Healthcare Professionals

Barnet Safeguarding Children Community Team
Monday to Friday from 9.00am - 5.00pm.
Barnet Safeguarding Team Landline No:   020 3316 1091
Barnet Safeguarding Team Email Address: - safeguardingchildren.hcp4barnet@nhs.net

 

Staff Charlotte Davies, CDOP Clinical SPOC for Haringey and Islington
Email: charlotte.davies77@nhs.net

 

Caroline Loake
Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children
NHS North Central London ICB
Email: caroline.loake@nhs.net
Telephone: 07887 63369

Dr Prashant Desai
Named GP for Children’s Safeguarding
Email: Prashant.desai@nhs.net (please note, this is NOT for referrals but for advice only)

Telephone: 0208 449 2388

 

Dr Paul de Keyser
Designated Doctor for Safeguarding Children
Email: Paul.dekeyser@nhs.net

Telephone: 0208 216 5008 or 0208 216 5412

 

Lucy Naden
Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children
NHS North Central London ICB
Email: lucy.naden@nhs.net
Telephone: 07887 63369

Barnet Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Team (Children's)
Telephone:020 8359 4066. Out of Hours: The MASH team are available Monday to Thursday 9am to 5.15pm and Friday 9am to 5pm.Outside these hours you should report any concerns that need an immediate response to our emergency duty team on 020 8359 2000.

Email: mash@barnet.gov.uk  for non-emergency matters.

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is a mandated public health programme delivered by the School Nursing team in Reception and Year 6.

 

It is part of the governments approach to understanding and tackling childhood obesity. In addition the data can be used by local programmes to identify schools who may benefit from a whole school approach to maintaining an active lifestyle.

 

In Reception year, children in Barnet will also have their hearing and vision checked as part of our early detection strategy aimed at supporting parents to access services to enhance children’s learning and social development.

The School Nursing team provides health and wellbeing questionnaires for all students in Reception, Year 6, Year 9 and Year 11. These questionnaires provide; parents, children and young people the opportunity to share any health needs with the School Nursing team and gain support for those health needs.

 

Questionnaires will be offered electronically to all students in Barnet schools. An anonymised report will be shared with each school and the Barnet public health team to support the development of future services.

The relationships and sex education aspects of PSHE education will be compulsory in all schools from 2020.

 

Currently the Barnet school nursing team can offer each secondary school health related sessions based on their current need, in line with our 6 high impact areas. In addition we aim to build our primary school PHSE provision based on identified need from the responses of the parent and child health questionnaires.  We work closely with the School Health & Wellbeing Project Officer to co-ordinate health education sessions across Barnet.

 

Schools should contact their named School Nurse to discuss topics and delivery dates.

Children and young people should not be excluded or discriminated against because of a medical condition.

 

The Barnet School Nursing team can help to support schools who may have questions about supporting children and young people in school with medical needs.

 

Whittington Health provide school awareness sessions for; severe allergic reaction, asthma, epilepsy and type 2 diabetes. In addition we offer additional training sessions for staff in schools who have children with prescribed buccolam medication for epilepsy.

 

These sessions are delivered at the Barnet office and can be booked via email or telephone throughout the year. Invitations and awareness session dates will be sent to all schools at the start of each academic year.

 

** For children who attend school in another borough or attend a specialist school, we will signpost you to the local team. These teams will have the most current health information and have the opportunity to make contact with the child in school.