Child Wellbeing Support

In line with the government’s priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Child Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working from within the Isle of Wight’s Early Help Service, and linking to the wider Isle of Wight Child and Young people’s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Collaborative.

The Child Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) is a new role which has been developed and rolled out by the London and South East CYP IAPT learning collaborative within children and young people's mental health and social care services across London and the South East of England. The programme is a response to the target for offering evidence based intervention to 70,000 more children and young people annually by 2020, by training 1700 staff in evidence-based treatments, outlined in ‘Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.' Barnardo’s have been successful in obtaining funding to train three CWPs, recruited from and working within its Early help Service on the Isle of Wight.