Secretary of State, Ed Balls and Head of the National Healthy Schools Programme, Richard Sangster, unveil plans for the next phase of Healthy Schools, as they share a vision for improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people to a conference of headteachers today.

Addressing more than 100 headteachers at Health and Wellbeing in the 21st Century School, a conference at Ossett High School in Wakefield, Ed Balls highlighted the Government�s vision for schools in the future which will better support children and young people with statutory health and wellbeing indicators. 

As Healthy Schools, the joint Department of Health (DH) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) initiative, celebrates its tenth birthday year, plans were also outlined for the programme�s next phase, in line with the Government�s increasing emphasis on the widening role of schools as articulated in The Children�s Plan and its vision of a 21st Century School.

Read the full press notice on the Healthy School's website.