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Information for health professionals

Tower Hamlets Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Service (CYPHWS) is provided by Compass a national health and wellbeing charity who are leading providers of Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) prevention and early intervention services.

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CYPHWS is an integrated universal and targeted service

for all school-aged children aged 5 to 19 (or up to 25 for young people with Special Educational Needs/Disabilities) and their parents/carers in Tower Hamlets. The service delivers across three key functions:

  • Healthy Child Programme (Public Health Nursing)
  • Sexual health promotion and treatment
  • Substance misuse (including smoking/vape) prevention and treatment
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The service can support CYPF with a range of health and wellbeing topics including:

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Healthy Diet

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Oral Health

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Friendships & Relationships

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Body Image

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Bullying

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Sleep Hygiene

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Mental Health

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Long-term health conditions

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Behaviour / Parenting

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Continence

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Substance Misuse

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Sexual Health

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The service offer is based on four levels

of individual and family need (community, universal, targeted and specialist) across all three functions. A full list of the available interventions across is detailed in the service overview section of this document. The service is delivered by four locality skill-mix teams (North East, South East, North West, South West). Each team is made-up of a School Nurse/s, Staff Nurses, Health and Wellbeing Practitioners, Healthy Child Programme Practitioners and Health and Wellbeing Support Worker.

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