What are the challenges?

The challenge for schools and their partners is to embed their work around health promoting schools within ongoing school improvement planning and self evaluation processes.

For planning, refer to:

For self evaluation, please refer to:

Curriculum for Excellence and Health and Wellbeing are core aspects of the new curriculum in Scotland.

It is also vital that the development of health promoting schools appears in local health improvement plans produced by community planners to deliver integrated services and many local authorities already have support structures and policy statements in place to help this process.

Another challenge is to recognise the good practice already going on in many schools across Scotland and to build on that progress and success. Some schools have been accredited as health promoting by their local authority or NHS board but it is important that good practice continues to be extended, improved and embedded.

Training and support for staff are essential to ensure that they are able to support effectively the development of health promoting schools.