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Schools health promotion and nutrition act 2007 for scotland

        Contents
 
PART 1: health promotion
 s1. Duties in relation to promotion of health
 s2. Annual statement: account of health promotion
PART 2: Food and drink
PART 3: General

  Related documents and pages                          

  1. Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Act 2007
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PART 1:  Health promotion

 

1   Duties in relation to promotion of health

 

After section 2 of the 2000 Act insert-

 

             "Health promotion        

 

     2A Duties in relation to promotion of health        

            (1) The Scottish Ministers must endeavour to ensure that-            

 (a) schools managed by education authorities,         

 (b) grant-aided schools, and

(c) hostels provided and maintained by education authorities for pupils, are health-promoting.  

 

            (2) An education authority must endeavour to ensure that-            

 (a) schools managed by them, and  

 (b) hostels provided and maintained by them for pupils,         

      are health-promoting.     

 

(3) The managers of a grant-aided school must endeavour to ensure that the school is health-promoting. 

      

(4) In carrying out the duty imposed by subsection (2) or (3), an education authority or, as   the case may be, the managers of a grant-aided school must have regard to any      guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this section.      

 

(5) In this section, a school or hostel is "health-promoting" if it provides (whether on its        own or in conjunction with Health Boards, parents or any other person)-             

            (a)  activities, and    

(b)  an environment and facilities,      

      which promote the physical, social, mental and emotional health and well-being of pupils     in attendance at the school or residing in the hostel.".            

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2 Annual statement: account of health promotion

 

In section 5 of the 2000 Act (education authority's annual statement of education improvement objectives)-

(a) in subsection (1), for "duty under section" substitute "duties under sections 2A(2) and", and

(b) in subsection (2), after "account" insert-

"(za) of the ways in which the authority will seek to carry out the duty imposed by section 2A(2);".

 

 

 

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