Child Healthy Weight
This section details work undertaken towards the Child Healthy Weight HEAT target by NHS Health Scotland and our partners.
Background
Child Healthy Weight programmes work toward the Scottish Government's HEAT target Achieve agreed completion rates for child healthy weight intervention programme by 2010-11.
A key component of the target is the evaluation that will contribute to the existing evidence base of effective interventions. NHS Health Scotland is working closely with health boards to support the delivery of child healthy weight interventions.
Child Healthy Weight resources
Child Healthy Weight Resources to support children, parents and healthcare professionals have been developed and were distributed to health boards in April 2010.
Join the Child Healthy Weight networking site!
The free Child Healthy Weight Network makes it easier for professionals from all sectors interested in child healthy weight interventions to share resources and information.
The site provides members with:
- online surgery sessions on key topics
- forums for specific topics
- a resource bank of materials and information updates.
You can join the Child Healthy Weight Network by emailing healthscotland-childhealthyweight@nhs.net or register online at www.elearning.healthscotland.com
Health board visits
NHS Health Scotland works with a range of key partners and stakeholders, including those involved in the design and delivery of child healthy weight interventions. We help ensure communication systems and resources support the work of our partner organisations.
The Child Healthy Weight programme team is in the process of visiting geographic boards and delivery partners to assess training, resource and evaluation support needs. These visits will inform the development of NHS Health Scotland’s Child Healthy Weight action plan.
Learning and workforce development
Raising the Issue of Child Healthy Weight is a set of short, interactive and flexible training workshops in how to identify, raise and discuss the issue of child healthy weight.
- Workshop 1 covers the relationship between obesity and health, current trends in obesity and how to identify unhealthy weight.
- Workshop 2 covers who, where and when to raise the issue of child healthy weight with children and families and suggestions about the best language to use.
- Workshop 3 covers discussing healthy eating and active living within the context of health behaviour change techniques and motivational interviewing.
The course is delivered through group discussion, trainer input and facilitated activities which provide the opportunity for participants to reflect on their own and societal attitudes to weight, as well as the opportunity to put what they have learned in to practice. Health Scotland will be working closely with Boards and other partners to support local delivery and trainers, as well as providing free trainer resources.
For further information please email nhs.healthscotland-LWD@nhs.net
Reviewed 16 August 2010