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Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000
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[F12ADuties in relation to promotion of healthS
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(1)The Scottish Ministers must endeavour to ensure that—
(a)schools managed by education authorities,
(b)grant-aided schools, and
(c)hostels provided and maintained by education authorities for pupils,
are health-promoting.
(2)An education authority must endeavour to ensure that—
(a)schools managed by them, and
(b)hostels provided and maintained by them for pupils,
are health-promoting.
(3)The managers of a grant-aided school must endeavour to ensure that the school is health-promoting.
(4)In carrying out the duty imposed by subsection (2) or (3), an education authority or, as the case may be, the managers of a grant-aided school must have regard to any guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this section.
[F2(4A)Each education authority must prepare and publish each year a statement (an “annual statement”) setting out the ways in which the authority proposes to carry out the duty imposed by subsection (2) during the relevant period.
(4B)As soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each relevant period, each education authority must prepare and publish a report setting out the ways in which the authority has carried out the duty imposed by subsection (2) during the relevant period.
(4C)In subsections (4A) and (4B), “relevant period”, in relation to an annual statement, means the period of 12 months beginning with the day after the day on which the annual statement is published.]
(5)In this section, a school or hostel is “health-promoting” if it provides (whether on its own or in conjunction with Health Boards, parents or any other person)—
(a)activities, and
(b)an environment and facilities,
which promote the physical, social, mental and emotional health and well-being of pupils in attendance at the school or residing in the hostel.]
Textual Amendments
F12A and cross-heading inserted (3.1.2008) by Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 15), ss. 1, 11(2); S.S.I. 2007/372, art. 2(b)
F2S. 2A(4A)-(4C) inserted (1.8.2017) by Education (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 8), ss. 5, 33(2); S.S.I. 2017/164, reg. 2, sch.
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