Healthy Child Programme
This essential, award-winning eLearning resource covers health promotion and common child health issues from infancy to adulthood
Interventions guidance aims to support babies, children and young people
A new schedule of interventions tool has been added to the existing interactive pathways elearning programme.
The resource aims to help local commissioners and service providers navigate current guidance and materials within the Healthy Child Programme – the national public health framework for babies, children and young people.
These schedules bring together evidence, guidance, information and resources to describe local prevention and early intervention and ongoing care activities from preconception to adulthood.
It includes information about preconception care, promoting child development, improving child health outcomes and ensuring that families at risk are identified at the earliest opportunity.
Local authorities, the NHS and other partners can use the tool to inform the commissioning and provision of good quality services for children, young people and families at every level of need, from community and universal to targeted and specialist.
For more information and to access the new resource, please visit the Interactive Pathways programme page.
Note Some eLearning listed below is hosted on eLearning for Healthcare (e-LfH). If you are not eligible for an e-LfH account or if you live outside the UK, you can purchase individual or bulk licenses to use all eLearning for Healthcare products.
Core programmes
There are three distinct programmes for different ages, all focusing on crucial areas for the health professional team caring for children and young people. A team of multidisciplinary experts developed and quality assured the programmes.
1. Healthy child programme – 0 to 5 years
The Healthy Child Programme (HCP) is an e-learning programme for all healthcare professionals working with pregnancy and the first five years of life. It is the first programme in the Healthy Child Programme 0-18 series of e-learning resources, including the Healthy School Child Programme and Adolescent Health Programme.
The HCP e-learning programme supports the implementation of the Healthy Child Programme – Pregnancy and the first five years of life framework and covers a range of topics related to child health and health promotion. It is suitable for health visitors, nurses, trainee paediatricians and the child health team as part of blended learning for those in training, or wishing to update.
2. Healthy school child programme – 5 to 12 years
The Healthy School Child Programme (HSC) is an e-learning programme for all healthcare professionals working with children aged 5-12 years.
HSC focuses on the school-based team, the awareness, assessment and support of the mental and other health needs of primary school-age children, and the key issues around the identification and support of children with extra needs: social, physical or environmental.
3. Adolescent health programme – 12 to 18 years
The Adolescent Health Programme (AHP) is an e-learning programme for all healthcare professionals working with young people.
Suitable for GPs, school nurses, community paediatricians and the child health team, AHP aims to ensure that all health professionals have essential youth communication skills and understand young people’s rights to consent and confidentiality.
You can download the full curriculum for the adolescent health programme below.
Early developmental support – special educational needs and disabilities
We developed this course with Health Education England eLearning for Healthcare (e-LfH) in association with The Open University, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the University of Hertfordshire.
The course enables skills development for professionals from health, education and social care who are involved in the care of children with special educational needs and disabilities.
The six eLearning sessions that make up the course build on scientific evidence, as well as practitioner and family experiences. These sessions cover:
- Supporting children and young people’s development
- An introduction to using early support materials in context
- Introducing and using a developmental journal
- Developmental journal visual impairment: developmental principles (two sessions)
- General developmental principles (for use with all developmental journals)
The sessions are designed to be accessed at three levels:
- Broad audience, including parents and generic practitioners
- Health professionals, allied health professionals and practitioners
- Specialist health and educational professionals
The course incorporates a wide range of materials from the Early Support Programme, which created specialist developmental journals related to specific conditions and more general developmental journals for preschool and school age children and young people.
The course also provides a portal to the journals themselves and the full range of other Early Support materials. The Developmental Journal for Babies and Young Children with Visual Impairment (DJVI), for example, provides structured early childhood intervention and guidance for young children with visual impairment. However, training is essential for its effective and safe use.