health | Schools Week

It’s time to unite schools and health services … and here’s how

Our Schools and Health Framework lays the foundations for partnership working, say Dawn Haywood and Claire Gething

How schools are cutting through the fog on vaping

Some secondary schools resort to exclusions and toilet bans for pupils caught vaping on the premises

Schools left to decide on turning away pupils with Covid symptoms

Unions say schools are in an ‘impossible position’ as Covid requirements ease, with fears of conflict with parents

Vaccines to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds ‘within weeks’

School leaders have welcomed the government’s plan to make vaccines available to 16- and 17-year-olds across England within “a short number of weeks”. The rollout has now been approved for over-16s by the government’s joint committee on vaccination and immunisation (JCVI), but it stopped short of recommending jabs for younger children. Professor Wei Shen Lim, […]

School playing field sales hit 3-year high as Johnson pledges £50m football pitch investment

Sales of school playing fields hit a three-year high last year, it has emerged, on the same day Boris Johnson pledged tens of millions for new football pitches across England. The prime minister used a major speech on his “levelling up” agenda to announce £50 million in government investment in football pitches. It will ensure […]