Healthy Eating & Oral Health: Policy, Guidance and Evidence (Primary)

Policy, Guidance and Evidence to support in the delivery of the Healthy Learning Healthy Lives Agenda.

The Independent School Food Plan

http://www.schoolfoodplan.com/

Published by the Department for Education in July 2013, it sets out seventeen actions to transform what children eat in schools and how they learn about food.

Healthy Eating Teacher Training

Guidance from Public Health England on ways to improve how you plan and teach healthy eating.

Doncaster's Obesity Plan for Collaboratives

As part of a focus onaddressingchildhoodobesitythisreportandplanwasproducedbyPublicHealthforEarlyHelpCollaboratives. It contains local data and recommendations for action at a school level. Collaboratives are partnership groups based around the School Pyramid areas, they aim to pool expertise and resources in order improve the lives of children and young people.

Collaborative Obesity Plan - November 2017: Download (3.53MB)

Doncaster Food Guide

DMBC Healthy Eating Guide 2016

Download (4.3MB)

This resource is designed to give you the basic knowledge and tools you need to promote healthier diets with a range of people, in a range of local settings. This guide is aimed at people who may have the opportunity to promote healthier eating with the people they live and work with.

SugarSmart Webinar: Sugar reduction in schools and school meals

Webinar from February 2019 that explored working with schools and school caterers to reduce sugar consumption in schools, from school meals to birthdays, special occasions and packed lunches. One in three children leave primary school overweight or obese, so this is a crucial period to support them to develop healthier eating habits that will serve them for the rest of their lives. This webinar shared examples from schools improving their school food culture to do just that.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

NICE Guidance 246 – Overweight and Obesity Management

Overview | Overweight and obesity management | Guidance | NICE

This guideline makes recommendations on behaviours that may help people maintain a healthy weight or prevent excess weight gain. The recommendations support those made in other NICE guidelines about effective interventions and activities to prevent people becoming overweight or obese. This includes interventions and activities in which weight is not the primary outcome, such as those aimed at preventing cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes, improving mental wellbeing or increasing active travel.

Preventing and managing overweight and obesity are complex problems, with no easy answers. This guidance offers practical recommendations based on the evidence. The guidance aims to:

stem the rising prevalence of obesity and diseases associated with it
increase the effectiveness of interventions to prevent overweight and obesity
improve the care provided to adults and children at risk of overweight and obesity.

Section 1.6 is aimed at Schools.

Policy Evaluation Resource

Policy Evaluation Proforma: Download (189KB - DOC)

Case Study Template

To demonstrate examples of good practice, identifying and addressing emerging issues or implementing feedback, a Case Study is a great way to document progress.