Laura England

The Flintshire Healthy Schools Scheme sits within Education and Youth and supports all schools across the Local Authority to achieve a whole school approach to promoting health and wellbeing. Every school in Flintshire has a designated Healthy Schools Officer, who directly supports coordinators in each school to actively promote and embed key health and wellbeing topics into the school community. Schools progress through the scheme by creating action plans, providing evidence and completing accreditations at the end of each phase. Schools then continue their progression by achieving the National Quality Award (NQA).

The NQA is a prestigious, independently assessed award, celebrating a school’s commitment to health and wellbeing of their pupils, staff and whole school community.

The Healthy and Sustainable Pre-school Scheme has been developed as an extension of the Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes (WNHSS) and the criteria have clear parallels with the WNHSS National Quality Award.

The Healthy and Sustainable Pre-school Scheme is a national accreditation scheme which acknowledges pre-school settings as contributors to children’s health and well-being. Settings who embrace Flintshire’s Healthy and Sustainable Pre-School Scheme will be accredited and recognised for their endeavours in promoting physical, mental, social and emotional health.