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Toolkits & Guides
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Inside and out: a comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) assessment tool

The purpose of the Inside and Out assessment tool is: To review and assess the comprehensiveness and quality of sexuality education programmes both inside and outside school setting (especially programmes run by civil society) based on international evidence and standards of good practice; To gen

Policies & Strategies
Policies & Strategies | 2016

Promotion of healthy lifestyles in primary schools

This circular focuses on the importance of physical activity and healthy eating. It is acknowledged that mental and psychological well-being are a key part of healthy lifestyles. Schools support these through their work on anti-bullying and the SPHE curriculum.

Toolkits & Guides
Toolkits & Guides | 2013

Caffeine and energy drinks

This briefing paper sets out what schools need to know about caffeine use by children and young people. It includes case studies of two schools (primary and secondary) who found that caffeine and energy drinks use was a problem for their pupils and how they addressed this.

Programme Reports & Evaluations
Programme Reports & Evaluations | 2016

Report of the commission on ending childhood obesity

Childhood obesity undermines the physical, social and psychological well-being of children and is a known risk factor for adult obesity and noncommunicable diseases. There is an urgent need to act now to improve the health of this generation and the next.