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Review of activity to engage with identified groups

• Over 80 groups in South Tyneside and Sunderland invited to run focus groups

• 32 focus groups, events or one to one work with service users

• 20 local organisations delivered focus groups involving (but not limited to):

• BME women, mothers and refugee and asylum seekers, ESL

• people who are deaf or with hearing impairment

• people who are visually impaired/Blind/sight loss or partially sighted

• young people, including young carers and teenagers accessing mental health services

• older people, older people with a disability, family, carers

• socio-economically deprived groups – and food banks

• people with a disability including people with a learning disability and their carers

• mothers including new mothers and mothers with children under two years

• 324 people shared their views / 144 monitoring forms