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Child Safety Week: 'Safety in mind'
June will be with us in no time and it’s time to start thinking about how you will promote Child Safety Week. Running from 6-12 June, the theme is ‘safety in mind’. The week aims to enable parents to have an awareness of the main unintentional injury risks that children face in everyday life, and to keep simple prevention measures and actions in the front of mind.
What you can do:
- Discuss plans for Child Safety Week with colleagues.
- Download and use Child Accident Prevention Trust’s resources. These include:
- Child Safety Week poster
- Fact sheets translated into five languages Topics include fire safety, water safety, falls, poisoning prevention and road safety.
- Home safety session plans for groups of parents/carers with children under 5
- Sign up to receive further news and resources about Child Safety Week, including social media assets.
- Share Facebook posts about Child Safety Week.
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Walk this May!
May is Living Streets' National Walking Month. This year, we are all encouraged to #Try20 - and walk for 20 minutes each day during May, if we can. View further information, #Try20 tips, and other resources here.
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Give us a smile!
16 May – 16 June is National Smile Month.
This is a fantastic opportunity to remind the communities that you work with of the following important messages.
- Brush your teeth twice a day for two minutes, with fluoride toothpaste.
- Floss between your teeth or use an interdental brush every day.
- Aim for a healthy lifestyle, including eating well, not smoking and limiting your alcohol and sugar intake. The B&NES Community Wellbeing Hub can help with this: https://communitywellbeinghub.co.uk/ Check out the fun resources for families on eating well and reducing sugar here https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/food-facts/
- Brush baby teeth as soon as they come through: Here are tips on looking after your baby's teeth, including the importance of avoiding sweetened foods and drinks.
- Get children into a teeth-cleaning routine: Read more about how to look after your children's teeth.
- Have regular dental check-ups. Very few people enjoy going to the dentist, but finding problems early can mean they're easier to treat. A wide range of dental treatments are readily available on the NHS. Find your local dentist: https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-dentist
To find out if you are eligible for free dentistry, visit: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/who-is-entitled-to-free-nhs-dental-treatment-in-england/
Contact us for template social media posts to share: public_health@bathnes.gov.uk
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Sexual Health Training Programme:
New sexual health training dates available
FREE C-card / SAFE Sexual Health Training:
• Tuesday 3rd of May 2pm
• Wednesday 18th of May 10am
• Thursday 9th of June 10am
• Wednesday 6th of July 2pm
• Wednesday 10th of August 9.30am
• Thursday 15th of September 2pm
Book a place via the Eventbrite link at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/c-card-safe-sexual-health-training-tickets-166809167711
The C-card scheme is a free condom distribution scheme, enabling young people between the ages of 13 and 24 to access free condoms from various locations across B&NES. This course will help you understand the rationale and process in becoming a C-card scheme provider. If you are new to a service which provides the C-card scheme, you must also receive this training to enable you to participate in C-card. We are always encouraging new services to become C-card providers – so this training is also for you!
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 B&NES Infection, Prevention and Control’s World Hand Hygiene Day Event
When: Thursday 5th May, 1:30-4pm
Where: Community Space (above the library), Keynsham.
B&NES IP&C Team’s theme for World Hand Hygiene Day is ‘challenging yourself to have hands that are safe’.
Washing hands properly is one of the most important things individuals can do to help prevent and control the spread of many illnesses. Good hand hygiene will reduce the risk of illnesses like flu, stomach upsets, COVID-19 and other infections being passed from person to person.
This event is open to everyone (children and adults) to come along and take the interactive hand wash challenge. See if you have washed your germs away! Test your knowledge of hand hygiene and complete the quiz!
Read more about the globally celebrated WHO Hand Hygiene Day: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-hand-hygiene-day/2022
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Skin Cancer Awareness Month
This May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Skin cancer is the 5th most common cancer in the UK according to the NHS. Approximately 16,000 new case of melanoma are diagnosed every year and more than 1 in 4 skin cancer cases are diagnosed in people under 50 which is a lot younger than the average figures for most other types of cancer.
The Skin Cancer Foundation run campaigns every Skin Cancer Awareness month. This includes online campaigns such as '#SharetheFacts' https://www.skincancer.org/get-involved/skin-cancer-awareness-month/toolkit/ which encourages people to download a pack of images with helpful information, facts and figures about skin cancer and how to detect it.
Use the Cancer Research UK site to check for symptoms and book to see your GP if you notice any of the symptoms apply to you. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/skin-cancer
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National Children’s Gardening Week: 28 May – 5 June
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Living Safely with COVID-19 in the Workplace Tool Kit
Below is a locally developed tool that employers/managers can use to help assess whether a member of staff (or volunteer) is at greater risk to developing serious illness when infected with COVID-19. The tool offers practical actions that employers/managers and staff/volunteers can take to reduce this risk.
Living Safely with COVID-19 in the Workplace Tool Kit
This Tool Kit can also be found on our Coronavirus information and advice page under ‘help for businesses.
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Upcoming vaccination clinics
There's still time to grab your first, second or booster doses at the following upcoming clinic:
Bath City Football Club, Twerton, BA2 1DB
- Wednesday 18 May, 11am-6pm
This clinic will offer
- 1st and 2nd doses for people aged 12 years old and over (School Year 8 and above)
- boosters for people aged 16 years old and over, plus at-risk children aged 12 to 15 years old
- spring boosters for people aged 75 years old and over, plus people aged 12 years old and over with a weakened immune system
- additional primary doses for people with a severely weakened immune system aged 12 years old and over
If you’ve had a positive Covid-19 test, you need to wait before getting any dose of the vaccine. You need to wait:
- 4 weeks/28 days: aged 18+ and at risk 12-17 year olds
- 12 weeks/84 days: aged 12-17
This starts from the date you had symptoms, or the date of the positive test if you did not have any symptoms.
Other Vaccine Information
- Covid 19 vaccinations can be booked for children aged 5-11 through the National Booking System (NBS), there are more clinics being added to the NBS each day with availability currently up until May half term.
- Spring Booster-Those over 75 years of age or those aged 12 and over who have a weakened immune system, should not wait for a NHS letter, instead they should go ahead and arrange their vaccination if there has been 182 days (6 months) since their last booster.
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Don’t Miss Your Shot- Bath City Football Club
Footballers from Bath City FC have told fans: Don’t miss your shot, in a new film from Bath and North East Somerset Council.
As more information is released about the Spring booster campaign, which is open to people aged 75 years and over, those in care homes and those aged 12 years and over with a weakened immune system, players are reminding fans how great it’s been to have them back in the stadium and that this has been largely due to the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
You can watch the film here: https://youtu.be/6rPwL5wT65U
Made in partnership with the Council, Royal United Hospital, and the football club, players have reminded fans about the importance of taking one for the team, and making sure they get their vaccination to protect friends, family, and themselves.
And it’s not too late. Thousands of people across the district are yet to receive their first, second or booster jab, but going online to book an appointment, or to find a walk-in clinic is easy.
To book an appointment: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
To find a walk in clinic: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/find-a-walk-in-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-site/
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Grab a Cab
B&NES Council launched a ‘Grab a Cab’ initiative which aims to make it easier for people who find it hard to access large vaccination sites. This will be running up until Thursday 30th June.
B&NES residents can travel for free in a taxi to a vaccination site also within B&NES.
The vaccination must be pre booked and evidence of the appointment must be shown to the taxi driver. Evidence can include a screen shot on a mobile phone/tablet or print out.
To access the service, residents will need to call V-Cars on 01225 46 46 46 and say they’d like to book a taxi on account, quoting:
- Account number: BA-TTV 01
- Account Name: Grab A Cab and
- Password: Vaccination Site.
The taxi driver will pick them up and take to the appointment, the return journey must be within an hour of the appointment time.
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B&NES Early Help
Do you work with children, young people or parent/carers? If so, do you know about the Early Help App?
For more information, please click here.
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