The Birmingham school health support service (BSHSS) is changing. Please click here to find out more about updates to the service.
The service aims to:
- give confidential advice, care and support to schools, children, young people and their parents.
- protect and promote the physical and emotional health of children and young people, to ensure that they get the most from their education.
Who are the services for?
The school health support service will be delivered to all children and young people and their families where the child or young person is:
a) enrolled to attend a Birmingham mainstream school within the local authority boundary which is publicly funded. This includes academies, community schools, foundation schools, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled, free schools and pupil referral units:
b) a resident of Birmingham and is out of school (home educated, excluded or in alternative provision, missing, new to city children or in the Children’s Youth Justice System).
Information for young people
School nurses treat information about children, young people and their families as confidential. We do sometimes share information with other agencies, like GPs or your child’s school, so that the young person or child can get the help they need. We would only share this information without your agreement if it were necessary to ensure a child’s safety.
If you are ever unsure if your referral is appropriate, please do not hesitate to contact your school nursing team directly.
All referrals into the service will be reviewed. If information has been omitted, or the referral is inappropriate we will contact you to discuss this further.
Who delivers services?
The school nursing teams are led by clinical team leaders, backed by a range of professionals.
These include school nurses (who are specialist public health nurses), staff nurses, school nurse assistants, young peoples health advisors, school nurse support workers and team administrators.
Launched in November 2019, the Birmingham school health support service represents a new approach in working with schools and families to help children be healthy and get the most from their education.
The service will be delivered by teams based at Church Lane Health Centre (Stechford) and Lansdowne Health Centre (Ladywood) covering all 10 districts in the city.
