UKHSA & Met Office Cold Weather-Health Alerting System

Cold-Health Alerts will help planning and preparedness this winter by keeping you informed.
Please register to receive both the Heat-Health Alerts (HHA) and Cold-Health Alerts (CHA). The Weather-Health Alerting system, which is managed by UKHSA in partnership with the Met Office are year-round, underpin the Adverse Weather and Health Plan which brings together and builds on the previous Heatwave Plan for England, first published in 2004, and the Cold Weather Plan for England, first published in 2011.
When registering you will be able to specify the regions you wish to receive alerts for, with the ability to be notified for one region only or multiple regions. Your contact information is used to deliver requested updates.
Register now to receive alerts directly via email by signing up for alerts or contact UKHSA for more information. You can also navigate to the Weather-Health Alerts live map for a live pictorial display.

Guidance Links

• Guidance Health protection in education and childcare settings
• What infections are, how they are transmitted and those at higher risk of infection
  
• Preventing and controlling infections
  
• Supporting immunisation programmes
  
• Managing outbreaks and incidents
  
• Managing specific infectious diseases: A to Z
  
• Specific settings and populations: additional health protection considerations
  
• Children and young people settings: tools and resources
  
• List of notifiable diseases
  
• Isolation Table - (Gov't refer to this as the exclusion table) For the purpose of the ERYC guidance we refer to public health isolations to indicate the time period an individual should not attend a school
• Pertussis outbreaks in nurseries and education
• Guidance Complete routine immunisation schedule
• UKHSA - Free to order managing infectious and notifiable diseases posters designed for schools and educational settings.

Teaching & Resourcing Links

• E-Bug Teaching & Learning Resources Early Years to Key Stage 4
• A Germs Journey - Teaching & Learning Resources Early Years to Key Stage 4

MMR Guidance

Measles cases are rising across the country, with over 102,000 children starting primary school in England being at risk of catching the disease.

We are asking you to share key messages from the NHS about measles / MMR and how to get vaccinated.

The Back to school MMR Guidance from the NHS includes information to share, as well as example social media posts which can be found here: NHS Vaccine Poster and NHS MMR Poster.

Norovirus

We continue to see norovirus circulating in our communities. For further information, please see the Education Hub information.

Asthma Training

There is free eLearning available for all professionals who work with children (including early years). 
Click Here to access the training.

The training takes around 40 minutes. Each staff member creates their own account and the training can be saved as they go, so they can complete it in sections if needed. On completion the staff member will receive a certificate. The training also includes videos of how to correctly use an inhaler and a spacer. The training has been designed by NHS England to ensure all professionals who work with children have access to free high quality training in relation to Asthma.

There is also a new website called Humber and North Yorkshire Healthier Together which has lots of info about Asthma as well as other common conditions in children Home (hnyhealthiertogether.nhs.uk) 

Looking after children and those in early years settings before and during hot weather

This guidance is for those who manage or work in schools or early years settings and offers advice for looking after children in these settings during hot weather.
Click Here

Reporting Notifiable & Infectious Diseases

Details and a reminder below of our reporting system for notifiable and infectious diseases through our Public Health Team- they will report any cases to Public Health England negating the statutory requirement for you to do so.

As part of our ongoing support for our settings, Public Health working with the Families Information Service and the Early Years Team have developed such systems to aid our ability to understand the changing level of disease and respond quickly to protect the population- and so we are asking you to notify us of communicable diseases, such are coronavirus, influenza and others; full list here.

The below link is a simple form which enables us to capture information from you about the case, their contacts and risk assess the situation. Public Health colleagues and the Early Years Team, working together where needed, will then be able to offer the advice and support to you and the family.

https://east-riding-self.achieveservice.com/service/Infectious_disease_notification

The link is live, and we ask please that all childcare settings report cases via this.If you require further general advice or a call-back, please contact our colleagues through the Education Public Health Officers via email cfsinfo@eastriding.gov.uk 

Covid 19

Living with Covid 19
The government’s plan for removing the remaining legal restrictions

Guidance for people with a weaken immune system
Click Here

Living safety with respiratory infections
Click Here

Allergy Support & Resources

Allergy UK

Oral health

Find out about promoting oral health as part of the early years foundation stage (EYFS) 

Click here

East Riding Dental Health Resource Box

For Nurseries, Childminders, Schools and Children Centres - Free to hire.

Following on from continual evaluation of the Dental Health Resource Box, we would like to introduce our new and *COVID SAFE Foundation / Key Stage 1 and separate Key Stage 2 boxes. Each box has teaching aids with a variety of lesson plans to promote classroom discussion regarding good dental health.

Working with statutory framework for early years and PSHE the resource box has been reported as a useful teaching aid. Tailored to the national curriculum, it ensures that nurseries and schools have access to up to date and evidence- based teaching resources. If you wish to hire these resources or have a general inquiry regarding the boxes, please contact the Oral Health Promotion Team at chcp.oralhealth@nhs.net

The resources can be hired for a week and work sheets to evaluate pre and post learning out comes will be attached to the booking confirmation email.

The resource boxes may include:

• Structured lesson plans for Foundation, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
• Giant Dinosaur demonstration hand puppet (not included: COVID RESTRICTION)
• Model of decayed teeth and gum disease
• Healthy and sugary foods and drinks
• Activity games
• Role Play Outfits (not included: COVID RESTRICTION)
• Dental pictures including tooth decay, plaque, healthy teeth, and gum disease
• Appropriate story books (not included: COVID RESTRICTION

Please contact a member of the oral health team before collecting a resource box.

The Dental health resource boxes are located in the following venues across the East Riding:

Dental department inside the Manor Health Centre, Beverley, HU17 7BZ

Dental department inside Withernsea Hospital, HU19 2QB

Dental Department inside Bridlington Hospital, YO16 4AP

Dental Department inside the Woodlands Health Centre, Goole, DN14 6RU

CHCPDental Services, Dental Practice, 8 Market Place, Driffield, YO25 6APCHCP

Dental Services, Dental Practice, 14 market Place, Pocklington, YO42 2AR 

* COVID SAFE PRACTICE = each box will be disinfected before & after each use by a member of our team, with a minimum of 72 hours between left between each collection to allow for disinfection to be effective.

PPE will be provided for the Session Lead (Aprons, Gloves & Masks) but it will be the responsibility of the borrowing establishment to ensure it is disinfected under current COVID GUIDELINES between each session.