Menstrual health of girls and young women
This report examines the menstrual health of girls and young women, highlighting persistent barriers to timely diagnosis, treatment, and support for menstrual health conditions.
This report examines the menstrual health of girls and young women, highlighting persistent barriers to timely diagnosis, treatment, and support for menstrual health conditions.
“Characteristics, experiences and outcomes of children registered – and not registered, when entitled – for free school meals” is an output of a wider project funded by the Nuffield Foundation: “What has FSM measured and what are the implications?” It is published alongside the project’s main pub
This project explored the free school meals (FSM) measure in the National Pupil Database, and its use in research, policymaking, and practice.
The aims of this study are: to explore views about the nature of any relationship between pupil wellbeing and school attendance; to understand other factors that may have affected school attendance since the Covid-19 pandemic; to investigate views about the range of support approaches offered by
The United Against Bullying Plus (UAB+) programme integrates two existing approaches: a whole-school anti-bullying approach; with targeted components for those most at risk of perpetrating and experiencing bullying. The programme was delivered by the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) and Kidscape.
The Nourish programme is School Food Matters’ flagship school food improvement programme that supports schools to create a food environment that puts children and young people’s nutrition first.
This policy brief shows how improving the quality of food leads to more children eating school food and demonstrates that this is what young people need. The briefing brings together two powerful bodies of evidence to make that case.
This Joint Action Plan draws together a wide range of actions which will be taken in response to the current evidence on relationships and behaviours in Scotland’s schools. The joint action plan sets out 20 key actions to be delivered between 2024 and 2027.
In June 2025, the government announced that, from the start of the 2026 school year, every pupil whose household is on Universal Credit will be entitled to free school meals.
2025 has seen the publication of new Government Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) guidance.