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date	18/12/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Education: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on steps to improve health literacy for (a) primary school-aged children and (b) secondary school-aged children.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	203310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly discusses a range of issues, including health literacy in schools, with cabinet colleagues.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE), Health Education England, NHS England and Community Health and Learning Foundation, are working together to develop, test and implement a range of strategic and practical interventions towards improving health literacy.</p><p> </p><p>School nurses are specialist public health nurses who lead the Healthy Child Programme (5-19). They deliver evidence-based public health interventions both within and out of school settings.</p><p> </p><p>The Health Literacy toolkit has been produced with support from Public Health England and is designed to help school nurses improve the health literacy of children and young people. The Association for Young People’s Health AYPH toolkit, commissioned by PHE, can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youngpeopleshealth.org.uk/health-literacy" target="_blank">http://www.youngpeopleshealth.org.uk/health-literacy</a></p><p> </p><p>The ‘School aged years high impact area 6: seamless transition and preparation for adulthood’ provides robust evidence for school nurses to support young people preparing for adulthood, access to information and support, and knowledge of services to help keep them healthy. ‘School aged years high impact area 6: Seamless transition and preparation for adulthood’ can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/754809/school_aged_years_high_impact_area_6.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/754809/school_aged_years_high_impact_area_6.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/12/2018 13:31:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

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date	06/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Health Education: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve health literacy among children; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	15252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>Schools have a key role to play in teaching children about healthy lifestyles.</p><br /><p>The new national curriculum set the expectation that pupils are taught about the importance of leading healthy and active lives, across a variety of subjects. The new design and technology curriculum strengthens requirements for maintained schools to teach children about food, nutrition and healthy eating, and how to cook a repertoire of meals. Pupils in maintained primary schools should learn about healthy eating and a good, balanced diet. In maintained secondary schools, food education is now compulsory in years 7–9 for the first time. The new science curriculum makes young people aware of different types of diseases and the impact of lifestyle factors on the incidence of some diseases.</p><br /><p>Physical Education is a compulsory subject at all four key stages in the national curriculum in maintained schools. The programme of study makes clear that a high-quality PE curriculum should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically active in a way which supports their health and fitness.</p><br /><p>In addition, the Department is actively engaged in work across government to develop a national childhood obesity strategy.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/11/2015 17:19:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman