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School Nursing and Health Visiting general information
The school nursing service works in partnership with children, young people and their families to ensure that children’s health needs are supported within their school and their community.
The teams provide support to schools, families and children, including those with disabilities and complex emotional needs, on a wide range of topics.
These include:
- Support on healthy lifestyles
- stopping smoking and obesity
- social education and citizenship
- carrying out development screening
supporting/ signposting children with medical needs such as:
- asthma,
- diabetes,
- epilepsy
- mental health problems