How has everyone gone on with this years programme? I have finished it on one half of my caseload and now need to start the other side. Overall it seems to have gone ok but we have still had schools that do not seem to understand that this is a joint peice of work between health and education.

It think it is an ideal opportunity to improve our working relationships with schools. We do not seem to be visiting schools as much as we used to, perhaps because our role has become more public health focussed?

I am always feel quite sad by the amount of children who are worried about their weight and are therefore reluctant to be weighed. They seem to find it very difficult even in year 6 and will often comment on their size / shape. I hope we will be able to continue to develop our services and partnership working to address some of these issues in the future and start to reduce some of the eating disorders, self harm and other destructive behaviours we see in the older children and teenagers.