Getting it Right for Children and Young People
Sport can have a positive impact on the lives of children with a learning disability in so many ways, not only from the point of view of improving physical health and well-being - weight management, healthier heart and lungs for …
There has never been a greater need for robust and comprehensive School Nursing services for all our children and young people. According to ‘Future in Mind’ (2016), one in ten children needs support or treatment for mental health problems. With …
Public health nursing is a dynamic and fast changing profession – It has to be to keep up with the public’s expectations and changes within PH messaging! The ability to adapt and change is quite a skill and perhaps something …
Flu is a common infection in babies and children and can be very unpleasant for them. Children under the age of five have the highest hospital admission rates for flu compared to other age groups. For many years the flu vaccine has …
That’s our core approach on our Rise Above youth campaign when developing engaging content to ensure that it resonates with our core audience. Rise Above is all about helping 11 – 16’s delay or prevent exploratory risky behaviours such as …
Inspired by hearing the voices of young people at the School Nurses International Conference 2015, ‘Kissing it Better’ has now forged valuable links with School Nurses in many areas Across the country, we work with, mainly, 16-18 year old students …
We all know that what happens in pregnancy and early childhood impacts on physical and emotional health through into adulthood. It is important, however, that we don’t only focus on the youngest children. Between the ages of 5 and 24 …
The i-HOP research team recently visited the University of Manchester to talk to a group of nursing students. We felt our subject matter was particularly suited to their conference, ‘Caring for Children on the Margins’, because offenders’ children are often …
At Firefox’s MozFest International Festival I’ll be sharing the Health Badges that children and young people have been earning through Makewaves and Open Badge Academy to develop positive health literacy and skills. The digital badges have been commissioned by the …
Female genital mutilation affects around 200 million women across the world and almost all of these women will have been cut as children, many of them at school age. But FGM isn’t just an international issue, many young girls here …
