School Nursing
The School Nurses belong to Cornwall Council Children’s Community Health Services working alongside other Public Health Nurses such as the Health Visiting Team. The School Nursing service offers parents/carers the opportunity for their child to have a health review during Reception Year and Year 6 at school. They also offer additional School Nurse Health Assessments throughout your child’s school years via the Early Help Hub.
The School Nursing team provides confidential support and advice that promotes the best possible health and educational outcomes for your child.
The School Nursing team can support you with children’s physical and emotional health. For example, they can help you if you have concerns about your child's behaviour or continence problems (night and day time wetting) keeping a healthy weight, healthy eating and lifestyle, and supporting their health needs in school. They support you alongside other professionals such as family workers, speech and language, emotional well-being professionals, school SEN staff.
School nurses have four main roles:
- To give confidential advice and care to young people and their parents or carers
- To support young people to look after their physical and emotional health
- To direct young people to the right services
- To guide and support children transitioning into secondary education
Here to help you and your child
School Nurses can help you with or refer you for:
- Health assessments
- Healthy eating/lifestyle support
- Supporting a school where a child has a health condition
- Supporting you alongside other professionals such as family workers, speech and language, emotional well-being professionals, school SEN staff.
Visit the School Nursing website for more information https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/childrens-services/health-visiting-and-school-nursing/school-nursing/
Reception Year Child Health Checklist
This year the School Nurses are offering you the opportunity to complete a Reception Year Health Checklist. This checklist will help you to identify if your child would benefit from a full and confidential Reception Year Health Assessment with their School Nurse. Click here to download the checklist
Once you have completed the pre-assessment checklist, if you would like your child to have a Reception Year Health Assessment, you can contact the School Nursing team to ask for advice or to book an appointment:
For advice:
Email: hvsnadvice@cornwall.gov.uk
School Nurse Advice Line: (01872) 324261
For appointments:
School Entry/Reception & Yr 6 Health Assessments
Email: coco.childrenscmc@nhs.net
Early Help Hub
Throughout your child’s school years (ages 5-19), the School Nursing Team offer additional health assessments and can support referrals into other support service, for example:
- Community paediatrician
- Children’s mental health services
- Dietitian/weight management programmes
- Readiness for toileting
- Behaviour & Emotional support
- Parenting support
You can request a School Nurse Health Assessment (other than the Reception or Year 6 Health Assessment) at any time during your child’s school years by visiting the Early Help Hub.
Visit www.cornwall.gov.uk/earlyhelp
Email: earlyhelphub@cornwall.gov.uk
Tel: (01872) 322277
For Isles of Scilly Children and Families
Click on the link to visit the Children's Service page which provides information resources for you and your family including:
- News and information;
- Tips and advice;
- Where to go for support
- How to access services
Visit www.scilly.gov.uk/childrens-services
Alternatively, if you have any questions or would like to speak with someone, contact Children and Family Services Tel: 0300 1234 105 (Option 5)
Email: familyscilly@scilly.gov.uk