• How to run a successful meeting
• Different levels of Participation
• Why its important to include under 18s in
  decision making in CAMHS
• All this wouldve been impossible without an
  external participation worker.

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You cant expect young people to know what they
are doing, no, you have to train them first
then they can get on with it

• Quote from a 13 yr old talking about young people
  running advisory panels

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Matts bit

• Anxiety Do I have the skills to make this
  meaningful?
• What if I cant deliver what they want?
• Letting go of power and control
• Time and organisation
• It is fun but tiring
• Get support

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Matt and Chiks top ten tips

• 1 Communicate Lrn 2 txt..!
• 2 Food, snacks and drinks
• 3 Allow experimentation
• 4 Have faith and believe
• 5 Time and commitment

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Matt and Chiks top ten tips (cont)

• 6 Get buy in and support from senior managers
• 7 Gate keep incoming work
• 8 Get an external expert to get things rolling
• 9 Formality, structure and contract
• 10 REWARDS..

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Why we think its important to be involved in
decision making in CAMHS

• It is a service for us!
• Under 18s need to be more involved
• Adults want to know what we think
• Under 18s need a chance to express their views
• We understand what we need
• Its important because some children cant speak
  for themselves

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...The contract

• Is made up of our terms of reference,
  guidelines, vision statement rewards policy
• At a recent conference we presented our contract
  to key adults in the trust
• We ran out of space for people who wanted to sign
  up!!

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Our first project

• Developing a questionnaire for service users
  about their experience of CAMHS
• There is already an Experience of Service
  Questionnaire around but,
• Its TOO BASIC and TOO VAGUE
• Its TOO BLAND and BORING
• Therefore we decided to make a new one!

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We thought the Service Questionnaire (SQ) needs
to

• Ask questions WE think are important
• Be available in a variety of formats
• Be available on-line
• Be accessible to young children
• And under 18s of all abilities
• BE FUN AND INTERESTING TOO

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But we also wanted it to

• Give an opportunity for under 18s to voice their
  opinions
• Let under 18s realise CAMHS listen to their views
• Article 12 Council will take those views to key
  adults in CAMHS and together with the adults -
  make CAMHS a better service!

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We have promised the under 18swho fill in the
survey

• To write a newsletter to them every 6 months to
  tell them
• Who we have talked to on their behalf
• How their views are changing things and if they
  havent changed
• Why it hasnt changed
• Also let them know our future plans

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Finally our future plans

• Roll out of questionnaire
• Recruitment of new members
• Employment of a participation worker

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And finally
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Do you have any questions?