Department of Health documents

 

Healthy lives, brighter futures - The strategy for children and young people’s health

 
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Child weight management programme and training providers framework
 
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Commissioning weight management services for children and young people
 
Research into parental attitudes towards the routine measurement of children’s height and weight
 
Obesity guidance for healthy schools co-ordinators and their partners

 

Why your child's weight matters

Guidelines

 

Obesity: the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children - NICE

 
Management of obesity in children and young people
 
Storing up problems - Royal College of Physicians
 
Pharmacotherapy guidelines for obesity management in adults - National Obesity Forum
 
Approach to weight management in children and adolescents - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

General websites

 

SEPHO - Childhood Obesity

 
National Obesity Forum - Children
 
Obesity in Childhood - updated by J Reilly
 
There is a great resource on children & eating - including a peer advocacy 'body respect' project in schools available at:
 
Childhood obesity: a guide to diagnosis, management, and prevention

www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/ViewResource.aspx?resID=322882

 

This module provides the essentials on every day conditions on childhood obesity. An evidence based update.

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