A coalition of health groups, including the National Obesity Forum and the British Heart Foundation, has organised the National Childhood Obesity Week campaign. This includes the publication of the Action for Childhood Obesity Charter, which criticises the current target of reducing the proportion of children who are overweight or obese from its current level of 30 per cent to 2000’s level of 27 per cent by 2020.
A spokeswoman for Mend, the after-school health programme provider that is also part of the coalition, said: "We see the current target as just levelling off. We want to see a far greater reduction and for the government to review its current target."
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