School-Age Children1 - Karen Turner & Richard Sangster
Transcript of School-Age Children1 - Karen Turner & Richard Sangster
Thursday April 2nd 2009Central Hall, Westminster
School-age Children Workshop
Karen Turner & Richard SangsterHead of Children & Young People’s Public Health Programme, Department of Health
Our focus this morning
• Healthy Child Programme (ages 5-19): a vehicle for better health for all children and young people
• Role of schools in supporting health improvement
School-age Children• Health is inseparable from learning and achievement
Healthy Child Programme: 5-19 years• Early intervention and public health programme for children, young
people and their families
• Umbrella setting out the good practice framework for the delivery of services from pre-conception through to 19 years old to promote optimal health and well-being
• A universal progressive model
• The updated HCP for the first five years of life was published last year
• The guidance is now being extended to cover school age children and young people and will be published in 2009
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School HCP Team
Universal and progressive programme accessed by C&YP and their parents/carers in order to promote optimal health & well-
being
Communications with C&YP and their parents/carers
Key Developmental Stage 1
Key Health Needs for C&YP
Happy, healthy C&YP who are equipped with the information, knowledge and skills to make
positive health behaviour choices. All C&YP and their parents/carers have access to appropriate
and confidential support and services.
HCP Schedule diagram:
Key DevelopmentalStage 2
Key Developmental Stage 3
Key DevelopmentalStage 4
Key DevelopmentalStage 5
Emotional health, sexual health, substance misuse (incl. alcohol, drugs, VSA, tobacco), accidents, healthy weight incl. physical activity and nutrition, oral health, LTCs and immunisation, screening programmes
Healthy Child Programme: 5-19 years
Professor David HallEmeritus Professor of Paediatrics, Sheffield University
Hon Professor of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town
Emeritus professor of paediatrics, Sheffield University
Healthy Child Programme: What is covered?
• Universal Services
• Target Services
• Mental Health Provision
• Preventing problems
• Role of school nursing
Questions?• What should we be trying to
achieve over the next 5 years?
• Where should we be disinvesting?
Healthy Child Programme: the benefits
• Better co-ordination of staff and programmes
• More and better evaluation of the evidence
Healthy Child Programme: why do we need this?
• Variability in service provision
• Variability in content
• Standardisation of screening surveillance, health protection and promotion and service delivery
Healthy Child Programme: who is it for?
• Universal
• Targeted at those with specific needs
• Importance of the evidence base
• Aimed at those in front line delivery, management and commissioning
Healthy Child Programme: Healthy Schools
• Healthy Schools is a vehicle for delivery of the HCP
• Healthy Schools: the right framework
• Statutory PSHE education: the right support
Discussion question
• And how will Children’s Trusts, Primary Care Trusts, Local Authorities and partners drive this health agenda forward for school-aged children?
Vision of the 21st Century School
Personalised Education and development
At the centre of a system
for early intervention and targeted support
A resource for the whole community
Supported by
Accountability
-School Report Card-Pupil Wellbeing Indicators
Workforce
-Skills, knowledge, capacity- School health teams
Funding
-DSG review
Schools working in clusters
Skills for working and life: PHSE Healthy Schools, PE and Sport, SEAL, behaviour and safety, pupil and parental engagement, school food
Identification of needs, screening(e.g.Teen LifeCheck), multi-agency support, specialist services, school level commissioning
Focus of the needs of children and young people (e.g. HCP, enhanced Healthy Schools)
Co-location of services
Enhanced Healthy School Programme • The 21st Century School builds on the foundations laid by the Healthy Schools and Extended
Schools programmes
• To further enhance the role of schools the Government will develop an enhanced Healthy School programme
• Build on the progress of aligning Healthy Schools and Extended Services
An enhanced Healthy School
is a school that has met the 41 criteria, has plans in place to meet the Ofsted pupil wellbeing indicators and then has an outcome based model of universal and targeted interventions focussed on those most at risk and linked to school, local and national priorities
Enhanced Healthy School Programme Annual Check
41 criteria, self evaluation
Task Group
Engage stakeholders, local priorities, pupil wellbeing indicators
Needs Analysis
School and local data
Setting priorities
School and LA priorities. Baseline
Setting Outcomes
Early success indicators
Universal Outcomes
Plan for whole school measures and outcomes
Targeted Outcomes
Children at risk
Action identification
Plan interventions for universal & targeted
Implementation
Works towards outcomes over three years
Monitor
Check against early success indicators
Schools with NHSS invited to apply for enhanced status
Three-year continuous
cycle
Local quality assurance sign off
Links to PWI, SEF, Extended Schools
Links to wellbeing indicators, SEF, Extended Services…..
Work with PCT, LA’sCT’s…..
Discussion question
• And how will Children’s Trusts, Primary Care Trusts, Local Authorities and partners drive this health agenda forward for school-aged children?