The aims of the Healthy Schools Programme are:
- To support children and young people in developing healthy behaviour
- To help to raise pupil achievement
- To help to reduce health inequalities
- To help to promote social inclusion.
Every local authority in England is working in partnership with Primary Care Trusts to implement the Healthy Schools Programme, with a local coordinator and a team from both education and health to manage and deliver the programme. Schools frequently offer many aspects of the Healthy Schools Programme through study support activities. In order to gain Healthy Schools Status, a school must demonstrate evidence across four key themes of Personal, Social and Health Education (including sex and relationships and drugs education), healthy eating, physical activity, and emotional health and well being (including approaches to bullying). Much of this evidence will come from activities, which pupils engage in as part of the school's study support programme.
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