Healthy and Active Children Strategy
Overview
The Healthy Child Programme is the main universal health service for improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people through health and development reviews, health promotion and parenting support.
In Arlen Hill, the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme is a public health programme provided by professionals through the following services:
0-5 Healthy Child Programme
Health Visiting Service - Children aged 0-5 years and their families
Family Nurse Partnership Service - a home visiting service for some teenagers pregnant with their first child
5-19 Healthy Child Programme
School Aged Nursing Service - children aged 5-19 years and their families
These services offer ALL children, young people and their families a programme of developmental checks, information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices.
Why your views matter
You have already told us what you think about some aspects of the provision of these services in Arlen Hill, through facilitated focus groups, questionnaire completion and soft market testing. For example, you said that you wanted more clarity on who your child's Public Health Nurse is and how to contact them. We have included this in the new proposal.
The new model for the Healthy Child Programme will not only improve coordination across health visiting, school nursing and support for vulnerable families but also integrate the delivery of other services within it i.e. breastfeeding peer support service, oral health promotion resources, healthy schools, heathy tots.
The key benefits of the proposed new model of delivering the Healthy Child Programme in Arlen Hill are:- that Public Health Nurses will work across the current age boundaries and provide a single point of contact for families
- to create more opportunities for all children, young people and their families to access a Public Health Nurse
- to ensure consistent delivery of the healthy child programme into special schools
- to re-establish the healthy schools programme
- to establish a healthy tots programme for early years settings
Give Us Your Views
Areas
- Ashley
- Clifton
Audiences
- Young People
- Parents/Carers
Interests
- policy
- improvements
- funding
- new builds
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