Scottish Government guidance, standards and strategies: Health

Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland
Scottish Executive's response to the two consultation documents 'Towards Better Oral Health in Children' and 'Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland'.

Eating for Health: Meeting the Challenge
A strategic framework to be used as a basis for developing further food and health policy and to guide national and local food and health action plans.

Health for All Children 4: guidance on implementation in Scotland
Guidance prepared to support consistent implementation of the recommendations in the fourth UK report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), Health for All Children (Hall 4), throughout Scotland. It sets out an evidence-based framework for intervention to assess, monitor and support children's health and development throughout childhood and adolescence, based on staged intervention and underpinned by strong health promotion activities.

Improving Health in Scotland – the Challenge
This document sets out a strategy to improve the health of all the people in Scotland and to narrow the opportunity gap/improve the health of our most disadvantaged communities.

Independent Evaluation of 'Starting Well' Final Report
Report on Phase One of 'Starting Well', the Scottish Executive-funded, national health demonstration project for child health. 'Starting Well' was based on the belief that early years interventions can help to break the cycle of poverty that limits the opportunities available to children born into the most disadvantaged circumstances.

National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Well-Being
This is an action plan that sets out the main aims and areas of activity for national work and provides a suggested outline for local areas to follow. Early years is one of the action plan's main areas. It sets the objective to improve infant mental health and to integrate mental health in all work on early years. The plan highlights a number of key areas for action, including: antenatal care; parenting; early intervention for postnatal depression; home visits; and community-led family centres.

Nutritional guidance for early years
This Scottish Executive guidance is for providers of childcare for children aged 1-5 years who provide food (including snacks) and/or drinks. It will apply to a wide range of providers, including local authority nurseries, private nurseries, playgroups, childminders, toddler groups, crèches, school meal services and family centres 

Putting the Pieces in Place: Scotland's Health Improvement Fund
The purpose of the Fund is to support health improvement work in Scotland. This document sets out the investment priorities for the Fund.

Reduce the risk of cot death - an easy guide
This Scottish Executive advice on how to reduce the risk of cot death (or sudden infant death syndrome) can be read online or saved for printing as a PDF file. It includes a list of the symptoms of serious illness.

Strategy for Physical Activity: Physical Activity Task Force
'Let's Make Scotland More Active' is a strategy whose aim is to ensure that people in Scotland enjoy the benefits of having a physically active life. It suggests that this needs changes in both policy and culture.

Towards Better Oral Health in Children: Independent analysis of consultation responses
Results of the consultation carried out under the commitment made in 'Our Health: a plan for action, a plan for change' (Scottish Executive, 2000).

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