OUR ORGANISATION

Members join as individuals and NAHHT offers a local and regional network for support and guidance.

NAHHT divides the UK into 8 areas. Each area has 3 representatives on the national committee.

The committee meets 3 or 4 times a year to oversee the management of the association.

OUR MEMBERS

Hospital Teachers - employed in a hospital school, service or Pupil Referral Unit whose core work is the education of children and young people whose medical needs, which may include teenage pregnancy, prevent them from attending school.

Home Teachers - in the broadest sense, teachers who work in settings outside school which may also often not be at home, such as in libraries, community centres, clinics.

OUR AIMS

We strive to raise the standards of education for young people who are temporarily or permanently disadvantaged by illness or other medical or mental health conditions.

We actively promote our children and young people's entitlement to high quality educational opportunities.

We support our members in continuing professional development to achieve these high standards.

NAHHT started over 20 years ago as The National Standing Conference of Hospital Teachers. Our new name reflects changes in paediatric care since the 1990s which mean more children need to be taught at home after ever shorter stays in hospital.

NAHHT supports members in 8 regions across the UK:

• N East & Scotland
• N West
• Yorkshire
• W Midlands
• E Midlands
• S West & Wales
• London
• N Ireland