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.
This document sets out the equality impact assessment that addresses the potential impact of proposed changes to the RSHE statutory guidance on groups with protected characteristics who might be impacted by the proposed changes.
The aim of the study was to evaluate a programme that provides mental health support into local education settings.
This Schools4Health policy brief explores how the Health Promoting School (HPS) approach can help address existing disparities and build stronger, fairer education systems.
The Framework is intended to support schools, including pupil referral units (PRUs) and education settings in reviewing their own well-being landscape and in developing plans to address their weaknesses and build on their strengths.
We conducted an audit of secondary schools in southwest England to determine if/how they mention weight-related bullying in their policies, and whether this differs by school-level factors.