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Health: Local firms to help children keep fit

A programme to encourage staff from local businesses to get children active during lunch breaks is to go UK-wide, following the success of a pilot project.

The charity Life Education Centres has spent the past month working withvolunteers from private health firm Bupa on the Fit4Life programme attwo primary schools in the London Borough of Camden. The volunteers workwith school staff to get children playing healthy games, such asbaseball and hand tennis.

Stephen Burgess, national director of Life Education Centres, toldChildren Now: "It's about engaging communities to help achieve healthyoutcomes for children. We hope to expand it to the 4,000 primary schoolswe already work with."

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