Last week I had the privilege of attending an event organised by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Child and Adolescent Health Group, which included an oversubscribed seminar by Right Here Brighton and Hove Young Volunteers around ‘Making your surgery more youth-friendly’.
With more pupils with special educational needs now being educated in mainstream schools, the move from primary to secondary can altogether be very challenging.
We've just completed another of the Rapid Enterprise Development Workshops with Care and Share Associates and local Mansfield Charity APCOO.
Families are still not being properly rewarded for the care they are giving and the huge costs they are saving the taxpayer.
Giving support as early as possible, offers the best chance of recovery for people with eating disorders: the sooner people get the help they need, the better the outcomes.
Common sense holds that prevention is better than cure and there are strong socio-economic reasons for investing in prevention and early intervention of mental illness.
At the moment it's estimated that only 7% of people with learning disabilities are in paid employment.The When I Grow Up project aims to increase aspirations and opportunities for young people with learning disabilities to find employment after leaving school.
On 4 February Mark Brown, Editor at One in Four magazine attended the Right Here 'A Voice and A Choice' Showcase event.
Violence is sadly a fact of young life, the effects of which are often glossed over as part of 'growing up', writes Mark Brown, Editor of One in Four magazine
Our work in 2013 will center around supporting families and their sons and daughters to have a better quality of life.
