About Ealing healthy schools programme

"We want all children and young people in Ealing to be healthy and achieve at school and in life. We believe that by providing opportunities for enhancing physical and emotional health & well-being in all children & young people’s settings we will improve long-term health, reduce health inequalities, increase social inclusion and raise achievement for all"

Maintaining your healthy schools status: Ealing Healthy Schools Whole School Audit

The Whole School Audit (word) is a tool to help your school maintain the foundation of health and well-being which you have already achieved through National Healthy School Status (NHSS). It is also designed to help you assess what you and your school have achieved, celebrate your successes and also identify the areas of work you need to develop.

The Whole School Audit is a streamlined tool that has been developed from a combination of the criteria of NHSS across the four Healthy Schools themes and the Annual Review tool. It will also help you check whether the Healthy Schools work you do in school is being embedded through the whole school approach. It contains no new requirements.

The information you entered in your original audit to gain NHSS or the Annual Review will help you complete the Whole School Audit – it can be copied across. You will self-validate using the audit tool in the same way as the national audit.

After completing the audit you will need to submit it to your Health Improvement Officer who will read your audit in detail. Every school that submits their audit will receive detailed verbal & written feedback to highlight areas of excellent practice that could be shared with other schools. It will also outline how the health improvement team can support you address the areas for development.

Schools who maintain their Healthy Schools programme will receive an Ealing ‘Maintaining Healthy Schools’ certificate in recognition of your commitment & hard work

Enhancing your healthy schools status:

Every ‘maintaining’ school will be invited to identify and respond to the health and well-being priorities of the children and young people in their school by working towards ‘enhancing’ their Healthy Schools programme.

Schools who analyse & interpret their HRBS data can choose to focus on two health and well-being priorities in order to ‘ enhance’ your Healthy Schools programme. Schools will devise and submit their own School Health Improvement Plan that will help them focus on improving two long-term outcomes for each priority.

Schools will receive the support of the Health Improvement team to achieve the outcomes as well as receive the Ealing ‘Enhancing Healthy Schools’ plaque in recognition of your continued dedication to addressing health needs in your school.

Useful documents

Ealing health improvement cycle for children and young people (word)