Young people and their health concerns

Young people often feel that their voices aren’t heard. By understanding how young people feel about their emotional health and wellbeing we can learn what we can do to make a difference for them. Healthwatch Wokingham have been working to ensure young people to feel that they have a say in their health and care services and have been working with a local school and other youth groups to ask them what their concerns were about health and well-being - surveying over 1000 young people in Wokingham Borough.

They found that 1 in 10 young people are carers and those with caring responsibilities reported high rates of emotional distress, such as sleeping problems, anxiety or depression.

So Healthwatch Wokingham created a short animation highlighting the key findings and shared it with school, council, and local newspapers. As a result, the Council have re-written their Health and Wellbeing strategy in relation to young people. Furthermore, they are continuing to work with the local school and have developed a programme of further work with young people.

If you like the film why don't you ask your local Healthwatch to use it?

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