The Change4Life service aims to ensure that children, young people and families across Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster are supported to be healthy and happy in the communities where they live, learn and play. The Change4Life service is here to support expectant parents, children and young people aged 0-19, or 25 for young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), and their families to eat well and keep active.

A wide range of services are available, including:

• Change4Life Clubs - a range of healthy lifestyle clubs providing six-week programmes for expectant parents, children, young people and families.
• Change4Life Coaching Scheme - for children and young people who are on or over the 91st percentile for weight.
• Change4Life Neighbourhood Projects - an opportunity and platform for all members of the community to create a local campaign that seeks to improve the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of children, young people and families,
• Change4Life Workforce Training - available to staff working with children, young people and families in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.
• Change4Life Nutrition and Physical Activity Advice Service - offers free specialist advice and guidance to staff working with children, young people and families in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster. Click here for further details and to book a session.
• Change4Life Award Scheme - to support organisations to review their provision and take positive action to promote healthy eating and physical activity.
• Change4Life Health Promotion Outreach Service - provides free educational workshops for children and families in school and community settings. Click here for further details and to book a session.

Visit the Change4Life Service website for further details.

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The Domestic Abuse Prevention in Schools Programme is commissioned by Public Health in Westminster and aims to build schools’ capacity to embed a whole-school approach to domestic abuse prevention.

A Whole-school Approach

• Leadership
• Policies
• School Ethos, Culture
• Curriculum
• Staff CPD and wellbeing
• Supporting children
• Engaging parents

State funded primary, secondary and special schools can access the below support via this Programme for free:

• Domestic Abuse INSETs and virtual training sessions – see our current offer on the left.
• Development meetings to enhance existing provision, using an audit tool encompassing all 7 levels of the whole-school approach listed above.
• Support to strengthen school safeguarding policy and procedures linked to domestic abuse.
• Support around ensuring that schools meet all statutory requirements linked to domestic abuse such as the DfE Guidance on RSHE, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Domestic Abuse Bill and Domestic Abuse Act 2021 etc.
• Access to a list of resources to inform lesson plans and wider curriculum, for example, lesson ideas on gender equity or misogyny.
• Support to consider school-wide practices and attitudes that form school ethos and culture.
• Access to information on referral pathways for specialist domestic abuse services for both children and adult survivors of domestic abuse.
• Support around ensuring that school staff experiencing domestic abuse are well supported.
• For schools that are engaging with the Healthy Schools London Programme (HSL), support to achieve HSL Silver and Gold awards for the implementation of the whole-school approach to domestic abuse prevention will be offered.

Embedding a whole-school approach to domestic abuse prevention can have a lasting positive impact – not only on the lives of the children but also on the school’s overall performance, ethos, and culture. Through this approach schools may be able to reduce emotionally based absences, behavioural challenges including but not limited to misogynistic attitudes, improve academic attainment and affectively address safeguarding concerns.

If you work within a local state funded primary, secondary or special school in Westminster and would like to be added to our contacts list to receive the latest support offers please email Viktorija.

About the Programme:

The Healthy Early Years London (HEYL) Programme, supported by the Mayor of London and funded by Public Health in Westminster, is an award scheme that helps early years settings create a supportive environment for children’s health, development, and wellbeing right from the start.

The HEYL Programme is built on the understanding that good health is fundamental to learning, and that high-quality early education is key to long-term wellbeing. When children are physically healthy, emotionally secure, and well-nourished, they are better able to learn, communicate, and thrive. Likewise, high-quality early education supports the development of lifelong healthy habits. By bringing health and education together, HEYL empowers early years settings to support children holistically, using a whole-setting approach.

Designed to complement the statutory Early Years Foundation Stage, the HEYL Programme supports the prime areas of learning:

• Personal, social and emotional development, by focusing on self-regulation, emotional literacy, secure attachments, managing self and building positive relationships.
• Physical development, by focusing on gross and fine motor physical activity, healthy eating, oral health, and other health topics.
• Communication and language, by focusing on activities and interventions to support children and their families with listening, understanding, attention and speech.

Award Levels

• HEYL Bronze award – a framework to celebrate, review, and enhance existing provision on health, wellbeing and education.
• HEYL Silver award – an action plan to improve a chosen health, wellbeing and/or education priority.
• HEYL Gold award – an implementation of the HEYL Silver action plan.

FREE support
Health Education Partnership has been commissioned to provide free support to participating settings. This includes:

• Training on completing HEYL award applications.
• Training on various health topics such as healthy eating, physical activity and oral health.
• Menu reviews in line with EYFS Nutrition Guidance (supported by the Change4Life service).
• 1-2-1 support to complete applications at all levels of award.
• Linking up with local partners that can further support settings.
• Resource pack.
• Events.

How to take part

To take part, or if you have any questions, please contact:

Viktorija Zdanoviciute
Healthy Early Years Coordinator
Tel: 07889583667
viktorija.zdanoviciute@healtheducationpartnership.com

HSL Bronze Award

Schools complete a review to demonstrate they have maintained/achieved the requirements of Healthy Schools Status. There are a number of criteria relating to both the school curriculum and the emotional and physical learning environment that schools need to fulfil in order to achieve Healthy School Status.

HSL Silver and Gold Awards

Once schools have achieved Healthy Schools Status they can move on to the next level which enables them to understand and improve the specific health and wellbeing needs of their pupils.
Schools will identify the main health priorities for their pupils and devise new enhanced projects, practices and interventions to target these priorities. Example health priorities might include healthy eating and food education, increasing physical activity levels and emotional wellbeing and mental health.

For an individual school this support can include:

• Reviewing or planning a PSHE and Wellbeing Curriculum
• Audit to ensure statutory RSHE guidance is followed
• Signposting to resources for particular areas (e.g. RSE, Drug and Alcohol Education)
• Guidance around Policy development
• Providing training for staff

Schools can also access support via:

• Our PSHE and Wellbeing Framework
• Our PSHE Coordinators network meetings (Primary and Secondary) held once a term
• A local CPD Programme