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HEALTH
Working together to improve wellbeing
Representing the collective voice of our community, South Glos Parent Carers (SGPC) are on a mission to work with you to shape great services and achieve positive change for children and young people with SEND in South Gloucestershire.
Information you can rely upon
Through various engagement work in the community, SGPC gather feedback from families on their lived experiences of using health services in the area.
We obtain valuable insight into how parent carers view the services provided by health providers, covering topics including:
Community Paediatrics
Social Emotional Mental Health Services (CAMHs & OTR, etc)
Therapy Services (OT, SLT, and physiotherapy)
Autism & ADHD Services (the Autism Hub & BASS, etc)
Nursing Services (school nurses & health visitors, etc)
Universal Services (GP & Hospital Services, etc)
Medical Needs Services (wheelchair & continence, etc)
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Stronger together
SGPC works with the Bristol and North Somerset parent carer forums under the umbrella of BNSSG to represent the lived experiences of our parent carer community in feeding back the collective voice to service providers.
SGPC offer a range of services to health providers, including:
sharing your information with our parent carer community
designing surveys
collating, interpreting and presenting data
producing professional reports
producing and running webinars supporting parents to help meet the needs of children and young people
The SGPC provides the new Integrated Care Board (ICB) with a vital link to parent carers in the local area without which it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the Board to meet its SEND responsibilities especially around engagement, participation, and co-production at both an operational and particularly at a strategic level. The exposure and understanding of family lived experiences provided by the forum is essential to service developments...
Mark Hemmings Head of Transformation (SEND), NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, March 2023
Get involved
Here are the ways that we can work together right now to make a difference to the SEND community:
Commission us to work on specific projects
Our connections with parent carers of children and young people with SEND make SGPC a vital asset to any project.
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For access to information that can help shape the services you provide.
Last year in health…
Meetings and projects we have been involved with include:
Health Commissioners
Best Start in Life
Education, Health and Social Care (bi-monthly meetings)
Medical Policies Working Group
Health & Education
Health and BNSSG parent carer forums strategies
Health providers
Private Reports & Tribunals (adhoc meetings)
Autism Hub (bi-monthly meetings)
CCHP
NHS England
The BNSSG obtained funding from NHS England (South West region) to produce a video to support parents in understanding how to help their child with Sensory Processing Difficulties.
Multi-agency Focus
Keyworker Project
A great example of co-production work, this project aims to provide families with the appropriate support to prevent mental health crisis
360° Outreach Project
This family-friendly service supports schools and parents in the understanding of needs as early as possible to ensure inclusion and access to learning for all children and young people. This includes coffee mornings, workshops, presentations, peer-to-peer support and information, all guided by our Peer Support Team.
For more on 360° Outreach Project > click here
Autism Needs-led Approach
Working with the BNSSG, looking at the needs of a child or young person and the importance of a diagnosis (Feb 2022)