Healthy Schools Plus

Healthy Schools Plus is a ground-breaking initiative to bring about healthier behaviour amongst children and young people in the South West.

South West Healthy Schools Plus is supporting local health and education partnerships to develop strategies which will achieve measurable improvements in health and wellbeing.

The South West region has already been tremendously successful in implementing the National Healthy Schools Programme (NHSP) and demonstrating that schools fully recognise the impact that health has on behaviour, attainment and attendance.

South West Healthy Schools Plus is available to those schools that have achieved National Healthy School Status (NHSS) - giving them the opportunity to build upon a firm foundation and tackle some of the most pressing health issues.

The aim is to provide targeted support for schools where health needs are greatest in the first instance, with the intention of reducing health inequalities.