Scotland: SNP blames Westminster for school failings and child obesity
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  • Feb 2, 2022
School lunches could be inspected in new plans to tackle lockdown-fuelled childhood obesity
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  • Feb 1, 2022
LEYF launches external training course for early years chefs
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  • Jan 17, 2022
Help families to lose weight together to tackle childhood obesity crisis
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  • Dec 13, 2021
Report: Treating and preventing adolescent obesity
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Obesity Health
  • Dec 13, 2021
Childhood obesity increasing in under-fives after lockdown
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  • Dec 9, 2021
Scotland: Children shun outdoors for eight hours a day on screens
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Child obesity: Why has the situation got so bad?
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  • Nov 22, 2021
NHS launches specialist clinics amid spike in childhood obesity
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  • Nov 17, 2021
Increase in obesity rates among Reception pupils
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  • Nov 16, 2021
Biggest rise yet in obesity among young children
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  • Nov 16, 2021
One in four children clinically obese as rates see record increase in Covid pandemic
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  • Nov 16, 2021
Severely obese pre-schoolers to be helped by new network of specialist weight-loss clinics
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  • Nov 16, 2021
Schools urged to keep sports courts open to help drive down obesity rates
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  • Oct 10, 2021
How the government plans to tackle childhood obesity
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  • May 13, 2021
Student health is failing
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  • Apr 21, 2021
MPs call for review of ‘dangerous’ weighing of primary school children
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  • Apr 9, 2021
Childhood obesity: the impact of the pandemic
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  • Mar 31, 2021
Let's scrap SATs and focus on beating childhood obesity instead
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  • Mar 25, 2021
Modest, sustainable changes proven key to beating childhood obesity
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  • Mar 9, 2021
Poorer teens at substantially greater risk of obesity
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  • Dec 17, 2020
How gardening at school can tackle child obesity
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  • Nov 26, 2020
UK to ban junk food ads online to tackle child obesity
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  • Nov 11, 2020
Focus on the root causes of obesity says BPS in response to the latest child obesity figures
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  • Nov 2, 2020
Growing support for cycling on national curriculum
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  • Sep 28, 2020
Obesity crisis - should cycling be part of the school curriculum?
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  • Sep 27, 2020
Childhood obesity action plan ‘too slow’, says report
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  • Sep 9, 2020
Government ‘will miss 2030 target to halve childhood obesity’
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  • Sep 9, 2020
Unhealthy diets are ‘slow-motion disaster’
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  • Jul 29, 2020
Why lessons in healthy eating will never work
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  • Jul 28, 2020
Childhood obesity: Government bans junk food adverts aimed at young people
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  • Jul 27, 2020
Could restricting junk food advertising reduce obesity?
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  • Jul 27, 2020
Government launches new obesity strategy
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  • Jul 27, 2020
Concerns over growing childhood obesity crisis
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  • Jul 16, 2020
School closures will have 'devastating effects' on pupils, child health experts warn
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  • Jun 15, 2020
Coronavirus: School closures put pupils at obesity risk
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  • Jun 15, 2020
Fat-shaming teachers won't cure childhood obesity
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  • Jun 10, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Ditch school run to fight lockdown flab, says expert
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  • May 19, 2020
Universal free school meals winning in the fight against childhood obesity
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  • Mar 9, 2020
Free school dinners ‘led to fall in childhood obesity rates’
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  • Mar 8, 2020
Sadiq Khan calls for 'water-only' policy in schools to tackle obesity
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  • Mar 3, 2020
Primary schools urged to jog a Daily Mile to fight obesity
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  • Jan 28, 2020
Schools to receive Government cash to keep sports halls open in holidays to fight child obesity
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  • Jan 26, 2020
As childhood obesity numbers continue rising, what can parents and teachers do?
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Obesity
  • Jan 3, 2020
Detentions for pupils caught eating fast food outside school
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  • Dec 28, 2019
One-fifth of P1s 'at risk of being overweight or obese'
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Scotland Primary Health Obesity
  • Dec 10, 2019
The way to tackle the child obesity epidemic? Teach cooking in schools
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  • Nov 18, 2019
Can compulsory cycling education at primary school solve child obesity?
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  • Nov 13, 2019
Campaigners call for action on fast-food in deprived areas
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  • Nov 12, 2019
Government 'nowhere near' target of halving child obesity
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  • Oct 10, 2019
Over 1.3 million UK children expected to be obese in 2030
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Obesity Health
  • Oct 3, 2019
New childhood obesity figures ‘paint bleak picture’
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Obesity Health
  • Sep 24, 2019
Unicef to tackle child obesity and poverty in Scotland
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  • Sep 23, 2019
40% of primary leavers to be overweight within five years
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  • Sep 12, 2019
Mayor to consider plans to tackle child obesity
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  • Sep 5, 2019
Obesity: primary school tackles childhood obesity with diet of sport
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  • Jul 8, 2019
Labour accuses Government of moving at ‘snail’s pace’ on tackling childhood obesity
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Call for schools to scrap sugar from school lunches
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  • Jun 12, 2019
Obesity risk as third of pupils don't get enough sleep
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  • Jun 10, 2019
Lack of sleep putting children at risk of obesity
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  • Jun 10, 2019
Ofsted: Schools made no difference to obesity problem
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  • Jun 3, 2019
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds do less vigorous physical activity
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  • May 31, 2019
Poorer kids do the least exercise and ‘at greater risk of being obese’, study says
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  • May 28, 2019
Chef says ban on takeaways near schools is 'inherently racist'
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  • May 23, 2019
Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests
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  • May 21, 2019
Pre-school citywide strategy leads to fall in obesity rates
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  • May 3, 2019
Schools sports facilities may be forced to open in summer to help fight child obesity
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  • May 2, 2019
Goodbye, Mr Chips? The new school dinners
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School meals Health Wellness Obesity
  • Apr 12, 2019
Food campaigners back long-awaited healthy schools rating scheme
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Health Wellness Obesity Rankings
  • Mar 21, 2019
Call for DfE to implement healthy schools rating scheme
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  • Mar 20, 2019
The impact of restricting TV advertising of junk food would depend on how firms respond
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  • Mar 18, 2019
Wales faces child obesity crisis, says assembly committee
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  • Mar 7, 2019
Delivery apps thwart child obesity efforts
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  • Jan 29, 2019
When the hunger of the game outweighs everything else
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Our nation’s children are simply not as healthy they could be | Jonathan Ashworth
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Pupils will count sugar cubes in maths to cut obesity
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  • Jan 21, 2019
Physical activity programmes in schools aren’t working – here’s why
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  • Jan 17, 2019
The value of recognising the school meal as a site for developing learning opportunities
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  • Jan 14, 2019
Sugar education to be part of core school subjects
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  • Jan 14, 2019
Restricting promotions of food linked to childhood obesity: public asked views
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  • Jan 12, 2019
Change4Life teaches children how to cut sugar
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Phonics resources to tackle childhood obesity
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  • Jan 8, 2019
Daily Mile gets £1.5m to boost fitness in English primary schools
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Fitness Health Obesity
  • Dec 17, 2018
Schools alone cannot tackle knife crime and obesity, says Ofsted chief
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Amanda Spielman Ofsted Obesity Knife crime Parents
  • Dec 2, 2018
Schools can’t be substitute parents, Ofsted chief warns
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  • Dec 2, 2018
Sugar tax raises £154 million in six months after the Government slapped a 24p-a-litre charge on soft drinks
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  • Nov 21, 2018
Sugar tax revenue helps tackle childhood obesity
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  • Nov 20, 2018
Ireland: Ban vending machines and fast food to tackle child obesity
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  • Nov 15, 2018
Insufficient sleep in children associated with poor diet, obesity and more screen time
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Sleep Obesity Health Wellness
  • Nov 13, 2018
Ireland: Seven out of ten back junk food advertising ban
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  • Nov 8, 2018
Study finds link between air pollution and childhood obesity
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  • Nov 6, 2018
3 percent of children hit daily activity target
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  • Oct 31, 2018
Children 'should be weighed up to age 18', report says
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  • Oct 15, 2018
Pizzas and other snacks could shrink in bid to cut childhood obesity
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Public Health England Obesity Health Wellness
  • Oct 12, 2018
Record numbers of 11-year-olds are now classed as severely obese
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Obesity Health Wellness
  • Oct 12, 2018
Record high levels of severe obesity found in year 6 children
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Public Health England Obesity Health Wellness
  • Oct 11, 2018
Childhood obesity in primary schools is a growing problem
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Obesity Health Wellness Primary
  • Oct 11, 2018
Record number of children aged 10 and 11 'severely obese'
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Obesity NCMP
  • Oct 11, 2018
Record proportion of Year 6 pupils severely obese
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  • Oct 11, 2018
Teach children obesity not inevitable - medics
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Obesity Health Wellness
  • Oct 11, 2018
Bake-off judge: Schools must teach love of healthy food
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Health Food education Prue Leith Obesity
  • Oct 8, 2018
Child obesity, is it time to ask all students to walk to their school
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  • Oct 5, 2018
Lowestoft school introduces pedal machines under desks
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  • Oct 4, 2018
Children made to cycle at their desks to combat obesity
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  • Oct 3, 2018
School installs pedals under pupils' desks to help obese children lose weight
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  • Oct 3, 2018
It's not up to teachers to tell parents their child is overweight
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Obesity
  • Sep 30, 2018
Councils set to 'trailblaze' projects to tackle child obesity
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Obesity Health Wellness
  • Sep 26, 2018
Scotland: Measures to tackle obesity need more bite | Melanie Reid
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Obesity Health
  • Sep 26, 2018
Funding cut in fight against child obesity
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Funding Obesity Health Wellness Primary
  • Sep 21, 2018
Scotland: Squats and sit-ups help fat children to avoid obesity
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Strength-based exercises could help child obesity fight, study finds
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Pupils run to fat as PE lessons cut by 10%
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  • Sep 16, 2018
End all-week school puddings, says charity
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Energy drink makers accused of bending rules to target children
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Energy drinks Health Obesity Age restrictions
  • Aug 31, 2018
Ireland: Ban children from buying energy drinks, say doctors
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Energy drinks Age restrictions Health Obesity
  • Aug 31, 2018
Major step forward in NASUWT campaign to protect children from energy drink harms
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Energy drinks Health Obesity
  • Aug 30, 2018
Government to ban sale of energy drinks to children
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  • Aug 30, 2018
'Our young, talented pupils are addicted to energy drinks'
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Energy drinks Health Obesity Age restrictions
  • Aug 30, 2018
Will there be an energy drink ban in the UK and how old do you need to be to buy Red Bull and Monster?
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Energy drink ban plan ‘long overdue’
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Public asked for views on banning energy drink sales to children
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Talks to ban sale of energy drinks to children
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Children in England to be banned from buying energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster amid health concerns
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Children banned from buying caffeine-laden energy drinks
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Energy drinks Obesity Health
  • Aug 30, 2018
Severe obesity at its highest-ever rate in Year 6 children
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Obesity
  • Jul 24, 2018
Record numbers are classed as 'severely obese' by the age of 11 as figure increases by 28 per cent in a decade
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Primary Obesity Health
  • Jul 24, 2018
Record number of severely obese children
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Primary Obesity Disadvantaged pupils Health
  • Jul 24, 2018
One child in every 25 in final year of primary school is acutely obese
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Primary Obesity Disadvantaged pupils Health
  • Jul 24, 2018
Childhood obesity hits record level
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Obesity Health Primary
  • Jul 24, 2018
Research round-up (23 July 2018)
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Headteachers Funding Academies Obesity Neglect Disadvantaged pupils Assessments Bullying Pupil outcomes
  • Jul 23, 2018
Nanny state to teach pupils how to avoid biscuits to tackle rising childhood obesity
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  • Jul 19, 2018
Ofsted's report on obesity slammed for ignoring experts
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Amanda Spielman Ofsted Obesity
  • Jul 18, 2018
Ofsted report sparks obesity row
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  • Jul 18, 2018
Obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools
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  • Jul 18, 2018
Schools not ‘silver bullet’ to tackling childhood obesity
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  • Jul 18, 2018
Schools should stop telling parents how to raise their children, Ofsted report says 
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  • Jul 18, 2018
Schools alone cannot fix childhood obesity, says Ofsted boss
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  • Jul 18, 2018
Schools alone cannot solve childhood obesity crisis, Ofsted warns
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  • Jul 18, 2018
Ofsted says schools can’t fix childhood obesity, but advisory panel members disagree
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  • Jul 18, 2018
The Daily Mile is no magic bullet
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Daily mile Obesity Exercise
  • Jul 15, 2018
Ireland: Remove vending machines from schools to cut child obesity, ministers told
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Health Wellness Obesity Nutrition
  • Jul 12, 2018
Daily roundup 4 July: Funding warning, advertising ban, and murder probe
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Funding Vulnerable Obesity Health Wellness
  • Jul 4, 2018
Teenagers’ weight to be monitored in Scotland
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Obesity
  • Jul 3, 2018
Fat lot of good: council breaches its ban on takeaways near schools
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Obesity Fast food
  • Jul 2, 2018
Daily roundup 29 June: Fast food, mental health, and benefits
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  • Jun 29, 2018
Daily roundup 25 June: Energy drinks, psychotherapy, and gangs
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  • Jun 25, 2018
Written Statement on childhood obesity - a plan for action, chapter 2
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Obesity Health
  • Jun 25, 2018
Jamie Oliver hails ban on energy drinks as government brings in plans to cut childhood obesity
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Obesity
  • Jun 24, 2018
Government strengthens Childhood Obesity Plan
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Obesity
  • Jun 24, 2018
Primary school kids to be encouraged by teachers to run a mile each day
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Primary schools Obesity
  • Jun 23, 2018
New centre to tackle obesity launched in Leeds
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Obesity Research Health
  • Jun 20, 2018
Scotland: Pre-schoolers eat a million sweets a week
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Early years Health Nutrition Obesity Wellness
  • Jun 20, 2018
Call for junk food ads to be banned from on-demand services
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Obesity Food education
  • Jun 19, 2018
Hands off the jam roly-poly: why banning puddings in school is a bad idea
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Food education School meals Obesity
  • Jun 18, 2018
Children in England consume more than a year’s worth of sugar in 6 months
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Health Wellness Nutrition Obesity
  • Jun 15, 2018
Children consume more than a year’s worth of sugar in 6 months
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Health Wellness Nutrition Obesity
  • Jun 15, 2018
Study shows benefits of after-school programme promoting healthy lifestyles
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USA Obesity Health Lifestyle Best Evidence in Brief
  • Jun 12, 2018
Pizza, cake and chicken nuggets: schools struggle to fight obesity in Scotland
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  • Jun 9, 2018
Experts slam Scotland's cake and chips school dinners
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Scotland School meals Obesity
  • Jun 8, 2018
Schools cannot be expected to solve the child obesity crisis, Ofsted chief to say
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Obesity Health Ofsted
  • Jun 5, 2018
Daily roundup 5 June: Gypsy communities, terror conviction, and smoothies
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Funding Scotland Nutrition School meals Obesity
  • Jun 5, 2018
Fruit juice to be axed in school meals overhaul
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  • Jun 5, 2018
Calls for schools to ban fruit juice
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  • Jun 5, 2018
Scotland: school meal smoothie ban in obesity fight
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School meals Obesity Scotland
  • Jun 4, 2018
Scotland: Fight obesity by ditching smoothies, schools told
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  • Jun 4, 2018
Children exposed to TV junk food adverts despite ban
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IFS Obesity
  • May 31, 2018
Direct link to the government's report examining childhood obesity
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Obesity Reports
  • May 30, 2018
22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school
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Obesity LGA Primary schools
  • May 30, 2018
MPs demand tougher government action on child obesity
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Primary school Obesity
  • May 30, 2018
Call for powers to limit junk food advertising near schools
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Obesity Health Wellness
  • May 30, 2018
Ireland: Make home economics mandatory to tackle child obesity, teachers say
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Ireland Home economics Health Nutrition Wellness Obesity Curriculum
  • May 30, 2018
Daily roundup 29 May: Child obesity, gender, and missing refugees
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Obesity Health Wellness Nutrition Primary Gender identity Child refugees
  • May 29, 2018
More than 20,000 Year 6 pupils 'severely obese'
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Health Wellness Nutrition Obesity Primary
  • May 29, 2018
Tens of thousands of children become severely obese in primary school, figures show
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Health Nutrition Wellness Obesity Primary
  • May 29, 2018
Tenfold rise in primary pupil obesity
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Health Wellness Nutrition Obesity Primary
  • May 29, 2018
How the Daily Mile scheme at our schools could help to tackle obesity and get kids running
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Obesity PE
  • May 28, 2018
Daily roundup 23 May: Sugar reduction, grammar schools, and peer support
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Grammar schools Health Wellness Obesity State schools Social mobility
  • May 23, 2018
Study finds boys’ fitness has declined over past 20 years
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Health Gender gap Boys Physical activity Obesity
  • May 23, 2018
Scotland: Use mealtimes to combat obesity, schools urged
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Scotland Obesity Nutrition School meals Health
  • May 21, 2018
Daily roundup 15 May: Sure Start, obesity, and mental health checkups
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Sure Start Obesity Wellness Health Mental health
  • May 15, 2018
Scotland: Sturgeon pledges to halve childhood obesity by 2030
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Obesity Health Wellness
  • May 15, 2018
Weighing pupils cuts obesity in Manchester trial
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Obesity Health Wellness Primary
  • May 8, 2018
Fat-shaming children at school is no way to fight obesity | Kate Leaver
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Obesity Health Wellness
  • May 4, 2018
Schools could be forced to 'weigh and measure' kids – and would be monitored by Ofsted Schools in England would be assessed by Ofsted in order to monitor progress
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Ofsted Obesity Health Wellness
  • May 3, 2018
Schools could be forced to weigh pupils for Ofsted obesity checks
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Ofsted Obesity Primary Secondary Health Wellness
  • May 3, 2018
Daily roundup 1 May: Scottish alcohol laws, Staffordshire cuts, childhood obesity
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Obesity Health Wellness School nurses
  • May 1, 2018
Ofsted should inspect schools meals - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
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School meals Ofsted Inspections Obesity Health Nutrition
  • May 1, 2018
Leeds Beckett academic invited to help shape the way government tackles childhood obesity
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Obesity Academics Health Nutrition
  • Apr 30, 2018
'Weighing pupils in school isn't the way to improve children's health'
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Health Obesity School meals Wellness
  • Apr 30, 2018
Daily roundup 26 April: Staffing pressures, obesity, and Barnardo's appointment
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Obesity Health Wellness
  • Apr 26, 2018
PM told to stop schools flogging off playing fields to help fight obesity
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Playing fields Obesity Physical activity Health
  • Apr 26, 2018
Would banning fast-food outlets near schools help tackle childhood obesity?
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Obesity Health Nutrition Wellness
  • Apr 25, 2018
Lack of sleep leads to obesity in children and adolescents
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Sleep Obesity Health
  • Apr 17, 2018
Lack of sleep blamed for child obesity
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Sleep Obesity Health Attainment
  • Apr 17, 2018
Quarter of children in north Wales overweight or obese
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Health Obesity Primary Secondary
  • Apr 5, 2018
Children from lower social classes up to 5kg heavier than their more advantaged peers, new study finds
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Disadvantaged pupils Health Wellness Obesity
  • Mar 21, 2018
Good motor skills may enhance reading skills in obese children
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Reading Obesity Motor skills Performance
  • Mar 20, 2018
Daily roundup 19 March: Brexit, tube attack, and obesity
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Brexit Obesity Health Wellness Wales
  • Mar 19, 2018
Coca-Cola ends school trips to its factories, following concerns about children's health
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Obesity
  • Mar 4, 2018
Schools should work with health experts to combat obesity, report says
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Obesity Wellbeing
  • Feb 27, 2018
School health drives can boost pupil performance
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Pupil performance Health Wellness Obesity
  • Feb 26, 2018
Can schools help prevent childhood obesity?
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Obesity Primary schools Health Best Evidence in Brief
  • Feb 20, 2018
Children as young as two among thousands battling obesity
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Scotland Obesity Health Wellness Nutrition
  • Feb 16, 2018
Scotland: National chef’s school recipe to counter obesity
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School meals Nutrition Health Wellness Obesity
  • Feb 15, 2018
Daily roundup 8 February: Obesity, maternity leave, and misconduct
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Obesity Physical activity Health Nutrition Wellness
  • Feb 8, 2018
Anti-obesity programmes in primary schools 'don't work'
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Obesity Primary schools Nutrition Health Wellness Physical activity
  • Feb 8, 2018
Anti-obesity programmes in schools unlikely to halt child obesity epidemic
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Obesity Health Wellness Physical activity
  • Feb 8, 2018
Schools are not the answer to childhood obesity epidemic, study shows
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Obesity Health Wellness Physical activity Primary schools Nutrition
  • Feb 8, 2018
School diet and exercise regime failed to reduce pupils’ obesity
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Exercise Physical activity Primary Nutrition Obesity Health Wellness
  • Feb 8, 2018
Nearly half of primary children overweight in parts of the country
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Primary Obesity Health Wellness
  • Jan 31, 2018
Number of fast-food shops close to schools rises by two-thirds
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Fast food Health Nutrition Obesity Wellness
  • Jan 29, 2018
Huge rise in fast food shops a short walk from schools
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Fast food Primary schools Secondary schools Obesity Nutrition Health Wellness
  • Jan 29, 2018
Least fit primary pupils from 20 years ago would be fittest today
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Obesity Health Wellness Physical activity
  • Jan 22, 2018
Least fit children 20 years ago would be among fittest today, says study
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Obesity Wellness Health Outdoors
  • Jan 22, 2018
Daily roundup 18 January: Gang violence, Bradley brutality comments, and child refugees
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Child refugees Social work Obesity Health Wellness
  • Jan 18, 2018
Daily roundup 8 January: Literacy, acid, and obesity
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Literacy Obesity Health Wellness Reading Funding
  • Jan 8, 2018
New guidance recommends limit of two 100 calorie snacks for children
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Health Wellness PHE Public Health England Obesity Nutrition
  • Jan 8, 2018
Childhood obesity campaign targets 'unhealthy snacking'
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Health Wellness Obesity PHE Public Health England
  • Jan 2, 2018
PHE launches Change4Life campaign around children’s snacking
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Health Wellness PHE Public Health England Obesity
  • Jan 2, 2018
Limit children's snacks to 100 calories, health body says
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Health Wellbeing Nutrition Obesity PHE Public Health England
  • Jan 2, 2018
Parents urged to count calories in children’s snacks
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Health Obesity Nutrition
  • Jan 2, 2018
Leader comment: Let’s build a sporting nation
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Scotland Sports Physical activity Obesity Health Wellness
  • Dec 13, 2017
Scotland: ‘Scandalous’ rise in child obesity levels
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Scotland Obesity Health Wellness Primary
  • Dec 13, 2017
Daily roundup 7 December: Legal challenge, Grenfell Tower, and child obesity
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National pupil database Obesity Health Wellness School census Homelessness Primary Secondary
  • Dec 7, 2017
Now one in three British teenagers is already overweight
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Health Wellness Obesity Secondary
  • Dec 7, 2017
A fifth of children are obese by 14
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Obesity Wellness Health Primary Secondary
  • Dec 7, 2017
Obesity crisis: More than one in three British teenagers now overweight
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Obesity Health Wellness Secondary
  • Dec 7, 2017
Pru Leith calls for ban on sweet shops near schools
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Scotland Health Wellness Primary schools Secondary schools Obesity
  • Dec 4, 2017
Plans to stop takeaways opening near schools to cut childhood obesity
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Obesity Health Wellness Nutrition Primary schools Secondary schools
  • Dec 1, 2017
Daily roundup 23 November: the Budget, social media and child obesity
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Budget Funding Social media Obesity Health Wellness Maths Knife crimes Teachers Safety Safeguarding
  • Nov 23, 2017
Daily roundup 20 November: Children in Need, child obesity, and RSE
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Obesity Health Wellness Sex education Pornography
  • Nov 20, 2017
Leeds Beckett academic backs change in policy around child food insecurity
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Disadvantaged pupils Obesity Health Wellness Free school meals
  • Nov 17, 2017
Study takes pictures of packed lunches to tackle obesity
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Primary schools Packed lunches Obesity
  • Nov 4, 2017
APPG calls for Child Obesity Strategy rethink
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APPG Obesity Government
  • Oct 31, 2017
Daily roundup 20 October: Smacking, obesity and child bereavement
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CYPN Obesity Health Wellness
  • Oct 20, 2017
More children are officially obese at the start of primary school
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TES Health Wellness Obesity Primary schools
  • Oct 19, 2017
Somerset school uses standing desks to beat obesity
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Mail Schools Health Obesity
  • Sep 27, 2017
Study finds costly anti-obesity initiatives are 'useless'
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Obesity Health
  • Sep 3, 2017
Daily roundup 30 June: Junk food, social media, and emissions
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CYPN Social media Pollution Obesity Health Wellness Resilience Mental health Wellbeing
  • Jun 30, 2017
It would be wrong to scrap free school lunches for infants
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Times Free school meals UIFSM Politics Primary schools Disadvantaged pupils Health Obesity Free breakfasts
  • Jun 2, 2017
NFU Scotland calls for expansion of school milk scheme
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Scotsman Scotland Milk scheme Funding Health Obesity Wellbeing
  • May 23, 2017
New campaign to get Scottish children walking to school as obesity levels soar
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Herald Scotland Scotland Obesity
  • May 21, 2017
Daily roundup 19 May: Free school meals, Instagram, and baby deaths probe
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CYPN Free school meals Social media Mental health Health Wellness Obesity
  • May 19, 2017
Jamie Oliver: Axing free school meals a disgrace
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BBC Free school meals Funding Breakfast clubs Primary schools Health Wellness Obesity
  • May 18, 2017
Put nice smelling soap in changing rooms to encourage girls into sport, woman's FA chief says
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Telegraph Gender inequality Sports Physical activity Primary schools PE Obesity Health Wellness
  • May 12, 2017
Labour announces £1.25bn plan to boost child health
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CYPN Health Wellbeing Politics Obesity Mental health Wellness Funding Primary schools Secondary schools Poverty
  • May 8, 2017
Regular bedtimes stop children from becoming overweight, study finds
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Telegraph Health Wellbeing Obesity Behaviour Nurseries Early years Childcare Primary schools Secondary schools
  • Apr 24, 2017
Obesity campaigners call for more salads and fewer puddings in school
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BBC School meals Obesity Health Wellness Scotland
  • Apr 20, 2017
Leader comment: School meal offerings still not serving their purpose
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Scotsman Scotland School meals Health Wellness Obesity
  • Apr 19, 2017
‘Cultural step change’ called for over Scottish school meals
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Scotsman Scotland School meals Obesity Health Wellness
  • Apr 19, 2017
Nearly five hundred playgrounds will have closed by 2019
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Nursery World Physical activity Playgrounds Closures Obesity Wellness
  • Apr 13, 2017
MSP warns of obesity risk as pupils lose out on nutrition lessons
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Scotsman Scotland Health Wellbeing Obesity Home economics Teachers
  • Apr 13, 2017
Can a new way of teaching children about food make all the difference?
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Times Primary schools Obesity
  • Apr 2, 2017
Government missing opportunities to tackle childhood obesity, say MPs
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Nursery World Health Wellbeing Obesity Sugar tax Wellness
  • Mar 27, 2017
National school exercise scheme launched in bid to tackle childhood obesity 
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Telegraph Health Wellbeing Obesity DfE Sports PE
  • Jan 31, 2017
Junk food advertising ban aims to tackle childhood obesity
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Scotsman Obesity
  • Dec 8, 2016
Health alert as more than 1.6m pupils in a decade start secondary school overweight
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Schools Secondary schools Obesity TES Wellbeing
  • Oct 11, 2016
Decade of ‘appalling failure’ on obesity as 80,000 children enter P1 overweight
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Schools Wellbeing Obesity Scotland Times
  • Oct 11, 2016
Shock figures show one in 10 five-year-olds with weight problem
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Schools Obesity Scotland Express
  • Oct 11, 2016
One in 10 Primary one pupils 'overweight or obese'
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BBC Primary schools Obesity Scotland
  • Oct 11, 2016
Health alert as new report reveals 83,000 children started primary school overweight in last decade
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Herald Scotland Scotland Obesity Primary schools
  • Oct 11, 2016
Scotland’s obesity crisis: 8,000 children starting school overweight
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Scotsman Schools Obesity Scotland
  • Oct 11, 2016