Child Health
Child Health Services
The Trust's Child Health Teams continue to make a significant contribution to giving every child the
best start in life.
The Health Visiting and School Nursing Service continues to deliver on the Healthy Child, Healthy
Futures, Child Health Promotion Programme.
The new Early Intervention Transformational Programme contact for 3 - 4 year old children and
parents was extremely successful with 97% of the initial pilot site completed and will now expand
across the Trust in 2019 - 2020.
The universal programme provides opportunity to identify families who are in need of additional
support and children who are at risk of poorer outcomes including safeguarding children. Teams
remain robustly supported by the Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialists and Looked After Children
Nurses.
There is a renewed focus on the heath visiting antenatal contact to improve public health outcomes
with an increased focus on identifying and responding to perinatal mental health illness with early
intervention.
The School Nursing Team delivery of the School Immunisation Programme remains excellent
including another successful flu and female HPV Vaccination Programme. The team will now deliver
the HPV Programme to all teenage boys in 2019 - 2020. In addition, health appraisals for all Primary
1 and Year 8 pupils' uptake remain excellent year on year.
The South Eastern HSC Trust's Infant Mental Health Strategy (September 2018) focuses on social
and emotional development during the first three years of life. The Trust has been committed to early
intervention and promotion of infant mental health across many services for a number of years.
The two established dedicated services within
public health nursing, work with vulnerable
families, providing strength based approach
and improving many critical outcomes, such as
reducing childhood injury, neglect and abuse.
The expanding Family Nurse Partnership (FNP)
and the New Parent Program (NPP) continue to
offer their enhanced service to children and their
parents on the programme in 2019 - 2020.
From October 2018 the new ABC PiP (Attachment,
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