Information Sharing
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Health promotion is a term used within the health service to describe the provision of information on healthier lifestyles and how to make the best use of health services. The intention is to enable people to make rational health choices and to ensure that people are aware of those factors that determine health in the community.
All state schools are required to have written home-school agreements, drawn up in consultation with parents. These are non-binding statements explaining the school’s aims and values, the responsibilities of both the school and parents, and what the school expects of its pupils. Parents will be invited to sign a parental declaration, indicating that they understand and accept the contents of the agreement.
This act came into force in full on 2nd October 2000 and incorporates into domestic law the European Convention on Human Rights. The Act makes it unlawful for any public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right supporting liberty and freedom from inhuman treatment.
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