Latest figures from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) show that 866 people aged under 25 received treatment from paediatric diabetes units in 2019/20, an increase of 9.6 per cent on the previous year and an increase of 59 per cent compared with 2014/15.
Some 84.2 per cent of the children and young people treated for type 2 diabetes were registered as obese over the last four years, according the RCPCH.
Local authorities, led by the Local Government Association (LGA), are calling for the forthcoming Spending Review to provide greater investment in community sports and leisure facilities, along with adequate long-term funding for local authority weight management services and healthy schools initiatives via the public health grant.
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