The challenge
Being healthy is one of the five outcomes outlined in Every Child Matters.
Every local authority should be working towards improving the health of young people. This requires multi-agency working between primary care trusts and other agencies such as youth services. Durham County Council was keen to encourage this when it set up its County Durham Healthy Youth Work Standard to extend best practice in health across all areas of youth work.
The solution
Five primary care trusts and Durham County Council's youth service came together to develop the standard, which encourages youth centres and projects to work together to promote health and wellbeing. The five trusts were this month replaced by one organisation, County Durham Primary Care Trust.
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