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News Brief: Calls for obesity to be classified as neglect

Doctors are calling for obesity to be possible grounds for children being taken away from their parents. A motion is to be raised at British Medical Association annual meeting next week to classify obesity in extreme cases among under-12s as an act of neglect.

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