Carrying out the audit
In order to devise an action plan, your school will need to consider its strengths and identify areas for development. The national audit tool (January 2007) 
578kb (Word, 577 KB) sets out the criteria for each of the four themes: personal, social and health education (PSHE), healthy eating, physical activity and emotional health and well-being (EHWB). The minimum evidence draws together all of the following key elements that need to be considered and which underpin all four core themes:
- leadership, management and managing change
- policy development, relevant to areas of focus
- curriculum planning and resourcing, including working with external agencies
- teaching and learning
- school culture and environment
- giving pupils a voice
- provision of pupils’ support services
- staff professional development needs, health and welfare
- partnerships with parents/carers and local communities
- assessing, recording and reporting pupils’ achievement.
Share the tool with representatives from your school community: staff (teaching and non-teaching), pupils, parents, governors, community professionals, and draw out what it is you already have in place in each of the 10 sections. Take a step back and acknowledge how much you actually do!
Once completed, the audit will clearly identify areas that would benefit from some attention. Focus on developing a realistic action plan that would serve to address this. Remember the whole-school approach - both the audit and action planning should be a joint venture and reflect the views of the wider school community.