Barnardo’s Calderdale service awarded health kitemark

Barnardo’s Positive Identities Service, which provides a safe environment for young people who experience homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, has been awarded the Quality for Health and Wellbeing Standard kitemark.
Caroline Morreale and Vicky Dobie from Barnardos, Dr Steven Cleasby, Chair of Calderdale CCG, Tamsin Woodhead, Quality For Health & Wellbeing Coordinator, Louise Burrows, Quality For Health & Wellbeing Manager.Caroline Morreale and Vicky Dobie from Barnardos, Dr Steven Cleasby, Chair of Calderdale CCG, Tamsin Woodhead, Quality For Health & Wellbeing Coordinator, Louise Burrows, Quality For Health & Wellbeing Manager.
Caroline Morreale and Vicky Dobie from Barnardos, Dr Steven Cleasby, Chair of Calderdale CCG, Tamsin Woodhead, Quality For Health & Wellbeing Coordinator, Louise Burrows, Quality For Health & Wellbeing Manager.

Positive Identities in Calderdale supports Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Questioning (LGBTQ) young people to explore their gender and sexual identity through one to one support and group work.

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It delivers training in schools and works alongside GPs and other health care professionals, to raise awareness of the health issues which many LGBTQ young people face. And it aims to remove the barriers which stop LGBTQ young people from accessing health services in their local community.

Quality for Health and Wellbeing is the national quality assurance standard specifically designed by the Voluntary and Community sector for the sector – to support groups and organisations delivering Health and Wellbeing services clearly identify the difference they are making to their services users through quality service delivery.

Dr Stephen Cleasby, Chair of the Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group, explained why the Quality for Health and Wellbeing Standard is so useful: “When healthcare professionals are signposting or referring clients and patients to a support service, they need to know it is a safe place for people.

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"Most professionals like that evidence and reassurance that there has been a good robust assessment process, through safeguarding, especially when we know that it’s vulnerable young people being referred.

“We know when people have been assessed through the Quality for Health and Wellbeing Standard kitemark it’s a place we can be assured is safe to refer people to.”

Vicky Dobie, Barnardo’s Children’s Services Manager at Positive Identities said: “We’re very pleased to have been awarded Quality for Health and Wellbeing Standard kitemark.

"It has been a very thorough and painstaking process but it means that everyone - doctors, social workers parents and of course young people themselves - can be sure the Positive Identities is a safe place working to the highest standards.”

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