Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department provides to the parents of obese children on healthy eating and achieving a healthy weight.

The Government issued its Child Obesity Plan in August 2016 which sets out wide ranging action across government to tackle child obesity.

Through the National Child Measurement Programme, children have their weight status checked in Reception and Year Six. Most parents then receive their child’s result along with information about action they can take as a family, and where to access further advice and support.

Change4Life is Public Health England’s flagship social marketing programme aiming to inspire a social movement, through which families, as well as community leaders, government, the National Health Service, local authorities, businesses, charities, and schools, could all play a part in helping children to eat well and move more.

The Change4Life website also supports the National Child Measurement Programme by providing advice for parents concerned about their child’s weight with ideas for how to help children be a healthy weight.