If you care about how children and young people – including those who are disabled or who experience mental illness – are served in Birmingham, then please come to this open event on Inclusive Health organised by Children’s Quarter (and stay on for some lunch and to join us as a supporter). Inclusive Health Children…Read moreRead more
CQ Campaigns
Inclusive Health – 13 September Digbeth
More than 1.5m Children in Unsupported Families with Complex Needs
There are an estimated 1.6 million children in families in England with complex needs for which there is no national established, recognised form of support according to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. That includes, for example, children in families in which parents have mental health issues, or are facing domestic violence, or are living in…Read moreRead more
More than 1 in 4 Children May be Disabled by Poverty…
More than a quarter of children in the UK are affected by family poverty. That means missing out on things other children may take for granted – warm homes, new clothes, school trips, having friends over for tea; and they are more vulnerable to social exclusion. They do less well at school and earn less as adults. …Read moreRead more
Learn for Real: Chelmsley Wood, 14 June 10am
Meriden ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND Thurs 14 June 10am at Moorend Avenue B37 5TB ALI WOOD Chair of Meriden Adventure Playground Association hosts the first Children’s Quarter Learning for Real event – a series of informal occasions when we go out and about to find the difference Member organisations make. Join Ali, her colleagues and other CQ Members for the morning…Read moreRead more
Children’s Quarter AGM 19 April 2018
Launched in November 2017 and served by an interim Board of Directors, it’s time for Children’s Quarter to have its first Annual General Meeting. The chance for Members to choose who they want to act as Directors, guiding the development of the Co-op between Members’ Meetings. The AGM will start at 10am on 19th April…Read moreRead more
What are the most common mental health problems young people face…
Mental health disorders that are most frequent in the teenage years include those associated with: anxiety and depression, eating disorders, serious antisocial behaviour, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and self-harm. Teenage years are also the age when rarer psychotic disorders can emerge: half of all lifetime cases of psychiatric disorders start by age 14…Read moreRead more
Child poverty makes mental illness more likely
11 year olds from the lowest income families are 4.5 times more likely to experience severe mental health problems when compared to those from the highest income families. See the Mental Health Foundation’s Fundamental Facts @mentalhealth (more…)