Purpose

The Children and Young
People’s Equitable Services Programme (ESP) is a project
designed to improve how our services for children and young people
are delivered. It focuses on working together with local services
to reduce unfair differences in health and wellbeing that different
children and young people experience, including inequity across
service access, experience and outcome.

 

In 2024/25, we reviewed how
different services collect and use data, and we brought together
professionals in workshops to talk about what makes services fair
and how to better support those who plan and deliver them. From
this, we created a report sharing what we learned, and we are
working with a sample of services more closely (called deep dives)
to help us and develop a tools and resources to help make services
more equal. This includes guidance on what data to collect, a place
to share insights, and a network for professionals to learn from
each other.

 

In order to consolidate our
equitable services programme (ESP) and ensure learnings from equity
deeps dives are fully embedded into the day to day running of a
service, a strong training and facilitation phase is required with
dedicated and specialist resource for successful delivery. This
resource will additionally provide wider capacity for general ESP
programme support.

 

This award is for the current
health equity specialist working on the ESP to continue to lead on
delivery of ESP training and development and provide ongoing ESP
programme specialist support.

 

Activities for this second phase
will include:

-         
Review, showcase of Phase 1 and
agree plan for Phase 2

-         
Capacity Development –
specialist training and facilitation

-         
Mainstreaming relevant workstreams
(Business as usual))

-         
Service user Capacity
Development

-         
Equity Programme
Support

-         
Responding to emerging themes from
ongoing engagement activities

 

Content

THAT, following consultation with
the Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing and Social
Care:

 

1.            
The requirements of the second
phase of the Children and Young People’s (CYP) Equitable
Services Programme be noted; and

2.            
A grant be awarded to existing
Health Equity Specialist for provision of specialist programme
management for the second phase of the CYP Equitable Services
Programme, including supporting its design and delivery, which
would equate to the allocation of £50,000 in
2025/26