University of Sussex
Browse

File(s) not publicly available

'Starting young': health, well-being and early years

journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-08, 11:37 authored by Ann Mooney, Ian Warwick, June Statham, Janet BoddyJanet Boddy
Schools 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).

History

Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

ISSN

1466-4240

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

1

Volume

127

Page range

10-11

Department affiliated with

  • Education Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-05-11

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC