WCC - School Health and Wellbeing Services - AWARD

Warwickshire CC wish to commission a single provider to deliver a School Health and Wellbeing Service within Warwickshire.

The School Health and Wellbeing Service (SHWBS) is a high quality, visible, accessible and confidential service that improves the health and wellbeing of and reduces health inequalities for school aged-children and young people in Warwickshire.

The service is based on four levels of intervention:

? Community

? Universal

? Universal Plus (short-term early/additional help)

? Universal Partnership Plus (long-term multidisciplinary support. For example, with social disadvantage, illness/disability, safeguarding).

School nurses, as leaders and key deliverers of the Healthy Child Programme, have a key role to play in establishing good working relationships with all local key partners. For example, aligning wider prevention and community based programmes and services, e.g. health promotion, contraception, sexual health, reducing obesity, emotional wellbeing and smoking cessation, and provides a whole-systems approach to prevention and supporting the provision of early universal access to information for health issues.

The service uses a place-based and community-centred approach to develop local solutions that draw on all the assets and resources of an area, integrating services and building resilience so that people can take control of their health and wellbeing and have more influence on the factors that underpin good health.

The School Health and Wellbeing Service will be provided for all children and young people attending schools in Warwickshire, regardless of their home address, aged from school entry until age 19 (or 25 where there are special educational needs and/or disabilities).