Health
The NGA believes that education should take place in a physical and emotional environment that promotes health and well being. Governors have an important part to play in achieving this: food policy, personal, social and health education, sport and physical exercise are all aspects of the school curriculum that are the proper concern of the governing body.
However:
We believe that government policy regarding food, sport, health and exercise is often reactive and contradictory. Schools feel they are being loaded with responsibilities in isolation, when issues such as childhood obesity, smoking and diet call for broad mobilisation within society in general.
We believe that government policy towards sport in schools focuses too much on elite performance at the expense of everyday exercise. We believe that much more can and should be done, both inside and outside schools, to raise activity levels and improve the health of children.