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Boris Johnson's food tsar calls for sugar and salt tax to fund free school meal expansion

Thursday, July 15, 2021

| Nursery World

Henry Dimbleby is urging ministers to introduce a new tax on sugar and salt to improve the nation's health, and fund the expansion of free school meals for an extra 1.1 million children.

MPs back sugar tax to fight obesity

News

Monday, November 30, 2015

| Nursery World

A 20 per cent tax on sugary drinks should be brought in to help fight childhood obesity, MPs say.

APPG calls for Child Obesity Strategy rethink

News

Monday, October 30, 2017

| Nursery World

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on a Fit and Healthy Childhood has demanded the Government rethink the role of physical activity in its Child Obesity Strategy.

Editor’s view - Getting a move on

Opinion

Monday, August 6, 2018

| Nursery World

With levels of childhood obesity in crisis, everyone must take swift action to tackle poor diets and lack of physical exercise

Pressure mounts on Cameron over fizzy drinks tax

News

Friday, January 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Speculation is growing that the child obesity strategy will include a tax on sugary soft drinks as health campaigners pile pressure on David Cameron.

A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition - Sugar craft

Features

Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Thanks to Jamie Oliver, the WHO and the NHS, we are more aware of the need to cut sugar. By Mary Llewellin

Health campaign says young children should have three hours activity a day

News

Friday, July 29, 2016

| Nursery World

‘Every movement counts’ is the motto of a new Department of Health campaign to encourage children aged under five to be physically active for at least three hours a day.

Childhood obesity is 'everyone's business' and can no longer be ignored

News

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government must make sure that young children at risk of obesity are identified early to make sure that they and their families can access the right support, a committee of MPs says today.

Home Learning - A parent’s guide to…healthy eating

Features

Monday, May 2, 2016

| Nursery World

Getting a child to eat and drink a nutritionally balanced diet can be difficult. Penny Tassoni provides some useful tips

Early bedtime in young childhood 'cuts obesity risk'

News

Monday, July 18, 2016

| Nursery World

Researchers have linked a much lower incidence of obesity in teenagers who were tucked in by 8pm during their early years.

No clear route to tackle obesity

Opinion

Friday, August 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Linda Cregan, chief executive of Children's Food Trust, says the Childhood Obesity Plan is a missed opportunity for the UK to lead the way

Editor's view - A lightweight strategy

Opinion

Monday, August 22, 2016

| Nursery World

The childhood obesity plan has been served as a very lukewarm dish, says Liz Roberts

Nearly half of primary children overweight in parts of the country

News

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

| Nursery World

A new map tracking the waistlines of primary school children shows in some local authority areas close to 50 per cent of children are overweight or obese.

22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school

News

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children in the last year of primary school severely obese is almost double that of those in Reception, according to a new analysis by the Local Government Association.

Labour accuses Government of moving at ‘snail’s pace’ on tackling childhood obesity

News

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government has missed deadlines for four of the six policy consultations outlined in the second Childhood Obesity Plan, which was introduced a year ago, Labour claims today.

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