Caring for Children and Young People

Health and Social Care

Children and young people make up the quarter of population and given such recognizable rights. The legal rights as children and young people and their families are both upheld and respected therefore, there is an involvement of health and social care. Children and young people, who are also referred as youth or teenagers, has different experiences brought great impact in their personal foundation. Most of the people between 10 and 19 range of age spend majority of their time in the community, home and school and most of the care is delivered outside the hospital or clinical settings (Kelly, et al., 2004).

The Challenges

The key issues on primary care are composed of five ideas which are enumerated as: promoting of health and well-being, parental support, quality of service, the phase of growing up or adulthood, and safeguarding and improving the welfare of the children (Kelly, et al., 2004). Usually, the families are the primary caregivers in long-term conditions of care. The agencies that provide services play a role in promoting health, build strength, and prevent problems. An interaction with the healthcare services can have an impact in making decisions and proper management of illness through medical monitoring, dealing with emotional consequences, and adopting in role changing (Callery, 2009).

Despite the widespread of knowledge and collaboration in health and social care for children and young people, still the issue of involvement of the youth in decision making is plagued with challenges that prevent them from participating. The inequality, lack of mutual respect and trust, poor education and training, weak infrastructure, lack of representation, and cost are some of the challenges that the service agencies must defeat to bring back the right of the children towards health and social care (IFRC, 2005). Therefore, there should be health and social care guidelines that will affect the efficiency of overall care for the children and young people (Burton, 2007).

Organizations

1.0 Primary Care Organization (PCO) - the brief executive summary of PCO (Hall and Elliman, 2003)

1. The health care together with its promotions are created based on the responsive approach to the needs of families, children and young people and are working with other agencies to ensure the goal for health and wellness of the young society as well as being aligned with the government policies and initiatives.
2. They invest in different community development sectors and support networks and ensuring the allocation of resources in different areas of needs.
3. They consider the holistic approach in terms of medicinal attention and health promotion as part the organization’s universal or core program.
4. They accurately monitoring the development in the health promotion they create and increase the activity involved to establish an idea of prevention of infectious diseases and other health risks. And as evidence, there are a growing number of illnesses, disorders and health conditions are identified through their routine of preventive care programs.
5. There is a respect on duties on the child health and protection. In addition, the development of health promoting policies in collaboration with education professionals, parents and staffs that are working with their time and expertise.

2.0 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - IFRC is a humanitarian organization with a unique worldwide network and improving the situation of vulnerable people by providing assistance without discrimination and promoting humanitarian values (IFRC, 2005).

1. The support in advocacy campaigns of existing social policies ensures the structure and opportunities for children and young people’s participation in decision-making process with the concern on their rights.
2. The promotion of good governance in public institutions and civil society organization ensures the provisions and principles of participatory rights which are monitored and at the same time, there is an existence of systematic training for the children and young people.
3. The mobilization of the education and information imposed by the organization will helps the effective development of the participation of young people and at the same time, ensuring the safe and protective learning environments.
4. The opportunities for volunteers, including governments and businesses are in a partnership and collaboration for the service on health and social care for children and young children and the involvement of the mobilizing of financial and human resources.
5. The strengthening relationship with the media is an advantage in implementing the program that cares about the children and the young people.

Skills in the Organization

The possible skills that every organization or agency should have are the teamwork, communication and consultation skills, management of different illness or problems, and integration of psychosocial and biological aspects of health and illness in the family and community (Callery, 2009 & Kelly, et al., 2004). As organizations or agencies, they play an important role in delivering the care for the children and young people and create a positive outcome in their health and/or social relations. They respond to the needs through referrals and joint working.

Ill children and young people are under the holistic approach with an account on stage on development, long-term conditions, acute and minor illnesses in which the needed care are given to the children in different ways such as self-management (Callery, 2009). It is expected that every child and young person will gain influences in their future attitudes simply through the help of the health and/or social care services. If every country will prioritized the health of children and young people then, the government and other institutions should improve the framework of the service in many departments if possible. In addition, the development of the partnership between the health and social care are linked to the education, housing, and leisure are provided by the government sectors, organizations, and parents all for the children and young people (Kelly, et al., 2004).

References:

Burton, A., 2007. Caring for Children Amidst Chaos: Guideline to Maintain Health. Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, No. 10. [Online] Available at: www.questia.com. [Accessed 13 Jan 2010].

Callery, P., 2009. Self Care for Children and Young People With Long Term Conditions. [Online] Available at: http://www.impnc2009.org/upresimler/Peter_Callery_Selfcare_children_youngpeople_longterm_conditions.pdf. [Accessed 13 Jan 2010].

Hall, D., & Elliman, D., 2003. Health for All Children (4th Ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. URL www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/15161325/13404 Also Available at: http://www.rcgp-curriculum.org.uk/PDF/curr_8_Care_of_Children_and_Young_People.pdf. [Accessed 13 Jan 2010].

IFRC, 2005. Children & Young People: Participating in Decision-Making, A Call for Action. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [Online] Available at: http://www.ifrc.org/docs/pubs/youth/children-and-young-people-participating-in-decision-making-english.pdf. [Accessed 13 Jan 2010].

Kelly, S., Bastable, R., Deighan, M., Field, S., & Rughani, A., 2004. Care of Children and Young People. Royal College of General Practitioners, Curriculum Statement. [Online] Available at: http://www.rcgp-curriculum.org.uk/PDF/curr_8_Care_of_Children_and_Young_People.pdf. [Accessed 13 Jan 2010].