All schools and partners will shortly be receiving our new publication Partnership Working in Buckinghamshire Healthy Schools.  To mark 10 years of National Healthy Schools and to prepare for the next stage of the National Healthy Schools Programme we have revised and re-formatted our Quality Assurance for partners pack.

This is still the previous pack of three documents:

• Section 1:  Quality Assurance for Partners' work with schools
• Section 2:  Good Practice Checklists for schools & outside agencies working with Buckinghamshire Healthy Schools
• Section 3:  Protocols for schools working with outside agencies to support and enrich the Whole School Curriculum

but we have combined them into one pamphlet for convenience and updated them.  Essentially the content remains the same although there are minor changes throughout the document.

We have also included a pro-forma for partners to list all the schools that they have worked with in the previous year.  We have alsways had the collection of this sort of data in our agreement; now that the new enhanced National Healthy Schools Programme will include work the school identifies from local data we will find this sort of information really useful in supporting the schools to identify these projects.

To refresh our processes, update our records and prepare for the new programme to be launched in the autumn term, we are asking all our partners to re-validate as Quality Assured partners.  The pro-formas included in the pamphlet can all be separately downloaded as Word documents below and also from the Buckinghamshire pages of the National Healthy Schools website www.healthyschools.gov.uk The Quality Assurance pamphlet can also be downloaded as a PDF.