Haringey’s Public Health Team commission the Whittington Health NHS Trust School Nursing Service to support the general health and wellbeing of children and young people in schools.The Director of Public Health recently contacted heads at both primary and secondary schools with information about the School Nursing Service. Please can you return this information as soon as possible? Thank you to the schools that have already done so.
To enable the smooth running of the school nursing service, we are asking schools to:
- complete the school health profile and return to PublicHealth@haringey.gov.uk (by 10 October 2018 for primary schools and 12 October 2018 for secondary schools). This health profile is essential to determine the needs of the school, which will enable the School Nursing Service to provide services that reflect the needs of pupils in each school;
- sign the school nursing delivery plan and return to PublicHealth@haringey.gov.uk (by 10 October 2018 for primary schools and 12 October 2018 for secondary schools). The plan outlines the new health provision in line with the School Nursing Service redesign being implemented this year. It includes what is expected of schools to ensure a clear understanding between both parties about the operational arrangements needed to support the smooth running of the service.
Primary schools only, in addition to the above:
- Support in helping to ensure that Reception and Year 6 children return their child health questionnaire. Please provide parents/carers of children in Reception and Year 6 with an electronic version of the questionnaire, which can be completed and emailed directly to the School Nursing Service. If your school would prefer to receive paper copies of the questionnaire to distribute to parents and carers, please contact the school nursing team: whh-tr.haringeyschoolnursing@nhs.net. The individual child health questionnaire is essential to enable the School Nursing Service to identify the individual health needs of pupils at a very early stage and then respond to their needs in a timely way.