Changes to health visiting service will give families better support
14:44 - 22/02/2011
Changes to health visiting service wi...
The government have announced plans to create a bigger, rejuvenated workforce within the health visiting service in a bid to improve the quality of services for families with young children.
The Health Visitors Implementation Plan aims to recruit an extra 4,200 health visitors within the next four years and sets out the full range of services that families with different needs can expect from health visitors and their teams.
The improved service will help to develop, support and promote services established by families and communities as part of the ‘Your Community’ service and will also work to deliver the Healthy Child Programme. This is a scheme under the ‘Universal Services’ designed to ensure that all children receive essential immunisations, health and development checks.
Problems such as postnatal depression or sleepless babies will come under the ‘Universal Plus’ service, which will ensure a rapid response from experts. In addition to this, the ‘Universal Partnership Plus’ service will provide ongoing support to disadvantaged families.
The plan also focuses on the fact that some health visitors have reported feeling undervalued and outlines how this can be rectified. It also aims to reinforce the importance of the relationship between children’s centres and health visitors. The plan states that every Sure Start Children’s Centre should have access to a named health visitor.
Health Minister Anne Milton said: “Developing the health visitor workforce is critical to rejuvenating the service so it offers a rapid response for urgent issues, access to child rearing expertise and the resource to deliver ongoing support. That’s why we’re making the money available to recruit 4,200 health visitors and improve the training they get.
“Health visitors play such an important role – they give families that vital extra bit of support they need in their children’s early years. We need more of them so they can reclaim their role in the heart of our communities and at the centre of family life.”
Previous studies have indicated that one of the key factors in recruiting and retaining top quality workers in the healthcare sector is by providing opportunities for regular training and professional development. First Response Training can offer training for health and social care workers, including those working with small children, in areas including health and safety, first aid and professional development.
They offer a range of training which links to the Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce and is mapped to the Early Years Foundation Stage criteria. This includes courses in subjects such as Autism & Asperger Syndrome Awareness, Child Protection, Epilepsy Awareness, Manual Handling for Child Carers, Health and Safety for Child Carers and Paediatric First Aid.
First Response Training has worked with over 1,200 clients in the child care and early year’s sector in the last year alone. They work with a wide range of organisations, including schools, nurseries, childcare agencies, children’s centres and local authorities. To see how they could help your organisation, call free today on 0800 310 2300.
The Health Visitors Implementation Plan aims to recruit an extra 4,200 health visitors within the next four years and sets out the full range of services that families with different needs can expect from health visitors and their teams.
The improved service will help to develop, support and promote services established by families and communities as part of the ‘Your Community’ service and will also work to deliver the Healthy Child Programme. This is a scheme under the ‘Universal Services’ designed to ensure that all children receive essential immunisations, health and development checks.
Problems such as postnatal depression or sleepless babies will come under the ‘Universal Plus’ service, which will ensure a rapid response from experts. In addition to this, the ‘Universal Partnership Plus’ service will provide ongoing support to disadvantaged families.
The plan also focuses on the fact that some health visitors have reported feeling undervalued and outlines how this can be rectified. It also aims to reinforce the importance of the relationship between children’s centres and health visitors. The plan states that every Sure Start Children’s Centre should have access to a named health visitor.
Health Minister Anne Milton said: “Developing the health visitor workforce is critical to rejuvenating the service so it offers a rapid response for urgent issues, access to child rearing expertise and the resource to deliver ongoing support. That’s why we’re making the money available to recruit 4,200 health visitors and improve the training they get.
“Health visitors play such an important role – they give families that vital extra bit of support they need in their children’s early years. We need more of them so they can reclaim their role in the heart of our communities and at the centre of family life.”
Previous studies have indicated that one of the key factors in recruiting and retaining top quality workers in the healthcare sector is by providing opportunities for regular training and professional development. First Response Training can offer training for health and social care workers, including those working with small children, in areas including health and safety, first aid and professional development.
They offer a range of training which links to the Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce and is mapped to the Early Years Foundation Stage criteria. This includes courses in subjects such as Autism & Asperger Syndrome Awareness, Child Protection, Epilepsy Awareness, Manual Handling for Child Carers, Health and Safety for Child Carers and Paediatric First Aid.
First Response Training has worked with over 1,200 clients in the child care and early year’s sector in the last year alone. They work with a wide range of organisations, including schools, nurseries, childcare agencies, children’s centres and local authorities. To see how they could help your organisation, call free today on 0800 310 2300.
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