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Healthier Together Champions project shortlisted for 2024 HSJ Digital Awards
We are absolutely thrilled to be announced as a finalist in the 2024 HSJ Digital Awards, recognising innovative digital projects transforming care delivery, enhance efficiency, and improve patient outcomes. We have been shortlisted in the category of Reducing Health Inequalities through Digital, for our Healthier Together Champions work supporting access to trusted NHS child health advice in under-served communities.
Congratulations to the whole Healthier Together project team and all of our incredible Healthier Together Champions based in some amazing VCSE organisations in our under-served communities!
The selected winners will be announced during the awards ceremony at Manchester Central on 6th June 2024.
Explore our Healthier Together website here: https://nenc-healthiertogether.nhs.uk
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Beat Asthma Friendly Schools and Sports Clubs – get involved!
The Beat Asthma Friendly Schools (BAFS) award was initiated to encourage schools to develop safe, healthy and inclusive environments for students with asthma. The BAFS Accreditation scheme aims to support the whole school community in understanding and managing asthma and is specifically for schools and education settings in the North East and North Cumbria. Research indicates that asthma is accountable for up to 18% of school absence and the accreditation scheme aims to support schools and education settings to respond to this.
We recognise that as well as spending a large proportion of time in education settings, children and young people also spend a significant amount of time accessing extra-curricular activities and sports clubs and various groups. In NENC we have further developed this community approach and have developed a similar accreditation framework called Beat Asthma Friendly Clubs (BAFC) for community and other organisations providing sports/activity clubs and groups.
If you would like to find out more about either Beat Asthma Friendly Schools or Beat Asthma Friendly Clubs, please email Louise Dauncey, Network Delivery Manager via england.northernchildnetwork@nhs.net
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Don’t miss out – enter by 31st March
Chris Drinkwater Creative Health in Primary Schools Award
Do you work in a primary school or arts organisation?
One of the Network’s key cross cutting themes is Arts and Creativity. As such the Network has always promoted work in the creative arts and this has led to the creation of an awards programme for primary schools, in honour of our former Arts and Creativity Executive Lead, Professor Chris Drinkwater.
Creative Health is an approach to address Health and Wellbeing through engagement in creative activities such as dance, drama, visual art, film making, music or puppetry to name a few! There are many benefits of the approach in terms of our children and young people here in the North East and North Cumbria.
What is the Chris Drinkwater Creative Health Award? The Network, together with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, have created this award to recognise Creative Health projects in a school setting in Key Stages 1 & 2 that have been used to enhance the Relationships and Health Education (RHE) curriculum, and to encourage personal development in their pupils.
The award comes with a financial prize for the best Creative Health projects.
After a successful foundation year, applications are still open for 2023/24 projects!
Who can apply?
Although any school can apply we are targeting this opportunity into settings in more deprived communities, and where socioeconomic and health inequalities are most prevalent.
Find out more about last year’s winners and highly commended projects by visiting our Healthier Together website or apply here for our 2023-24 award by 31st March 2024.
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week – 18th-24th March 2024
Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. It aims to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceived and supported by providing schools, universities, and organisations with the opportunity to recognise the many talents and advantages of being neurodivergent, while creating more inclusive and equitable cultures that celebrate differences and empower every individual.
Neurodiversity refers to the diversity of human minds. This includes the differences between how people think, process information, behave and communicate.
Types of neurodivergence include ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and Tourette’s syndrome.
The main Neurodiversity Celebration Week website has a resource hub, which can be filtered by type of neurodivergence and/or audience. They are also running a programme of online events throughout the week.
Anna Freud Mentally Healthy Schools has developed a Neurodiversity Celebration Week toolkit of resources for primary, secondary and further education settings, recognising that some neurodivergent pupils may need additional support, while others may not. Every classroom is neurodiverse – because every pupil will have a different way of thinking, feeling, and learning. This should be encouraged and supported.
The toolkit includes teaching materials and guidance to increase understanding of neurodiversity throughout the school or college community and foster a more inclusive environment.
Looking ahead, the North East Autism Society are running Autism Acceptance Week from 2nd – 8th April. Schools can sign up to get an exclusive, free-to-download Teachers’ Toolkit for primary or secondary schools. It contains useful information about autism and neurodiversity, guidance on reasonable adjustments, what parents want schools to know, and a range of classroom sessions and activities.
This year, for the first time, NEAS have also put together an Employers’ Toolkit for businesses, covering everything from what autism is, to the Equality Act, as well as how to make your organisation become more inclusive. Find out more here.
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Ofsted ‘Big Listen’ consultation
Ofsted is holding the Big Listen, a comprehensive effort to listen to everyone they work for and with. They are seeking feedback on their work, ideas for small changes and big reforms and would like to hear from parents and families, professionals in their sectors as well as children, young people and learners.
To participate and share your views please go to Ofsted Big Listen – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and have your say.
The consultation closes at 11:59pm on 31 May 2024.
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Rise Active Start sessions
Rise are running some more Active Start sessions. Active Start is a programme of training and resources for staff who work with children aged 2 to 5, to support them to integrate physical activity and movement into all areas of the EYFS to support children’s physical and holistic development.
The course is suitable for people who work with children aged 2 to 5 in Early Years settings, schools or organisations in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear. This includes teachers, TAs, nursery managers, nursery practitioners, childminders, family hub staff or other similar roles.
Active Start sessions open to people working across Northumberland and Tyne & Wear- find out more and book here. 8th July, Richardson Dees Park, Wallsend 16th October, Blyth West Family Hub
Active Start for people working in Sunderland, in collaboration with Sunderland City Council – find out more and book here 28th March, Bunny Hill Centre, Sunderland 18th April, Hetton Centre, Sunderland
For more information, please contact dani.crispin@wearerise.co.uk
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Introducing Boost – helping us to ‘be the best at getting better’
Boost is a new platform that provides a hub for innovation, idea-sharing, networking, and supporting improvement efforts across the North East and North Cumbria.
Boost is hosted by the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and the community is open to anyone with an interest in driving forward change in health and care. It offers an opportunity for people to come together, share good ideas, promote new solutions, as well as learn when things don’t go well.
Find out more and join the Boost community.
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The following messages have been circulated by the Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme team for information and action where appropriate.
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Asthma Care Bundle case studies
As part of the updated Bundle due out this summer, we would like to include several case studies within the document on various different topics such as (but not limited to) tackling health inequalities, horizontal working with housing or local authorities, CYP asthma care in schools, successes in your local area. The case studies can be from your local NHSE CYP Asthma Team, Healthcare Professionals, projects you may be running or anonymised feedback. The idea is to share as much learning or good practice as possible nationally and whatever we can’t include in the bundle, we will upload onto a case studies folder for sharing on Futures.
Please email Louise Dauncey louise.dauncey1@nhs.net if you have a case study you would like to share.
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Published: March 20