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  • 23 - Keeping the family in mind: setting a local agenda for change

  • from Part VI - Models for collaborative services and staff training
    • By Clare Mahoney, National Institute for Mental Health (North-West Team) UK
  • Edited by Michael Göpfert, Webb House Democratic Therapeutic Community, Crewe, Jeni Webster, 5 Boroughs Partnership, Warrington, Mary V. Seeman, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Parental Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    09 August 2009
    Print publication:
    13 May 2004, pp 325-332

  • Summary

    This chapter accounts on how organizations in Liverpool, UK, are working with children and families to implement the recommendations of a recent consultation with service users. A small development project called 'Keeping the family in mind' (KFIM) and run by Barnardos Action with Young Carers has been set up to facilitate and coordinate the change agenda. Adult and child services do not habitually connect and communicate. The chapter illustrates how this separateness can sometimes result in disservice to families. Learning from the KFIM consultation and its follow-up development project is used to illustrate how service users identify key problems in the existing service regime and point to those areas of work that would benefit from change. Increased participation of parents, carers and their children is required in planning and design of services in order to evaluate whether services help in the way they are supposed to.