Cornwall Healthy Schools going forward
Cornwall Healthy Schools is going forward! The changes at national level in April 2011 gave local programmes greater freedom and we have taken the opportunity to create a new way of working for and with schools to support the health and wellbeing of children and young people.
The key changes are:
- The former national online tools (the Annual Review and the HWIT) have been withdrawn.
- The national website has closed.
- Cornwall Healthy Schools will now run the programme and award status locally.
- We have created a new, simplified and easy to use Annual Audit based on a four-point self-assessment scale and directly linked to best practice and support in Cornwall. This will provide you with a tool to quickly assess your current practice, generate an action plan where needed and help you to incorporate health and wellbeing into your School Development Plan.
- We will continue to offer Healthy Schools Plus (sadly without the pilot funding) to support you to carry out a focussed piece of work meeting your school's specific needs.
We will continue to offer innovative and effective evidence-based programmes and projects to support Healthy Schools Plus:
- FIT (Families In It Together)
- Christopher Winter Project, Sex and Relationships Education teacher mentoring
- Christopher Winter Project, Drug and Alcohol Education resources and training
- Speakeasy for parents
- ReSET Resilience and Self Esteem Toolkit, our brand new resource to support and complement SEAL
- and Heartstart Emergency Lifeskills Training, with a new network coordinator whose post has been generously funded by BHF.
Schools continue to have the use of our health and wellbeing assessment tool (the health-related behaviour questionnaire) provided by the Schools Health Education Unit.
