We asked you for your thoughts and comments on the proposed Healthy and Active Children Strategy for Arlen Hill.
We received nearly 500 responses from a broad range of service users, stakeholders and private citizens.
The main points of feedback were:
The Healthy Child Programme is the main universal health service for improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people through health and development reviews, health promotion and parenting support.
In Arlen Hill, the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme is a public health programme provided by professionals through the following services:
0-5 Healthy Child Programme
Health Visiting Service - Children aged 0-5 years and their families
Family Nurse Partnership Service - a home visiting service for some teenagers pregnant with their first child
5-19 Healthy Child Programme
School Aged Nursing Service - children aged 5-19 years and their families
These services offer ALL children, young people and their families a programme of developmental checks, information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices.
You have already told us what you think about some aspects of the provision of these services in Arlen Hill, through facilitated focus groups, questionnaire completion and soft market testing. For example, you said that you wanted more clarity on who your child's Public Health Nurse is and how to contact them. We have included this in the new proposal.
The new model for the Healthy Child Programme will not only improve coordination across health visiting, school nursing and support for vulnerable families but also integrate the delivery of other services within it i.e. breastfeeding peer support service, oral health promotion resources, healthy schools, heathy tots.
The key benefits of the proposed new model of delivering the Healthy Child Programme in Arlen Hill are:
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