Health
Education Trust is a UK registered charity, formed to promote the
development of health education for young people in the UK.
The Health Education Trust is dedicated to initiating and supporting
work with young people (children and teenagers, young adults, students,
pupils) to encourage the growth of healthy lifestyles.
HET is committed to facilitating research and development of effective solutions for healthier school food and drink vending, as part of a whole school, whole day approach to school catering services.
Best Practice Guidance Tool – Allergy and Vending
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National School Vending Conference Review
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Real Choice: HET’s healthful school vending scheme – click here for details
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INDICATES provides an insight into current school catering provision; highlights the current regulations; reflects on the roles and responsibilities of the key players; and provide access to vital facts, figures, statistics and case study material.
Managing Medicines in Schools addresses the issues surrounding children's medical needs in primary schools and how to deal with them.
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Best in Class is a scheme designed to recognise best practice across the whole school catering provision. The scheme will build into a ‘snapshot’ listing of schools who have achieved success in one or more areas of their school meals service, with demonstrable benefits to the school and its pupils. Through Best in Class we can share best practice nationwide, so that successful ideas can be adapted and adopted in other areas.
To see Best in Class Schools
To nominate a school for Best in Class.
School Nutrition Action Groups are school based alliances in which staff, pupils and caterers, supported by health and education professionals work together to review and expand the range of food and drink to increase the uptake of a healthier diet and ensure consistent messages from the curriculum and food service.
The Food for Life Partnership
HET has partnered with the Soil Association, the Focus on Food Campaign and Garden Organic for a 5 year Lottery funded initiative. The Food for Life Partnership works to transform school and community food culture across England and aims to reach out through schools to give communities access to seasonal, local and organic food, and access to the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food for themselves.
HET will provide professional expertise and guidance to support and enable flagship schools and communities to audit their local food culture and develop their whole school food policy and action plan.
There will be 180 schools in England who will become flagship schools and more than 3600 Food for Life Partnership Mark schools going for Gold by 2011.
To find out more, or express interest in becoming a flagship school click here
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Work experience on nutrition projects with the Health Education Trust
For more information on the work experience opportunities available with the HET, please click here to visit the HET page.
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New Vending Guide for Schools
HET has been working with the School Food Trust (SFT) to help them develop a new guide to setting up viable vending services that meet the Government’s new school food standards from September 2007. ‘A fresh look at vending in schools’ is available as a free download from the SFT website.
The new school food standards provide the opportunity to change the nature of vending provision in our schools. Some schools have already made great strides in transforming their vending services to only offer snacks and drinks that can make a positive nutritional contribution to pupil diets. This comprehensive guide builds on the experiences of these pioneering schools and vending operators, who, through a commitment to providing nutritionally sound catering services are benefiting their pupils, both nutritionally and educationally. We look forward to seeing a total transformation of vending in schools over the coming years.
To download your copy of the SFT vending guide visit:
www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk
For more information on vending in schools visit HET’s vending pages, click here.
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New ‘Water Cooler Guidance’ for Schools
HET has written and produced this free downloadable guidance for schools on the use of water coolers to help ensure that the highest standards possible prevail in the selection, provision, installation and maintenance of water coolers in schools.
In schools, ‘good hydration helps to reduce tiredness, irritability, and increases concentration. It contributes to a more settled and productive learning environment’. (House of Commons written answer by Ann Keen – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, DOH – 16/07/2007).
This guidance can be usefully adapted and applied to other public institutions such as leisure services, hospitals and prisons.
To download a free copy click here.
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