He is writing to all school boards and head teachers in Scotland to reassure them that safeguards will be put in place "to ensure children continue to receive sensitive and appropriate teaching on personal issues".
These and other players in football and basketball have a need for, and should receive especially high standards of nutritional analysis and procedural protections from institutions with hospitals and medical schools and whole departments teaching health.
Under these provisions, which were passed in March 2010 and were originally due to be implemented in 2012, doctors andteaching hospitals will be required to report the payments that they receive from pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, with the stated goal being to shed light on the financial relationships between physicians and the industry.
These teachers volunteered to have their classes videotaped and their lessons scored by experts, to have their students evaluate their teaching, to fill out surveys about the support they receiveand to be assessed on their content knowledge.