National and Local Targets

To reinforce the government’s commitment to Healthy Schools work and the important role the government see the programme playing in contributing to a raft of national and local priorities, two national targets have been set. They are:

• half of all schools will be Healthy Schools by December 2006 and
• all schools working towards being Healthy Schools by December 2009.

Kent has also exercised local flexibility within its Local Area Agreement (LAA) and set a specific engaged target for schools.
Assumed within these national targets is the notion that local schemes will prioritise schools serving more socially deprived populations as defined by schools with 20% or more Free School Meal Eligibility (FSME).
The key headline targets for Kent are as follows although there are a number of other related local priorities within the LAA which underpin these.

Kent Local Area Agreement Targets:

• all schools with 20%+ Free School Meal Eligibility (FSME) are engaged in the Healthy Schools process by March 2006
• 50% of all schools to be engaged in becoming Health Schools by 31st December 2006, with the rest working towards Healthy Schools accreditation by March 2009.

To see data on the number of schools involved in the programme, please open the following document: Kent Programme Progress Monitoring