The Barnsley Healthy School Scheme offers advice and support to schools to develop a whole school community approach to health improvement, reducing health inequalities, raising educational attainment and promoting social inclusion. It is a partnership between NHS Barnsley and the Local Education Authority and received National Accreditation in 2001.The team consists of a Healthy Schools Coordinator, a Sex and Relationship Education Consultant, Healthy School Development Worker, Health Promotion Worker, Smoke Stop Coordinator for Young People, PSHE Consultant Teacher and an Administration Officer.

The Team :-

Sue Copeland - Healthy Schools Scheme Coordinator

Sue has a background in General Nursing and more recently School Nursing, having worked in both mainstream and Special Schools. Sue now coordinates the Barnsley Healthy School Scheme. Her role involves working on a multi-agency level and linking into the strategic partnerships across Barnsley.

Healthy School Team
Longcar Professional Development Centre
Longcar Lane
Barnsley S70 6BB
Tel: 01226 720335
Email: susancopeland@barnsley.gov.uk

Bernadette Lally - Healthy School Development Worker

Bernadette's background is in health and since 2003 her involvement has been in School Health. Her role is to support schools to develop, achieve, embed and sustain Healthy Schools Status. She also leads on Emotional Health & Well Being, again to support schools to develop, achieve, embed abd sustain the criteria within this strand of the Healthy School agenda. Examples of such support may incude addressing training needs to meet the criteria or supporting school to network with the wider school community to address the needs of their school.

Healthy School Team
Longcar Professional Development Centre
Longcar Lane
Barnsley S70 6BB
Tel: 01226 720332
Email: bernadettelally@barnsley.gov.uk

Colette Hallas - Sex and Relationship Education Consultant

Colette started her post as SRE Consultant within the Healthy School Team at the beginning of July 2007.  Her role is to support schools to develop sex and relationship education and school based health servies, and link with agencies that support schools to achieve the Healthy School Standard.  She will be able to provide information and help on organisation and delivery of SRE, policy and programme development, consultation with pupils, parents and school staff, resources, classroom teaching and assessment strategies and team teaching.  She can train teams of staff in individual schools but will also be developing and delivering borough wide SRE training.

Healthy School Team

Longcar Professional Development Centre
Longcar Lane
Barnsley S70 6BB
Tel: 01226 720375

Email: colettehallas@barnsley.gov.uk

Joanne Birkett - Administration Officer/Website Administrator

Joanne has a background of working in an office environment and has worked for the NHS for 8 years. Joanne has been in post since April 2003 and her role within Public Health is to provide administrative support to the Healthy School Team and website administration.

Healthy School Team
Longcar Professional Development Centre
Longcar Lane
Barnsley S70 6BB
Tel: 01226 720313

Email: joannebirkett@barnsley.gov.uk

Jeff Platts - Smoke Free Lead for Children and Young People

Jeff started within the Healthy School team in March 2009 and his role is to lead and develop a multi-agency, evidence based tobacco control programme to help young people be smoke free. He will assist schools to implement a "whole school approach" to tobacco control and ensure that the project develops closely with other tobacco control initiatives and contributes to the overall programme to reduce smoking related inequalities in health. Jeff has a background in Youth and Community work and has worked in Barnsley for a number of years in a variety of roles.

Healthy School Team
Longcar Professional Development Centre
Longcar Lane
Barnsley S70 6BB
Tel: 01226

Email: jeffplatts@barnsley.gov.uk