Recently I have been working with the young people from the Home & Continuing Education service. These young people are home schooled or access the service. The Home & Continuing Education service is a local authority service for young people who are unable to...
Health Passport Launch
Monday 29th November saw the launch of our co-produced health passport. The aim of the Health & Wellbeing Passport is to provide service staff with all the necessary information about your child when you use hospital services. This information will help...
What Selective Mutism means to me…
Today I’d like to write about selective mutism. Recently I have been invited into schools to support pupils who are selective mute. I’m not sure everybody really understands what it means so thought I’d write a few words to try and explain. Selective Mutism also known...
BLOG 15 – The benefits of Wirral SEND team employing a SEND young person – the impact is amazing!
BLOG 15 SEND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT OFFICER IMPACT This is a really encouraging situation to be in, but, we still need to do more to widen up meaningful opportunities for our fantastic SEND young pe
Blog 14 – THERE IS ABILITY IN EVERY DISABILITY
Hi there, I have enjoyed reading some news reports about how tv broadcasting opportunities are becoming more inclusive and accepting for people with a disability. FAB! One that I really loved and felt a great passion for is Rose Ayling-Ellis from the soap EastEnders....
BLOG 13- PARALYMPICS
Were you beaming with pride watching the Paralympics? Because I was. I feel after the confusing times we have had the past 18 months; we were all glad that the games were able to go ahead. It gave me a rush of energy to be able to push myself as much as some of the...
New addition to the blog here’s Tora’s entry
As part of my young person section/blog I thought it would be good to ask other young people to be involved and share their experiences or thoughts through the pandemic. I will post them when the young person has completed them. Today is the turn of Tora. We meet up...
29th April is International Guide Dog day – Enjoy Scott’s blog.
Within our very own Wirral SEND Youth Voice group we have a young man Scott who benefits from having a wonderful guide dog. Her name is Rae. We meet up with Scott and Rae at the weekly sessions organised by the highly skilled Creative Youth Development Team based at...
Guest Blog – Thanks Matty!
Today we have a guest blog from Matty. Hope you enjoy reading what he has to tell us about himself and how he has kept himself busy during COVID 19. Here's what he has to say: My name is Matty and I’m 20 years old. I’ll be 21 this summer and really hoping I’ll be able...
Updates
Hello everybody, Hoping to be back to the new ‘normal’ soon, I cannot wait to be back in an office, see people face to face and be able to present in a room. Although I have adapted, coped and been able to carry on, I am encouraged to see the next steps in the...