Supporting Families during Covid-19 with Cheryl Brown
Explore how Cheryl Brown supports families during Covid-19 through a range of services including family learning activities, therapeutic services, parenting pathways, financial advice, and more. Discover the impact on child wellbeing, the services offered during lockdown, and the increase in demand for support. Witness the innovative approaches taken to engage children, enhance storytelling skills, and address emerging challenges amid the pandemic.
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Supporting Families during Covid-19 Cheryl Brown
Services offered in 2019 Eligible 2 Year Old Other Referrals Attend Peer Support Group 33% 19% Use Additional Service 69% 100% Live in SIMD 1, 2 or 3 52% 36% Wellbeing or Child Protection Concern 12% 10% Therapeutic Services- Trauma Informed Training, Counselling, Mindfulness groups, Art Therapy, Storytelling Family Learning: Peep, BookBug, PICL, LIFT, Play@home Parenting Pathway- Dads2Be, A Good Start Parent Courses Incredible Years, Raising Children With Confidence, How to talk, Sleep Clinics. Peer Support Groups, Confidence Building, Soft Skills Financial advice
Services offered in lockdown Gorebridge 0 Mount Esk 11 Community 91 Woodburn 23 Paradykes 22 Mayfield 21 Penicuik 18 Total 186 Children supported during lockdown Children supported in total over the year 50 53 62 66 68 33 0 332 Families receiving lunch/activity pack/ easter egg/vounchers etc. 22 32 24 31 31 12 9 161 Male carers supported over the year 0 1 4 3 3 0 73 84 320 Female carers supported over the year 44 43 47 57 57 33 39 Children attending from SIMD1, 2 or 3 area. *families rather than children. Families engaging in a Family Learning activity 28% 21% 44% 50% 23% 67% 35%*52% 123 22 40 35 25 22 30 297
Lockdown and beyond The children adored Tim and they were always so engaged and listened to every word so eagerly .so fantastic to see how interested and motivated they had become to the art of storytelling especially with their determination to share and create their own stories Primary School teacher Yoga, Activity bags, PEEP and Story telling
Child wellbeing concerns Increase in number of children presenting with a wellbeing concern Children wellbeing concern -2019: 23.8% Children wellbeing concern -2020: 30.1% Decrease in number of children on child protection register 0.046 vs 0.039 but increase in number of LAC children. (numbers small) Huge increase in demand for SLEEP advice Impact on language- local primary advises that literacy levels down. Reports of more issues in playground with children experiencing difficulty with emotional regulation and social skills
Income A quarter of families we worked with were referred to our Financial Advice worker (partnership with Citizens Advice Bureau) Approximately 20% ( 82 clients) were referred for emergency financial support Range of financial support on offer to families on low income/benefits- summer payments, Christmas payment, 20 per week increase to Universal credit Families expressing concern about of the impact of the ending of the 20 per week increase (September 2021)
Mental Health and Wellbeing Large increase in number of adults offered therapeutic services- 67 in 2019 to 106 in 2020 Much higher number of adults present at significant risk on CORE (clinical outcomes in routine evaluation) score 9% (2019) -36% (2020) Therapeutic services online- not suited everyone 1/5 were waiting for face-to-face counselling Group work has been very difficult resulting in increase in feelings of social isolation but anecdotal evidence that many concerned about increasing number of adults finding it hard to engage with services
Partnership working Impact on partnership working- hard for Allied Health professionals to work with children in early years settings and previous joint work e.g. Health Visitors in settings has stopped. Large decrease in referrals from 613 in 2019 to 406 in 2020 (particularly from Health Visiting and Schools)
Emerging issues from practice Social Isolation - online burnout and concern about mixing Mental health and wellbeing concerns for adults and children Poverty- impact of families reduced income as result of reduction in universal credit (reverting to previous payment after covid payment) Service reduction after all additional services provided for COVID
