Why we designed the Your Story consultation tool

The Your Story consultation tool is a questionnaire that was designed as part of the development process of our standards for ingegrated care pathways for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). It was designed with input from our user and parent/carer subgroup to enable us to engage with children and young people throughout Scotland. Your Story was not designed as a research tool but as a framework for talking to children and young people about their involvement with CAMHS. It helped us to:

·         find out what it’s like to use CAMHS

·         what helps

·         what could be better,  and

·         capture children and young people’s views of the services they receive.

Since our initial consultation beween January and April 2011, the questionnaire has been simplified so that it is easier to use and reflects the feedback we received.

The Your Story report provides an analysis of the collated responses to our consultation. We would like to thank Barnardo’s Scotland and all of the children, young people and workers who took part in the consultation process.

The Your Story consultation tool comes with staff guidance notes. These provide extra information for professionals using Your Story with children and young people.

For further information, please contact:

Catriona Macmillan, Project Officer, on 0131 623 4601