[{"text_idx": "#000001", "text": "AboutPolitics and PolicyPeople and PlacesCultureVoices"}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Beth sy\u2019n digwydd yng Nghymru?"}, {"text_idx": "#000007", "text": "Yng Nghymru mae gennym gyfle gwych i wneud gwahaniaeth. Mae grw\u0302p rhwydwaith Prifysgolion a Cholegau Iach, wedi gwreiddio yng Nghanolfan Arbenigedd Rhanbarthol Cymru, yn sefydlu er mwyn denu\u2019r rhai sydd yn, neu wedi gysylltu gyda, y cymunedau niferus o brifysgolion a cholegau ar hyd a lled Cymru a thu hwnt er mwyn cydweithio i wneud gwahaniaeth i iechyd a chynaliadwyedd pob Cymru a\u2019r byd. Mae\u2019r grw\u0302p yma yn rhoi cyfle i adeiladu ar ddatblygiad amgylchedd iach blaenorol yng Nghymru. Sefydlwyd cynllun Cymreig ar gyfer Ysgolion Iach a chynlluniau cyn-ysgol nifer o flynyddoedd yn o\u0302l gan roi iechyd yng nghanol yr agenda ar gyfer plant yng Nghymru a gall dull tebyg ar gyfer prifysgolion a cholegau wneud yr un fath i bobl ifanc a phawb sydd ynghlwm a\u0302\u2019r amgylchedd dysgu."}, {"text_idx": "#000008", "text": "Datblygodd y cynllun Ysgolion Iach cyfres o safonau o amgylch amrediad eang o bynciau iechyd roedd ysgolion yng Nghymru yn cael eu mesur. Gwellodd y cynllun cyfleusterau a darpariaeth ar gyfer iechyd mewn ysgolion gan annog ysgolion i gymryd cyfrifoldeb dros gynnal a daprau iechyd i bawb oedd yn dysgu, gweithio, chwarae a byw yno. Dysgodd plant am sut i fyw yn iachach yn ogystal a\u0302 galluogi disgyblion a staff i gymryd rheolaeth o rai agweddau o amgylchedd yr ysgol oedd yn effeithio eu hiechyd. Mae\u2019r plant ysgol yno\u2019n troi yn bobl ifanc rw\u0302an gyda nifer ohonynt wedi mynd, neu yn mynd i astudio ymhellach yn addysg bellach neu uwch. Gyda nifer ohonynt mewn un neu fwy o\u2019r 23 prifysgol neu goleg yng Nghymru. Mae\u2019r sector addysg uwch yn fawr yng Nghymru \u2013 mae dros 275,000 o fyfyrwyr yn astudio yng Nghymru ar unrhyw adeg a dros 30,000 o bobl yn cael eu cyflogi un ai yn addysg bellach neu uwch. Mae hyn yn rhoi rheswm da dros ddatblygu\u2019r dull amgylchedd iach yn ein prifysgolion a\u2019n colegau."}, {"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "Fframwaith Prifysgolion a Cholegau Iach Cymru"}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "Yn dilyn y model o ysgolion iach, mae grw\u0302p o bobl ar draws sectorau prifysgol a cholegau, ynghyd a\u0302 gwneuthurwyr polisi o Llywodraeth Cymru ac arbenigwyr o Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru wedi dod at ei gilydd i ddatblygu Fframwaith Prifysgolion a Cholegau Iach Cymru. Mae\u2019r Fframwaith yn darparu safonau arfer da mewn chwe phwnc iechyd:"}, {"text_idx": "#000012", "text": "Mae chwe phrif egwyddor sy\u2019n tanseilio\u2019r safonau yma ac mae\u2019r rhain wedi cael eu cynnwys yn y fframwaith:"}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "Yn berthnasol i staff, myfyrwyr a\u2019r gymuned ehangach\nDefnydd o dystiolaeth, rhannu a dysgu"}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "Healthy Universities UK defines a healthy university or healthy college as being a place where a university or college is adopting a holistic, whole systems approach to health."}, {"text_idx": "#000016", "text": "This involves seeking to create a learning environment and shared institutional culture where health, well-being and the sustainability of communities are recognised as being core to success. Healthy institutions characteristically provide supportive and welcoming settings, increase the profile of health and sustainability and connect with, and contribute to, the health and well-being of the wider community."}, {"text_idx": "#000017", "text": "So what\u2019s happening in Wales?"}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "In Wales we have a better opportunity than most to make a difference. A Healthy Universities and Colleges network group, rooted in the Regional Centre of Expertise Cymru, is being established to attract those in, or connected with, the many university and college communities from around Wales and beyond to work together to make a difference to the health and sustainability of the people of Wales and the wider world. This group provides an opportunity to build on successful previous healthy settings development in Wales. The Welsh Healthy Schools and pre-school schemes established some years ago put health at the centre of the agenda for children in Wales and a similar approach for universities and colleges can do the same for young people and all those connected with the learning environment."}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "The Healthy Schools scheme developed a series of standards around a broad range of health topics against which schools in Wales were measured. The scheme not only improved the facilities and provision for health in schools but by encouraging schools to take responsibility for maintaining and providing for the health of all who learned, worked, played and lived there, it not only taught children about how to live healthier lives but it also enabled pupils and staff to take some control over aspects of the school environment which influenced their health. Those schoolchildren are becoming young people now and many of them have gone to, or will be going on to study in further and higher education. Many of them in one or more of Wales\u2019 23 universities and colleges. The further and higher education sector is large in Wales \u2013 there are more than 275,000 students studying in Wales at any one time and more than 30,000 people are directly employed in further and higher education here. This provides a compelling reason for the healthy settings approach to be further developed in our universities and colleges."}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "Following the healthy schools model, a group of people from across the university and college sectors as well as policy makers from Welsh Government and leading experts from Public Health Wales have come together and developed the Healthy Universities and Colleges Framework for Wales. The Framework provides best practice standards in six health topic areas:"}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "Mental and emotional health and well-being\nPersonal and sexual health and relationships"}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "There are six core principles which underpin these standards and are included within the framework:"}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "Applies to staff, students and wider community\nUse of evidence, sharing and learning"}, {"text_idx": "#000028", "text": "Also within Politics and Policy"}, {"text_idx": "#000031", "text": "Levelling the playing field: A case for retrofit over demolition"}]