Information for professionals
Sparkbrook Children’s Zone (SCZ) is a partnership project between Birmingham Children’s Hospital, GreensquareAccord’s Early Help Team and South Doc Service’s Balsall Heath, Moseley and Sparkhill Primary Care Network (PCN).
Sparkbrook Children’s Zone is funded by Birmingham & Solihull Integrated Care Board and Children, Young People’s Transformation NHS England to deliver place-based paediatric primary care and Early Help clinics, serving 14,000 children and families registered within the PCN. Early intervention and prevention are the key ambition of the clinics and community outreach, to address the social determinants of health and reduce pressures on secondary care and statutory services.
Training Opportunities for Professionals
As part of our Community Outreach, we know it is important to support the other Professionals working within our locality to support families. See below our current trainings available:
Central and Eastern Roma Cultural Awareness Training – delivered by People for People and BSOL ICB
For professionals looking to broaden their cultural understanding and improve interactions with families from Central and Eastern European Countries, specifically those with a Roma background. Training will be delivered in two parts online, click below for training date options.
Prevent Training, delivered by Birmingham City Council’s Prevent Team
Date: 10am – 11am, Thursday 9th October.
Prevent is part of the UK Government Counter Terrorism Strategy and aims to support people who are susceptible to radicalisation. This training will aim to give an outline around what prevent is and its implications for professionals working with people in their local contexts. To find out more and sign up click HERE.
Supporting Early Language and the Home Learning Environment, delivered by the National Literacy Trust
Date: 10am – 11am, Wednesday 22nd October.
The National Literacy Trust will share their recent research around literacy in the home, how to empower parents and carers to improve early language, and lots of different resources to support parents and carers. To find out more and sign up click HERE.
Birmingham Health Partners Analysis of Sparkbrook Children’s Zone
We have been working with the Birmingham Health Partners who have been analysing Sparkbrook Children’s Zone and the potential our integrated service holds to cut costs whilst also improving the care available for children in the locality. Have a look at their findings below, or click here for the full article.
We are based in Balsall Heath, Sparkbrook, and Sparkhill because we know that in this area children, young people, and families tend to have poorer health outcomes; such as long-term asthma, tooth decay, and constipation.
Our families also need support for issues such as parenting, diet & nutrition, and behaviour. When families come to the Sparkbrook Children’s Zone clinic, we can support them with their children’s health needs and the wider holistic social care needs of the whole family.
To encourage families to be as healthy as possible, we promote the following advice:
- Have children vaccinated when they are offered it.
- Avoid smoking exposure.
- Attend school or nursery regularly.
- Take Healthy Start vitamins (free for under 4’s in Birmingham).
- Exercise.
- Avoid sugary snacks and drinks.