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'Starting young': health, well-being and early years
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posted on 2023-06-08, 11:37 authored by Ann Mooney, Ian Warwick, June Statham, Janet BoddyJanet BoddySchools are seen to have an important role to play in promoting good health.1 The National Healthy Schools Programme (NHSP) in England – launched in 1999 as the National Healthy Schools Standard – is seen by many policy-makers and practitioners as one key means to improve children’s and young people’s health and well-being. Participation of schools in the programme is voluntary, although encouraged. The Choosing Health White Paper stated that half of all schools should reach healthy school status by 2006 with the rest working towards it by 2009. The NHSP is a joint initiative between the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills. Primary and secondary schools are awarded healthy school status if they can demonstrate that, through a whole school approach, they are promoting children’s health in four core areas: nutrition/healthy eating; physical activity; emotional health and well-being (including bullying); and personal, social and health education (including sex and relationships education and drug education).
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Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of HealthISSN
1466-4240Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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1Volume
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10-11Department affiliated with
- Education Publications
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2012-05-11Usage metrics
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