The School Health Research Network (SHRN) is delighted to have received funding from the Welsh Government to help build the next phase of their ambitious and exciting programme of work.
The School Health Research Network (SHRN) is now embedded across the education and health and wellbeing delivery system at national, regional and local levels. The next phase of SHRN represents an exciting development, undertaking the integration of secondary and primary school work across the national education and public health system. This next phase will deliver a wide range of value-added new benefits:
- Established systems and processes for alternate biennial cycles of data collection in primary (years 2024 and 2026) and secondary (years 2025 and 2027) schools.
- Heightened policy monitoring capabilities through an expanded dataset which captures national data from children ages 7-18 years.
- Enhanced production of high-quality and timely policy relevant outputs for key national and regional partners through a Public Health Wales and Welsh Government partnership approach.
- Increased data analysis and outputs by working towards an open access depository of SHRN data and supporting further data linkage opportunities of education, health and wellbeing and environmental routine datasets.
- Enhanced data sharing and outputs through an increased number of national indicators and the availability of primary school data via the Public Health Observatory SHRN dashboard.
- Dynamic interactive school data dashboards to be phased in that provide trend data for SHRN schools in Wales to inform health action planning.
- An innovative knowledge exchange and communications platform developed with and for schools and the public to enhance dissemination and impact, includinga new digital platform to support recruitment, retention, coproduction, and knowledge exchange.
Simon Murphy, Professor in Social Interventions and Health, Director DECIPHer, and Lead for the Schools Health Research Network, said :
‘This is an exciting new phase for SHRN covering both primary and secondary school. We are looking forward to working with centres and policy/practice/public partners across SPARK to develop bids drawing on what is a unique and rich longitudinal and time trends data set going back 10 years’.
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