Health Education: Volume 94 Issue 4

Cannabis and Alcohol: Vices and Virtues

Adrian King

Compares past, present and possible future effects and merits/demeritsof using cannabis, and whether it leads to something even “harder” –like heroin. Shows that past and present…

Children Who Have No Breakfast

Val Box, Jackie Landman

Considers the importance of breakfast in relation to maintainingconcentration at school and optimum growth, as well as in protectingagainst coronary heart disease in the future…

The New Law on Sex Education

Sharon Kingman

Summarizes the main changes affecting how schools teach sex education,resulting from the implementation of the Education Act 1993. Describesthe partial nature of the parental…

A Positive Approach to Sex Education in the Primary School

Sandra Jowett

Gives an account of how one primary school set about developing andimplementing a sex education policy. Describes the processes ofconsultation, training and curriculum development…

Sex Education: One Comprehensive′s Experience

John Anthony, Sue Williams

Describes the development and organization of a sex education programmein a Cambridgeshire comprehensive school, from the perspectives of ateacher and a school nurse. Provides a…

Personal Safety and the Police

Paul Wotton

Describes the objectives of the Schools Involvement Programme of theMetropolitan Police Service and the range of services offered by schoolsinvolvement officers. Summarizes a…