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Full reports are received from boarding schools and day
special schools outside the Borough where Redbridge children
occupy places. In the case of children attending boarding
schools a school nurse makes an annual visit when the child
is home on holiday. Social welfare workers also visit some of
these children.
Case conferences about the future of handicapped schoolleavers
are held regularly and are attended by all professional
workers, including the Youth Employment Officer, concerned
with the placement of handicapped school leavers. Support for
the handicapped young person is continued after leaving school
and is then the responsibility of medical and social workers.
The Central Register of all casework which has been set
up in the Health Department ensures the maximum co-ordination
between all case workers.
It was felt that while generally the three services worked
satisfactorily and were well co-ordinated some improvement
was desirable in the part played by the Hospital Authorities
in providing full information to this Authority.
Health
Education in
Schools
Miss K. M. E. Griffiths, Health Education Officer, reports
as follows:—
"Work in the Schools has increased during 1966 and the
demand for speakers and teaching aids is growing. In Secondary
Schools programmes of Health Education are arranged and
carried out by the Health Visitors and Departmental Staff, and
increasingly these programmes are becoming part of the school
syllabus.
One example of Health Education programme for Senior
Secondary School Children would include the following topics:-
Personal Responsibilities
Good Grooming
Skin, hair, foot health, Dental Health
Food Hygiene
Human Relationships
Growing Up
Boy — girl friendships
Courtship and Marriage
How Life Begins
Child Development
Use of Leisure