Overview

The annual review is a tool to help schools show how they are maintaining the foundation of health and well-being which they have already achieved through National Healthy School Status (NHSS). It has also been designed to enable local, regional and national co-ordinators access information about this.

From now on, all schools which have already achieved NHSS must complete and share their responses to all sections of the tool on an annual basis, either to maintain their current Healthy School status, necessary to be part of the Healthy Schools enhancement model.

Schools still working towards achieving NHSS, should not be using this tool and should instead be working with the national audit.

The annual review has been developed from the criteria of NHSS across the four Healthy Schools themes and the elements of the whole school approach. It contains no new requirements for schools and schools are encouraged to use some of the information they have previously entered in the national audit to help complete the tool. They will self-validate against the annual review in the same way as the national audit.

How to create reports

Local programmes will support schools as they complete the annual review. The responses made by schools will also help inform reports at local, regional and national level.

Local programmes can use this took to find out information such as:

• which questions schools have responded to and which are blank
• which schools are ready to share responses and self-validate through the quality assurance system
• whether school policies have expired or are about to expire
• which external partners are working with schools.

Access to information

The information that schools enter on the annual review can only be accessed by:

• staff in school with login details for Healthy Schools
• the Healthy Schools Local Programme in the local authority or primary care trust.

Regional and national co-ordinators can access information but this will not be school specific.

Confidentiality of data

Files such as photographs/videos or quotes from children can be uploaded by schools and saved as part of evidence of achievement. It is a schools responsibility to ensure that it has copyright for this material and that it has gained permission to use it, for example from parents/carers.

Annual review summary

The annual review summary page shows an overview of progress for each of the nine sections of the annual review. For each annual review section a pie chart is displayed where:

1. The white segment is the percentage of questions for which no response has been provided.
2. The orange section is the percentage of questions for which a draft response has been provided.
3. The green segment is the percentage of questions for which a completed response has been provided.

Clicking on any section link will display the annual review section landing page for the selected section. This page is similar to the main annual review summary page but instead shows the status of each question in the selected section. For each question a pie chart is displayed where:

1. The white segment is the percentage of the question for which no response has been provided.
2. The orange section is the percentage of the question for which a draft response has been provided.
3. The green segment indicated that the question has been marked as complete.

Help with the annual review

If schools are having difficulty responding to the annual review, they are asked to contact their Local Programme Co-ordinator for help.

Technical support is also available from the Healthy Schools technical helpline on: 0845 601 7848 or via support@healthyschools.gov.uk.