Asthma is the most common long-term medical condition in children.
It affects 1 in 11 children, which equates to 3 children in every UK classroom.
Asthma has significant impacts on a child’s health, well-being, and learning.
It can lead to emergency hospital admissions, and absences from school.
The Asthma Friendly Schools (AFS) programme is aimed at improving asthma recognition and management within schools. This helps schools to support children in managing their asthma, prevent school absences, and reduce the chance of a child's death attributable to asthma.
To be certified as asthma friendly, each school must have:
All schools taking part will be audited by the School Health Service.
Improving asthma management within schools in this way has many benefits, including:
Read more information about the Asthma Friendly Schools programme.
Haringey Public Health Team host termly training days for Asthma Leads and Champions. The training dates for the 2024/25 academic year are:
Each of these dates has a morning session (9:30-11:30am in person at Wood Green) and an afternoon session (3.30-5:30pm via Microsoft Teams).
To sign up for Asthma Friendly Schools training, please fill in our expression of interest form.
Alternatively, contact your school nurse or email healthy.schools@haringey.gov.uk
If you would like to become an Asthma Friendly School, please contact your school nurse or healthy.schools@haringey.gov.uk.
