News from School Health Service

National CSE Awareness Day

During March the School Health and Wellbeing Service has been busy raising awareness around Childhood Sexual Exploitation. Nationally, there was an awareness raising day on 18 March. One of the aims of the day was to highlight the issues surrounding CSE; encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse. We have been present in many secondary schools across the county and have engaged with lots of young people on this important subject.

Programmes of support for schools

Now that the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for 2019 is complete we are looking to deliver as many Public Health interventions as we can within schools.

We are in the process of phoning every school to offer programmes of support. This support could be in the form of a classroom lesson, assembly or interactive playground activities during break times. We look forward to booking a date with you soon.

We are also keen to attend as many school events as we can. So, if you are holding a parent's evening, new parent's evening, health week or sports day, then please feel free to invite us along and we will try hard to attend.

Upcoming event

In May we will be promoting  National Smile month (13 May to 13 June), the largest and longest running campaign promoting good oral health. 

Our contact details / Text Messaging Service

Warwickshire School Health and Wellbeing Service are keen for our services to be accessible and for service users to be able to contact us in a variety of different ways.  We therefore operate a text messaging service where individuals can directly message the service with questions or concerns.

The text messaging service operates across two different numbers.  One number is for young people between the ages of 11 – 19 yrs and is called ChatHealth.  The other number is for parents/carers and the service is called Parentline.

Both ChatHealth and Parentline are well used with both young people and parents/carers taking the opportunity to receive health advice on a range of issues from a qualified nurse. 

The text messaging service is staffed Monday to Friday and is open from 9am to 5pm.

Please feel free to promote both ChatHealth and Parentline across your school communities. 

• ChatHealth – Young People can contact us directly using our confidential text messaging number – 07507331525

• ChatHealth Parentline – Parents can contact us directly using our confidential text messaging number – 07520619376

Schools wishing to contact the School Health Service can use the central number 03300 245204, selecting option 1,2 or 3 depending
on where your school is located.