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Health Related Behaviour Survey 2008

A Health Related Behaviour Survey was carried out between Summer and Autumn 2008. The work was commissioned and co-ordinated by the Joint Commissioning Group for Young People's Substance Misuse and the Health and Wellbeing Team. The data will be used to support the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme. Year 5 and 6 pupils completed the Primary version of the questionnaire, Years 8 and 10 completed the Secondary version. A total of over 10,500 pupils took part in 92 primary schools and 30 secondary schools in Hertfordshire.

Summary reports are available for Hertfordshire as a whole and each of the ten District Council areas.

• Health Related Behaviour Survey 2008

Guide to the nutrient-based standards

A guide to introducing the Government's food-based and nutrient-based standards for school lunches.

The School Food Trust has produced this guide to assist everyone involved in the provision of school food. It provides information on how to meet, implement and monitor the Government’s food-based and nutrient-based standards for school lunches. This guide includes three primary school case studies showing the steps these schools took to meet the nutrient-based standards ahead of the September 2008 deadline.

• www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/Guide to the nutrient-based standards

Ofsted: Time for change? Personal, Social & Health Education

At a time of considerable change for personal, social and health education (PSHE), this report evaluates the current provision: whether it is based sufficiently closely on the needs of young people and how the outcomes might be best achieved. It considers the pressures that children and young people face as they mature and discusses the significant role played by most parents in advising and supporting their children. Schools and PSHE programmes in particular, have a major part to play in the personal and social development of young people.

• Acrobat pdf, 192kb/26 pages, 05/06/2007, time_for_chnge_PSHE.pdf

Smokefree England 1 July 2007

What it means for schools

A law requiring smokefree environments in workplaces, including all schools, comes into effect on 1 July 2007. The legislation ensures that workers and members of the public are protected from the risks to health from tobacco smoke and are guaranteed their right to a smokefree environment.

• Word 2003, 488kb/2 pages, 19/04/2007, Smokefree Legislation.doc

Free signage for your school together with further information can be obtained from the following website:

• Smokefree England

Review of the environmental dimension of children and young people's well-being

This report was commissioned by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), as part of their
project Every Child’s Future Matters. It was researched and written by the centre for well-being, nef (the new economics foundation).

• www.sd-commission.org.uk

Ofsted: Healthy schools, healthy children?

The contribution of education to pupils’ health and well-being

This report looks at the contribution of education to pupils’ health and well-being. It is based on visits to 18 schools selected because of their good practice in the context of health education. It is the first major Ofsted survey on the broader aspects of health and well-being since the introduction of the Every Child Matters agenda. The findings are intended to disseminate best practice and to help institutions improve this aspect of their work.  

• Acrobat pdf, 155kb/27 pages, 24/01/2007, ofsted_healthy schools, healthy children