Nursery World - Call for cabinet post to tackle child obesity

A cabinet minister for children should be appointed to oversee policy and strategy for child health and fitness across all departments, a cross-party group of MPS and peers has said.

The All Party Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood said that without a strategic and co-ordinated approach the UK would face a ‘devastating’ child obesity epidemic.

It makes a number of recommendations across age ranges and said that there needs to be a whole family approach to tackle the problem.

The APPG’s chair, former children’s TV presenter Baroness Floella Benjamin, said, ‘It is now widely acknowledged that the nation is in the grip of a child obesity epidemic. This report will help families and the professionals who support them to turn the tide and establish new and healthy patterns of living for all our children.’

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