Adult mental health workers can be unaware of children's needs and oftentreat adults as individuals but not as parents, according to Dr LesleyHewson, director of children and young people services at BradfordDistrict Care Trust.
The three-year Families Matter initiative, planned to start in April,will employ two project workers based in Barnardo's who have experiencedthe effects of parental mental ill health as young peoplethemselves.
Both will be under 25.
A third project worker, from a health or social care background and withexperience of work on adult and child mental health issues, will also behired.
Hewson, also director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services'said training for adult mental health workers would be drawn up withyoung carers, to reflect children's view directly.
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