Free Early Years Oral Health eLearning course launched
Are you interested in FREE training and resources that will help you meet the requirements of the EYFS and Ofsted?
Warwickshire County Council Public Health have worked with a team of local and regional experts to develop a new, FREE ‘Oral Health Promotion in the Early Years’ eLearning course for ALL early years settings and practitioners.
The course takes about 35 minutes to complete, and is designed to give the learner the knowledge, skills and confidence to be able to share important oral health information with young children and their parents.
On completing the course, practitioners can access the Warwickshire Oral Health in the Early Years Resource Pack, which provides lots of creative teaching and promotional materials to help delivery short oral health campaigns in early years settings.
Course: ‘Oral Health Promotion in the early Years’
Course code: HSW WB009
Link: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Wilma
Compass - Warwickshire Young Person’s Substance Misuse Service
Compass Warwickshire provides early help/prevention, targeted and specialist support interventions and activities for young people and vulnerable adults who are affected by their own or another person’s substance misuse. We provide services for young people who are at risk of using substances, are experimenting with substances or who are using them regularly. Through our consistent, reliable, solution-focused working, we see high levels of engagement with young people we work with. By showing value, care and commitment to improving the holistic outcomes of each individual, we are able to provide a service which empowers young people to build resilience and take control of issues affecting their lives whilst promoting healthier lifestyles.
We work collaboratively with a range of organisations such as Social Care, Youth Justice, Housing, Hospitals, Education, Mental Health and Targeted Youth Support amongst others. We work closely with these specialist agencies, alongside our whole family approach, to enhance the outcomes for young people and their families, maximizing the use of resources and minimizing duplication of activity. All services provided are outreach and can be facilitated in schools.
As well as directly helping young people, Compass Warwickshire has developed a bespoke programme of support for the wider children and vulnerable adults’workforce, including training and professional consultation for schools. The package of support includes localized training programmes and materials, as well as liaison work, advocacy and one-to-one support for fellow professionals
Services and Interventions available to be delivered in schools
- Early help & Prevention - Individual and Group Work
- Targeted and Specialist Substance Misuse Interventions
- Smoking Cessation Service
- Hidden Harm Interventions
- Chathealth & Parentline - messaging service for confidential advice and support about child health related issues for Parents/Carers & young people (aged 11-19 years)
- Professional Consultation
Compass is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
If you need to refer someone to the Young Person's Substance Misuse Service, please complete this form and return it via secure E-mail to compass.warksypsduty@nhs.net.
New Cyber-bullying leaflet for parents
This week (13th-17th November) is Anti-Bullying Week.
Compass School Health and Wellbeing Service's Healthy Lifestyle Co-ordinator and Warwickshire’s Cyber-crime Advisor have produced this new leaflet on Cyber-bullying, which is now one of the most common forms of bullying.
The leaflet is aimed at children and parents, of junior school age, especially those children who are having a mobile phone for the first time or children who regularly use social media.
To help keep parents better informed and your pupils safer, we hope that you will disseminate this leaflet to your families.
Year 9 pupils complete Health Assessment
Across Warwickshire year 9 pupils are completing online health questionnaires facilitated by Warwickshire School Health and Wellbeing Service.
Each school will be given a Public Health Plan as a result of your pupil’s responses. This will enable both schools and Warwickshire School Health and Wellbeing Service to offer interventions and support to pupils. Any individual health needs will be addressed confidentially by a school nurse.
If you have not yet spoken to your school nurse to arrange a date for year 9 to complete the health assessment please do so before November 17th on 03300 245 204 – choosing your local hub. Thank you.
Flu vaccination campaign and infection guidance
Flu vaccination campaign
Public Health would like to ask for your support with this year's flu campaign - please find a factsheet for frontline staff, which we would be grateful if you might share as widely as possible.
Please find all of our poster/campaign resources here:
warwickshire.gov.uk/flu
coventry.gov.uk/flujab
You can also find information about our targets here.
New Infection Control Guidance
Please also see here for newly published infection control guidance for schools and childcare facilities.
With winter looming, and the winter vomiting bug "Norovirus" starting to circulate, may we recommend Chapters 3,4, 6, 9 and Appendix 3 in particular.