| Title: |
Trusted professional multi-agency transitions for young people facing multiple disadvantage – a co-production case study by a voluntary sector partner |
| Authors: |
Doyle, Gemma; Mitchell, Sean; Hawley, Sue; Krysiak, Katy; Beer, Oliver W. J.; Gradinger, Felix |
| Source: |
International Journal of Integrated Care; Vol. 26 No. S1 (2026): 25th International Conference on Integrated Care, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-16 May 2025; 413 ; 1568-4156 |
| Publisher Information: |
Ubiquity Press |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) |
| Description: |
Background: Changing Futures Plymouth is 1 of 15 areas that received UK government funding to address multiple disadvantages within the local housing, substance misuse, mental health, criminal justice, and domestic abuse systems. Young people in transition to adult services are particularly vulnerable, and integrated care research is scarce. This is a case study of a co-produced, whole-system, and multidisciplinary partnership across multiple sectors. Approach: The accountable care system in Plymouth adopted working towards 4 local principles: being trauma-informed, learning-based, an alliance commissioning ethos, and continuous workforce development. Built on these principles, qualitative and quantitative research with 25 services, a clinical audit of 40 casefiles, and appreciative enquiries with 4 young people were conducted by a practitioner researcher in a local youth enquiry charity to understand the current experiences of local people aged 17-25 years transitioning into adult services. This work evolved into a Trusted Professional Approach (TPA), that was then piloted. Peer researchers and embedded researchers-in-residence supported co-production and collective sense-making hosted within a unique academic-practice partnership, the National Institute of Health and Care (NIHR) Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Plymouth. Results: The TPA Pilot, followed 6 live cases of young people experiencing homelessness over 6 months and facilitating 3 real-time learning groups over the final 3 months with multi-agency professionals, materials were developed to support navigating system challenges, better tailor to young people's needs in trauma informed ways and improve the working and workforce resilience of integrated care partnerships. Monthly informal Continuous Professional Development and networking meetings (Transition Matrix) between professionals are ongoing, and the approach is adopted and further developed in other parts of the systems include; 1. Place-based working in Family Hubs. 2. Piloting ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/10752/11552 |
| DOI: |
10.5334/ijic.ICIC25413 |
| Availability: |
https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/10752; https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC25413 |
| Rights: |
Copyright (c) 2026 The Author(s) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.3F26B33E |
| Database: |
BASE |