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Sport for children with a learning disability, how can the school nurse help? by Pauline Watts

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 …

Emotional health and wellbeing and complex needs: School Nurses are making a difference for children and young people by Jill Beswick

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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 …

Young people and their role in the nurse revalidation process by Helen Kirk

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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 …

Building resilience by co-creating content for young people with young people! by Jan Nixon

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 …

The Voice of Young People - Having their say - by Jill Fraser

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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 …

Improving Outcomes for 5-24 age group - A PHE Centre Perspective by Martyn Regan

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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 …

Nurses - take action for children of offenders! by Lindsay Sutherland, Barnardos

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 …

Step one: find the best ingredients for a health literacy digital badge…by Sharon Ashley

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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 …

FGM prevention role in community healthcare and Mandatory Reporting (MR) duty one year on by Vanessa Lodge

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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 …