News - Children & Young people

YPAS – North West in Bloom

25 June 2018

Working with the support of Nick Small and Catherine Morton from the local council, Steve Parry from ION Developments and Shaun Boylan; Senior Project Manager | Northern | Construction | ISG, the young people attached to SKY Central have been working hard doing woodwork sessions, painting sessions and planning sessions to pull together the YPAS entry […]

YPAS Art Activist Awards Success

22 May 2018

On Saturday 12th May, Tuesday GYRO (12-16-year-olds) LGBTQ+ Youth and allies travelled to Manchester to attend the Art Activist competition hosted by The Proud Trust. This was a regional LGBTQ+ youth activist project that had young people from all over the North West descent upon Manchester to perform, display, act out their entries.

Young people’s mental health creative arts project at Tate Liverpool.

22 May 2018

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has unveiled a new creative arts project at Tate Liverpool, that explores young people’s thoughts and feelings in relation to mental health in education.

YPAS – service users, we want your views.

1 May 2018

As part of Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group’s commitment to understanding which services work well, we have joined up with local universities to do some evaluation projects.  This is called the Partner Priority Programme which is part of the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC).  One of these evaluation projects is to […]

Young adult carer speaks to a Parliamentary Committee

30 April 2018

A young adult carer, Katie O’Shaughnessy, from the Barnardo’s Liverpool Young Adult Carers service has spoken to a Parliamentary Committee about her experiences of balancing caring responsibilities with work and university.

YPAS Plus South Hub secure funding for Thrive group

30 April 2018

YPAS Youth Workers Hannah & Claire were successful in gaining £250 funding from Childwall Valley Estate Management Board (EMB)

Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit for Schools

27 April 2018

One of the recommendations identified during the Whole School Approaches to Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in Liverpool review, was that schools would benefit from a Liverpool-based mental health and emotional wellbeing toolkit.

Young Carers Launch Film: ‘You Can Help…’

20 February 2018

You Can Help is a film which was made by a talented and inspirational group of young people from Barnardo’s Action with Young Carers, in collaboration with First Take. It was launched on Young Carers Awareness Day, and later shown at the Liverpool NOW Festival.