Nutritional standards for school lunches: a guide for implementation

This publication details the nutritional standards for school lunches, to which all grant-aided schools must adhere. As well as explaining why the nutritional standards have been introduced, it offers practical advice on how to implement them.

Nutritional standards for school lunches: a guide for implementation is also available in Irish, on request.

School food: the essential guide (and Irish translation)

School food: the essential guide contains a series of eight practical guidance booklets designed to help schools improve pupils' nutrition and implement healthier eating and drinking practices. 

School food: the essential guide contains a series of eight practical guidance booklets designed to help schools improve pupils' nutrition and implement healthier eating and drinking practices. The booklets provide advice and support for the key areas in which food, drinks and nutrition issues affects schools. Mini case studies support the advice given and, where appropriate, the booklets provide details of recommended further resources.

Individual booklets in the series are available as PDF files below:

Establishing a whole school food policy

This guide has been written to help your school develop, write and implement a whole school food policy. It is designed to be easy to follow and based firmly in the context of real school life.

This resource was originally developed and produced by the Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland as part of the School food: top marks programme and is now the responsibility of the Public Health Agency. It was jointly funded by the Department of Education and the Department of Heath, Social Services and Public Safety.

Sunbed use leads to skin cancer warning

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in Northern Ireland and accounts for more than one quarter of all individuals diagnosed with cancer. There are two main types of skin cancer - melanoma and non-melanoma - melanoma is the least common but is the most serious form. There has been a dramatic increase in cases over the years with malignant melanoma skin cancer cases nearly trebling in 25 years.¹

PHA issues statement on drinks promotions

Every summer we see an increase in bars, off licenses and supermarkets who offer promotions on alcohol. The most irresponsible promotions are those which encourage people to drink more and faster. Promotions like these, such as “Drink all you can for £20” and “Buy one get one free” encourage people to drink more alcohol in a shorter amount of time, which increases the risk to their health. It also means they are more likely to have accidents, more likely to be a victim (or perpetrator) of assault, and more likely to have unsafe sex.

Transmit: Health protection service bulletin. 2010: Issue 2

This edition of Transmit focuses on some of the issues and volume of work being handled by the health protection duty room since January 2010.

It features an outline of the arrangements for the team leading work on emergency preparedness and environmental hazards, an update – including the uptake rates – on the childhood vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases, the risks associated with exposure to bats and rabies, and new guidance that has been issued by the DHSSPS in relation to HIV infection and post-exposure prophylaxis, including sexual exposure.
 

This edition of Transmit focuses on some of the issues and volume of work being handled by the health protection duty room since January 2010. It features an outline of the arrangements for the team leading work on emergency preparedness and environmental hazards, an update – including the uptake rates – on the childhood vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases, the risks associated with exposure to bats and rabies, and new guidance that has been issued by the DHSSPS in relation to HIV infection and post-exposure prophylaxis, including sexual exposure.

PHA highlights Director of Public Health report in the western area

The Director of Public Health for Northern Ireland’s first annual report will be highlighted in the west of the province this Thursday 19 August 2010 at 12.00 noon at Gransha Park House, Londonderry. This significant report highlights the many public health challenges that affect people living in Northern Ireland. Dr Carolyn Harper, Director of Public Health leads the public health team that tackles this complex agenda, working with many statutory, community and voluntary partner organisations across health, local government, education, housing and other sectors.

CLEAR standards for community groups launched

New Service Standards and a Quality Assessment Framework for community and voluntary organisations who work in the fields of suicide prevention and mental health will be launched on Wednesday 18 August at 10.00 am in the Tara Centre in Omagh. The standards were developed by the CLEAR project, a partnership of community and voluntary sector agencies funded by the Public Health Agency and managed by Derry Healthy Cities.
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