Healthier Futures Barnsley

About the accreditation

The accreditation will support you to improve the health and wellbeing of the children and families you work with.

To support you, you'll have access to a online platform where you can upload your evidence. You'll be able to use this for Ofsted inspections, consultations with parents and other key review meetings. Your assessment will be done by our Public Health team, and we'll send you feedback via the platform and email. This approach allows us to give you one to one support.

The accreditation is free and is valid for three years.

Criteria

There are four key parts to the accreditation. Each has the same five criteria that need to be met.

Elements

Emotional health and wellbeing
Food, drink and oral health
Personal, social health education (PSHE)
Physical activity

Criteria for each element

CPD and training
Environment
Partnerships
Policy
Teaching and learning

The criteria allows you to provide your evidence in a way that suits you. There's no 'one size fits all' approach. Plus, you'll have support from us throughout when needed.

The criteria has been developed by the Healthy Learning Healthy Lives team at Doncaster Council. It's also been evaluated by Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. This has ensured it's a high quality and robust framework.

Stages

Stage	Steps
1 - Sign up	Complete and return the privacy statement. Receive your login details.
2 - Self assessment	RAG (red, amber, green) rate the online wheel. Upload your evidence. Request feedback and assessment when you're ready.
3 - Evidence review	Public Health officer feedback and comments. Ongoing one to one support.
4 - Accreditation	Receive your certification (valid for three years). Work towards the enhanced reward (optional).