The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued guidance on active play and sport for all children and young people up to the age of 18 in family, pre-school, school and community settings, in a bid to help local authorities meet their targets to promote physical activity and reduce obesity among children and young people..
Professor Mike Kelly, public health excellence centre director, NICE believes that the guidance will provide key support to authorities at a time when obesity figures among children and young people are "rocketing". Kelly says that although the guidance is for everyone working with children and young people, it must be implemented from the top.
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