Training & Building Capacity

Delivering training to prison staff

Nutrition Awareness and REHIS Food and Health Training

During a recent National Prison Care Network training needs analysis across Prison Healthcare in Scotland, a need for training in nutrition, food and health was identified.

The Public Health Nutrition Team developed a bespoke food and nutrition training package and offered it to all healthcare staff across the 3 Forth Valley prisons. REHIS Introduction to Food and Health was delivered as part of the training, as an incentive for staff to attend, and after completing a learning check quiz, all staff that attended received a REHIS qualification and award.

32 Prison Healthcare Staff Attended

Thanks, this information will help me educate my patients on healthy eating and now I know where to access information!

'I'd like to create a Nutrition Awareness Board in the Health Centre and will email all my colleagues the resources and links from today'

Early Years Nutrition and Porridge Pot Training

Early years nutrition training was delivered to 5 members of staff from the visitor centre and SPS Family Contact Officers from HMPYOI Polmont. The morning session was engaging and interactive and included an Early Years Nutrition Quiz and a practical 'porridge' cooking competition!

Following on from the training the visitor centre was awarded a funding agreement from our team to deliver an 'Eat Breakfast Every Day' Campaign and 35 Porridge Pot packs were on offer to visiting families.

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We received funding to enable us to run the 'Porridge Pot' project, this meant we could provide families with a canvas bag with the necessary equipment and ingredients to make a variety of porridge based recipes, along with a copy of the children's book. This was a fun way to introduce porridge to many of the families coming to the prison, who would not previously have been used to cooking with porridge oats, giving them a cheap, healthy and easy snack option.

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