To be healthy is the first outcome of the Every Child Matters Change for Children.

Children and young people in Sunderland want to be healthy.

This means being physically, mentally and sexually healthy. It means enjoying sport and exercise and being a healthy weight. It also means getting good family health services and not doing alcohol, drugs or smoking.

Children's Services provide the following services to help children and young people to be healthy.

Drugs, alcohol and smoking

Early Childhood Services

Mental health and emotional well-being

Physical activity, leisure and sports

School meals

Teenage pregnancy

Sexual health

Substance misuse

Other useful information:

Childhood immunisation

NHS Direct - delivering 24-hour health care information by telephone (0845 4647) and e-health services direct to the public.

Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust - Primary Care Trusts work with local GPs and their teams, with dentists, pharmacists and optometrists, with the local authority and hospital trusts and with patients, carers and the public to improve the health of local people and provide high quality, local health services.

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - provides a wide range of hospital services to the local community along with an increasing range of more specialised services to patients outside this area. Whilst the main focus of the services is acute, the Trust also provides a substantial range of community-based services.

Eat well, be well - information on Food Standards Agency website helping you make healthier choices.

Hospice care for children

Vaccinations for children and travellers

For further details or enquiries you can email: childrens.services.info@sunderland.gov.uk  or telephone us on 0191 520 5555.

Return to Children's Services home page