NELFT: Brighter Futures Healthy Families 0-19 Service

The Thurrock 0-19 Brighter Futures Healthy Families Service is an integrated service encompassing Health Visiting, School Health (historically School Nursing), targeted support and a range of health interventions for children, young people and their families.

Thurrock Health Visiting (0-5 years old): The Health Visiting Team offer support, information and advice to all parents with children within the Thurrock area from the antenatal stage (pre-birth) to the age of 5 years old. Support offered includes baby and child development, baby feeding, behaviour, antenatal and postnatal depression, parenting support and more. Find out more HERE.

Thurrock School Health (5-19 years old): We offer health information, support, and advice to children, young people and their families who attend an educational setting in Thurrock. We also provide support to children and young people in Thurrock who are not in education. Support offered includes healthy lifestyle, risky behaviours, toileting advice, hearing and vision checks, safeguarding, growth screening, and more. Find out more HERE. 

To make a referral, please email the relevent service:

Health Visiting (0-5): BrighterFutures.HealthyFamilies@nelft.nhs.uk
School Health (5-19): thurrockschoolhealth@nelft.nhs.uk

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