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Anna Clack, Public Health, gave the following powerpoint presentation:-
Healthy Child Programme 5-19
Core ambition to have children and young people who were happier, healthier and ready to take advantage of positive opportunities and reach their full potential
- Framework for universal and progressive services for prevention and early intervention
- Key role was to identify children with high risk and low protective factors
- Partnership working to develop high quality services
- Effective use of resources informed by a local needs assessment
- Delivered to local population regardless of school status – Academies, educated at home
- Evidence based programmes
National Guidance
- Working Together to Safeguard Children
- National Child Measurement Programme 2012/13
- You’re Welcome
- Healthy Child Programme
Getting it right for Children and Families – an opportunity to
- Revitalise the profession
- Review and revise local services
- Reaffirm School Nurses as leaders and key deliverers on Public Health
- Develop a framework for local service delivery
- Involve children and young people in Service development
- Provide a Service that is ‘in synch with the way young people live their lives’
- Four levels of activity/intervention with safeguarding running through all
Outcome Measures for Children, Young people and Families
- Improved emotional wellbeing of looked after children
- Reduced school absences
- Reduced excess weight
- Reduced under 18 conceptions
- Reduced chlamydia prevalence in 15-24 year olds
- Reduced smoking prevalence
- Reduced alcohol and drug misuse
- Reduced tooth decay in 5 year olds
- Population vaccine cover
Where we are now
- Delivering elements of Healthy Child Programme
- Key professionals in safeguarding children and young people
- NCMP – offering targeted advice and support
- Integrated HV and SN Team to support seamless transition
- Delivery of efficient and effective vaccination programmes
- Use of system one to evidence outcomes
- Working in partnership on Early Help Strategies
- Offering and co-ordinating targeted support for children and families – CAF’s
- Use of the 4 level Service model to categorise need in caseloads on SystmOne e.g. Universal Plus
- Working with agencies to promote emotional health at tier 1
- Offering signposting and support on sexual health
- ‘brief interventions’ to promote healthy lifestyles
What does a good Service look like?
- A high quality evidence based service
- An appropriately skilled School Health Team
- Efficient delivery of our local Service model
- Involvement of children, young people and families and stakeholders in development, review and evaluation
- All children and young people from school entry age have access to a skilled Public Health Nursing Service
- Working in partnership to get best outcomes
- School Nursing recognised as a career opportunity
The updated Rotherham Service Specification
- Focuses on quality health improvement (outcome measures)
- Is detailed and more prescriptive than the previous specifications
- Has to acknowledge the intense work of the vaccination programme and National Child Measuring programme
- Recognises the separate commissioning of the ... view the full minutes text for item 75