The five councils - Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Bradford, Lewisham and Nottinghamshire - will receive £100,000 per year for three years to test and refine ideas for addressing childhood obesity and health inequalities.
They will be supported by the Department of Health and Social Care, the Local Government Association and Public Health England (PHE) to trial new programmes, which could shape future national policy.
It is part of a trailblazer programme announced in September 2018, which aims to develop local solutions to childhood obesity that can be shared across the country.
It is the second chapter of the government's childhood obesity plan, which was launched last year with the goal of halving childhood obesity and reducing the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030.
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