Professor Stephen Powis has announced a rollout of new centres providing gender services for children which will follow a 'hollistic model of care'.
A long-awaited independent review of these services by Dr Hilary Cass reported young people had been let down by a “toxic” public discourse around gender. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
A long-awaited independent review of these services by Dr Hilary Cass reported young people had been let down by a “toxic” public discourse around gender. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00In our independent review, Dr Cass was absolutely clear that we not only needed to increase
00:06the access to gender services for children and young people in England, but we also fundamentally
00:12needed to improve and review the model of care. So today we are announcing the rollout
00:18of new centres across all the regions in England that will work on a very different, much more
00:26holistic model of care involving professionals from a variety of backgrounds and also we
00:31are improving the referral pathways into these services. The other thing of course that we
00:36have announced today is a review of adult services because it's important not to see
00:41the children and young people services in isolation. Of course children and young people
00:46sometimes on the waiting list grow up to become adults. And as Dr Cass pointed out, there
00:52is room for improvement in those adult services too. So we have commissioned a second review
00:57that will look at the provision of adult services and clearly when that review is complete we
01:02will want to act on the recommendations too.