However, if last week’s press reports are to be believed that she may intervene and either scrap or review key policies related to the evidence-based obesity strategy (already agreed under Conservative government) – this would be a catastrophic step back especially given more than one in four children are overweight or obese (28 per cent) by the time they start school.
We know children are hungry and families are being pushed to unhealthy options, so why remove all regulation at this critical time? Children living in the most deprived areas are more than twice as likely to be obese and suffer from tooth decay than those living in the least deprived areas (20 per cent vs 8 per cent and 34 per cent v 14 per cent).
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