The Healthier Together website and mobile app is designed to help parents, carers, and professionals (including schools) make informed decisions about children’s health. Thewebsite and app can play a significant role in supporting schools and improving school attendance in the following ways:
- Provide based NHS advice to help families and schools manage children’s health effectively
- Helps parents and carers decide when children are fit for school with our should my child go to school or nursery today page
- Support staff with consistent, reliable health information (the SMS share function allows you to share pages via text message to parents and carers)
- Offers guidance for managing long-term conditions (e.g. asthma, eczema)
By making health advice accessible, reliable, and easy to act on, Healthier Together:
- Supports school attendance policies
- Reduces avoidable absences (case studies from our Healthier Together champions schools have shown parents supported to use Healthier Together have improved their child’s attendance)
- Improves communication and builds trust between parents and schools
- Promotes the overall wellbeing of pupils
Incorporating Healthier Together into the school’s attendance and health policies promotes wellbeing, consistency, and stronger partnerships between families, schools, and healthcare services
The app for iPhone is here. And here for Android
If you would like to promote Healthier Together in your school and become a Healthier Together Champion School, please contact nencicb.northernchildnetwork@nhs.net
