Health improvement commissioning for children, families and schools in East Sussex

The overarching objectives of the project are to:

• Plan and deliver safe, effective and meaningful engagement and consultation with young people about defined health improvement services and initiatives in East Sussex;
• Collate and analyse the outputs of engagement and consultation activity in order to produce a synthesis of up-to-date information about young people’s views and experiences in relation to defined health improvement services and initiatives in East Sussex;
• Produce a report with robustly determined recommendations that will help commissioners determine the acceptability of proposed developments and help inform the development of health improvement initiatives to be commissioned or provided in future in the context of limited resources.

Topics and planned activities

The engagement activities will involve gathering local information in relation to children, schools and families and sexual health improvement commissioning. This will be achieved through focus groups, interviews and additional participatory approaches such as workshops. The main topics of investigation will be in relation to the following defined areas of health improvement commissioning/delivery:

• Whole-school health improvement approaches (young people aged 11-16)
• Emotional wellbeing and resilience programmes (young people aged 11-16)
• Sexual health improvement initiatives (young people aged 13-24)

Who will be engaged and when?

A variety of young people based on certain relevant variables (e.g. age, gender, postcode etc.). In total, the project plans to involve up to 80 young people from areas such as Eastbourne and Hastings as well as Hailsham and its surrounding areas. Young people will receive a £10 thank-you voucher for their participation. Activities are planned to take place from January 2015 to March 2015 inclusive. The project team will require assistance in making arrangements to conduct engagement activities with young people on school sites.

Information will follow on completion of the project