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4: POLICY CONTEXTNational Policy ContextLet’s Make Scotland More Active – A Strategy for Physical Activity (2003)Let’s Make Scotland More Active sets out a variety of actions to encourage and enablechildren and adults to take part in regular physical activity.National Care Standards (2005)The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 was introduced to ensure a greaterstandard of care provision and requires certain care services to be regulated. Thoseproviding care services to children are regulated by the Care Commission against a setof National Care Standards. These set out the quality of care that care services shouldprovide.An Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services inScotland (2005)The Dental Action Plan saw the beginning of Childsmile. Childsmile is a nationalprogramme designed to improve the oral and general health of children in Scotland,and reduce inequalities, both in dental health and access to dental services.Nutritional Guidance for Early Years (2006)Nutritional Guidance for Early Years: food choices for children aged 1–5 years inearly education and childcare settings is a national guidance document whichprovides support to meet the standard outlined in National Care Standard 3.Although aimed at children in early years and the childcare setting, this documentcontains useful information and ideas for snacks that should be continued beyond theage of five years old.Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Act 2007The Scottish Government introduced legislation to help schools become healthpromoting establishments, which includes serving healthy food and drinks to pupils.The legislation ensures that food and drink served in school premises complies withnational nutritional standards. OSC services operating in school premises should adhereto this legislation.Equally Well Implementation Plan (2008)The Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities published the Equally WellImplementation Plan in December 2008 to ensure that improvements in health are seenacross the whole population and are shared more equally between rich and poor andacross both urban and rural settings. The plan brings local and national action togetheracross four key priority areas and calls on public sector resources to address healthinequalities in an upstream manner through early intervention and prevention.Achieving Our Potential - A framework to tackle poverty and income inequality inScotland (2008)This framework for tackling poverty and income inequality fits with other ScottishGovernment policies. The framework recognises that having the best possible start inlife, a good education, good health and enough money can all help make society moreequal. The framework aims, through a variety of policy documents and working with all4 Policy Context Nutriton and Oral Health