News - Working With Children

Have your say on Liverpool’s new neurodivergent strategy

20 March 2025

People across Liverpool are being encouraged to have their say on a new neurodivergent strategy for the city. The Liverpool Neurodivergent All-Age Strategy, 2025-2030, has been co-produced by the Liverpool Neurodiversity Strategic Partnership and represents 18 months of development. Now, all stakeholders who live, work, or study in Liverpool are invited to give feedback during an […]

A Blueprint For Young Futures Hubs #FundTheHubs

11 March 2025

Today, Fund the Hubs campaign partners (Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, Centre for Mental Health, Youth Access, YoungMinds, Mind, The Children’s Society, Black Thrive Global and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), have published A blueprint for Young Futures hubs. We know that young people want equal access to flexible, safe and co-designed […]

NOW Festival celebrates ten years

9 February 2025

More than 300 children and young people from across Merseyside recently graced the stage of St George’s Hall Concert Room for Liverpool’s tenth annual NOW Festival. Over three evenings, audiences were treated to powerful performances revisiting themes from previous years, including education, violence prevention, belonging, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), all through a mental health […]

How We Built Our Village: The Power of Co-production

13 January 2025

Co-production and peer support have the power to transform how people experience mental health and social care services – and how providers deliver them. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and that’s exactly how the parents who use PSS’s Parent-Baby Service feel about the mental health and wellbeing support they’re given […]

Liverpool to celebrate tenth children and young people’s mental health NOW Festival

11 December 2024

Hundreds of children and young people across Merseyside will take part in Liverpool’s tenth annual NOW Festival in February during Children’s Mental Health Week. The festival is organised and directed by Merseyside Youth Association’s (MYA) RAISE mental health promotion team, in partnership with Liverpool’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health Support Partnership NHS Cheshire and […]

Mapping the mental health of the UK’s young people

25 November 2024

The numbers of children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties in the UK have risen at alarming rates over the past decade. Around 200 children in an average secondary school in England currently have a mental health problem. Children’s chances of having good or poor mental health are shaped by the places they live […]

Bed Poverty: Free beds for children in Liverpool schools

25 November 2024

Zarach is The Children’s Bed Charity. Their social mission is to end child bed poverty in England, giving children the opportunity to engage at school and a chance to break the cycle of poverty.

Merseyside Youth Association launches new educational films to address Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA)

11 November 2024

Merseyside Youth Association’s (MYA) RAISE Mental Health Promotion Team is proud to announce the launch of a series of educational films as part of a campaign to raise awareness and provide support on Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA).