Children and Young People at CHFT

Children and Young People at CHFT CHFT are committed to supporting Children and Young People wherever they are seen in our services.

There are many areas throughout our trust and in the community where our teams support Children, Young People and their families .

21/10/2025

Are you interested in joining a discussion around the use of Marthaโ€™s Rule and how we can listen to the children and young people and their families. Join us at our next Parent/Carer forum on Thursday 27th November at HRI 10:00-12:00. Please contact ParentCarerForum@cht.nhs.uk to secure your place and confirmation of meeting room.

๐ŸŒŸ This week, we celebrated Play in Healthcare Week at both Calderdale and Huddersfield. The theme for this year was '5๏ธโƒฃ...
17/10/2025

๐ŸŒŸ This week, we celebrated Play in Healthcare Week at both Calderdale and Huddersfield. The theme for this year was '5๏ธโƒฃ0๏ธโƒฃ Years of Play'. Additionally, this year also marks the 3๏ธโƒฃ0๏ธโƒฃth anniversary of the first Play in Healthcare Week, previously known as Play in Hospital Week. This week was an opportunity to showcase the power of play in a child's or young person's hospital journey๐ŸŒŸ

Each day on Ward 3, activities were planned and organised to promoting different types of play:
Monday - Manipulative Play ๐Ÿงฉ
Tuesday - Creative Play ๐ŸŽจ
Wednesday - Imaginative Play ๐Ÿ’ญ
Thursday - Physical Play ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธโ€โžก๏ธ๐Ÿคธ๐Ÿพโ€โ™€๏ธ
Friday - Learning through Play ๐Ÿ’ก

On Ward 4, the main focus was Learning through Play, which combines all the above 4 types of play, promoting play as a whole. ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿงธ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–๐Ÿš—๐Ÿ‘ถ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿฆ–๐Ÿ‘ธ๐Ÿฝ

The activities were a hit with the children and young people who attended our wards this week.



Great to see colleagues across health and education supporting the young people and families that we work with as part o...
15/10/2025

Great to see colleagues across health and education supporting the young people and families that we work with as part of a joined up team.

Fab to be involved in the Mainstream Inclusion Calderdale tool development and be working with our local schools and services today at the launch event. This has been developed with young people, their families as well as lots of local teams.

03/10/2025
Cake sale today at CRH. All proceeds for the Ray of Sunshine Appeal.
25/09/2025

Cake sale today at CRH. All proceeds for the Ray of Sunshine Appeal.

๐ŸŒŸ We received a lovely donation earlier this week from one of our Healthcare's on the Children's Ward, Lucy, and her aun...
20/09/2025

๐ŸŒŸ We received a lovely donation earlier this week from one of our Healthcare's on the Children's Ward, Lucy, and her auntie. This is her auntie's story and the reason for her generous donation. (Posted with permission) ๐ŸŒŸ

I was asked by niece Lucy if I could donate some bits for a fundraiser at Calderdale Hospital, where she works on the childrenโ€™s ward. While sorting through some things to give her, it really got me thinking about how truly amazing that ward is.

Last year, My beautiful Eva nearly died. ๐Ÿ’” She stopped breathing and was rushed into hospital, where she was placed on a ventilator. The staff were absolutely incredible, and the very next day she was transferred to Leeds. The day after that, Paige was also admitted with the same illness โ€“ thankfully not as severe.

A week later, Eva was stable enough to come back to Calderdale. Many of you know sheโ€™s had more hospital stays since then, in December and again in March.

With everything that was going on in our family, I never really got the chance to properly thank the amazing team who saved Evaโ€™s life and supported us through such a terrifying time. So now, I want to do something special to give back. ๐Ÿ’•

I managed to raise enough money to buy new toys for the childrenโ€™s ward and some treats for the incredible staff who work so hard.

Without them, Eva simply wouldnโ€™t be here today โ€“ and this is my way of showing just how much they mean to us. โค๏ธ

๐ŸŒŸ Thank you, we are so happy to see that Eva is much better now ๐ŸŒŸ

Hi all, We warmly invite your young person  age 11-18  to join us at our next Youth Forum meeting in October half term. ...
19/09/2025

Hi all,

We warmly invite your young person age 11-18 to join us at our next Youth Forum meeting in October half term.

At the end of the session, we are doing a cheerleading routine with real pom poms for World Diabetes Awareness month, we would love you to join us !

The Team

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17/09/2025

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Shoutout to our Paediatric Inpatients Team!

As part of World Patient Safety Day today, paediatric teams competed to develop new initiatives to make care safer for our patients.

The winning idea? A central monitoring system that helps staff respond faster to deteriorating patients.

A very worthy winner โ€“ well done to everyone involved.

12/09/2025

Volunteering Services at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is proud to announce another recruitment drive to the volunteering position โญ๏ธChildren and Young People Volunteerโญ๏ธ

This role is currently based at Calderdale Royal Hospital and is open to those 18+ years of age.
Those recruited, will be put through an Enhanced Barred Adults and Children DBS check.

As we are entering colder months and leading up to Christmas, increasing our volunteer numbers to support patient experience, play and engagement is vital.

If you are energetic, fun, creative and enjoy working with children please come forward, this truly is a magical role, bringing smiles and happiness to patients and families and personally very rewarding. ๐Ÿ’› Be the reason someone smiles today ๐Ÿ’›

For more information on the role, please visit: www.chftcharity.co.uk/volunteer and scroll down to the vacancies section.

To apply, please scan the QR code or click the application link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/J7xspVGQpY

Closing date: Friday 24th October - 17:00pm

08/09/2025

Parent/carer forum on Thursday 18th September 2025 10:00-12:00 at CRH. For more information and to register please email ParentCarerForum@cht.nhs.uk

On Monday, the ward recieved another generous donation of toys, fidgets, games, books, playdough and pens by Violet and ...
03/09/2025

On Monday, the ward recieved another generous donation of toys, fidgets, games, books, playdough and pens by Violet and her mum. They have spent all summer collecting and fundraising for these resources. Thank you so much for your effort and for thinking of us ๐ŸŒŸ

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