The long-awaited ‘healthy schools rating scheme’ for primary schools is to launch this year, the Department for Education has confirmed.
Speaking at the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum’s seminar on childhood obesity earlier this month, the assistant director of the Healthy Pupils Unit at the DfE, Andrew Hudson, revealed the rating scheme – which was originally slated to be rolled out in primary schools in September 2017 – will come into effect this year.
The voluntary scheme, which was announced in the Government’s child obesity plan, is to help primary schools recognise and encourage their contribution to preventing obesity by helping children to eat better and move more.
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