Welcome to the Suffolk Schools’ Safety, Health and Wellbeing pages.
On these pages you will find information for schools’ health and safety, and also, very importantly, on wellbeing. All the links in the menu go to a specific topic page and you will hopefully find relevant information for your needs. If you have any ideas or thoughts about these webpages, please contact:
Antonina (Nina) Bickerton – CYP and Suffolk (maintained) Schools’ Safety, Health and Wellbeing Advisor, Suffolk County Council: Email: [email protected].
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Latest News
- 13 March 2024: Some revised requests on how to fill out incident forms – PLEASE read these carefully. It’s really important that we can record details, and file the forms in a safe and robust way, so please do follow the new ‘asks’. Thank you.
- 21 February 2024: Here’s the new briefing of SHaW / school related news from reputable sources such as the HSE, Ofsted, the NSPCC, Gov.UK etc, and is intended to be a ‘one stop shop’ for relevant national education-related news. All priority news and alerts will continue to be posted on this page as a separate item so you don’t miss them.
- 15 February 2024 – previous terms’ ‘latest news’ is now being archived so if you can’t find a previously posted notice, please contact [email protected] and it can be sent along to you.
- 23 January 2024 – Measles outbreaks – the DfE are pointing all schools to the UKHSA guidance with regards to the spread of measles in education settings. Please go to: Health protection in CYP settings and Managing outbreaks. The NHS has the following advice for parents: Measles – NHS. The Education Hub blog from the DfE also has guidance, and information on the MMR vaccine.