What are the Health and Wellbeing Awards?
The Milton Keynes Health and Wellbeing Award is available to all settings that work with children and young people, such as children and family centres, nurseries, and schools. The Award is led by Milton Keynes Council and was developed by the Public Health Team and partner organisations including the NHS and Youth Services.
The Award provides strong evidence that your setting is committed to improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of the children and young people that you serve. Holding the Award and the supporting evidence shows commitment to the Healthy Child Programme and provides Ofsted with a powerful portfolio, demonstrating the setting's approach and actions to improve the health and wellbeing of its children, young people and families. It also provides a useful framework for your setting to show what has been achieved to date and create plans for future improvements.
The MK Children and Family centres, Giffard Park School or Ducklings at Westcroft have recently received their new Health and Wellbeing awards as pictured below!
Application process
Whether you are an Early Years, Primary, Secondary or non school setting the application process is the same. Please use the guidance and complete the Health and Wellbeing award application form below:
When completing these audits see completed example and think about:
- examples of practice – what are you doing within your setting to support this?
- examples of impact – have you seen positive changes? How do you know this has happened? Do you have evidence to show this has happened?
- examples of future plans – what can you develop? Have you identified any gaps? What are the timescales for these plans?
Public Health have the Workplace Health Standards, a framework to support your staffs health and wellbeing, complementing the Health and Wellbeing Awards for your setting, please see link below for more information and the application process to achieve these.