YoH (Youth on Health) groups were established within the Primary Care Trust to enable young people to have a say on health issues that mattered to them. Young people conducted research within local schools and came up with a number of proposals to improve the nutritional value of food. They also addressed issues of how lunch times were organised. Changes made included abolishing separate dinning for pupils with packed lunches so friends can sit together, healthy vending machines and the introduction of salad bars and water fountains.
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Achieving improved access to local sexual health services
The EEFO programme seeks to address barriers which prohibit young people from accessing the services that they need. Young people trained to become young assessors i.e. mystery shoppers and went on to evaluate a sample of services offering sexual health provision. Feedback/recommendations from the young assessors have been incorporated into the new quality standards and these will improve access to and improve the service provided by sexual health services for young people.
Mystery shopper challenges Derby bus company fares practice
As part of a mystery shopping exercise a young person was refused the right to travel because he did not have his half price B-Line card. Company policy requires the bus driver to nonetheless, allow them to travel. This was fed back to the bus company who reiterated to their bus drivers their policy regarding allowing young people to travel.