The Enhanced Healthy Schools model published by the old Department for Children, Schools and Families (now the Department for Education) asks schools to carry out a Health Needs Assessment for its population of pupils. A training session at the Dryden Centre, Gateshead, on Wed 26th May gave teachers some tools to use when gathering evidence to assess health need and when making recommendations to improve health-related services.
All the resources used in the session can be downloaded below:
Key Evidence To Inform a School Health Profile
A blank grid which can be used to summarise the evidence gathered to assess need - when the grid is complete are there any gaps that suggest missing evidence?
Key Evidence To Inform a School Health Profile With Examples
Sources of possible evidence to support school health needs assessments, split by type of need to ensure that the assessment reflects a balance of views across all stakeholders
Sources of Evidence To Inform a School Health Needs Assessment
Links to easily accessible information about health status and lifestyle behaviours among children and young people within the Local Authority population
Thinking About Health Need in A School-Based Population
An exercise which asks you to think about health need, demand for health services and supply of health services. Thinking in this way allows consideration of which health improvement interventions would have the greatest benefit in a particular school population and, thus, which interventions should be given the greatest priority.
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