Wakefield

Our services

The Growing Healthy Wakefield 0 to 19 Children’s Service provides Health Visiting and School Nursing Support – working with Children, Young People and their families to ensure that Children have the best start in life and are able to fulfil their potential.

The service comprises varied public health practitioners working across the 0 to 19 Service. In Wakefield, we have numerous Growing Healthy Services such as the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) and Parent and Infant Relationship Team (PAIR). For further information about the specific services that can be accessed in your area, please click here.

How the Great Start in Life Foundation impacts our local community

The Great Start in Life Foundation will help Children, Young People and families throughout Wakefield to enhance the Health Visitor and School Nursing Services we provide, to ensure the Children and Young People who access these services have a Great Start in Life. We fund specialist equipment, training and services, going above and beyond the provision of the services for Children, Young People and their families to help enhance treatment and facilities for all within Wakefield.

Our work benefits patients, their families and our workforce throughout the local area and we rely on the support of the community to raise funds. From “Stepping Up for GSIL” by taking on a marathon to having a local tea, coffee and cake morning, every effort you make will have an impact on the Children, Young People and their families across Wakefield.

Through your support, we have been able to distribute care packages to colleagues, enhance the environment and experiences of service users as well as distribute lots of fantastic Sparkle Awards to our team HDFT colleagues that have gone above and beyond for our wonderful service users. We were able to provide our Wakefield colleagues with Great Start in Life merchandise to support outreach events they currently do, engaging with and listening to service users and their families to assist in enhancing the service that they access.

If you are part of a community group, school, Brownies or Cubs pack, or you just want to get a group of friends together to fundraise for us and would like more information about how you can get involved, please get in touch.