Difficulty within social care to know other providers as partners not competitors
Personal budgets
Signposting
Quality assurances of services
Challenges around co-commissioning and young people's voice being heard
Need to persuade schools that students 11+ can benefit from riding therapy. Many riders drop out at age 11 as can't be released from school.
Needing support from professional expertise in the mental health sector
Being taken seriously - that there is a need for the services we provide.
Claims that services are integrated, when in reality they are not, and who to talk to to get a result for a service user is still poor - need to seriously engage with VSO's in a meaningful way.
More open, honest, and transparent dialogue with the sector required from stat. services