The Department of Health released the long-awaited strategy to tackle childhood obesity in August
2016. This article extracts and summarises key elements from the strategy. The sections relating to
physical activity have been reproduced in detail. To read and reference the full strategy, download
it from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action
History
School
Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Physical Education Matters
Volume
11
Issue
3
Pages
10 - 11
Citation
HARRIS, J., 2016. The Association for Physical Education's response to: Childhood obesity: A plan for action. Physical Education Matters, Autumn, 11(3), pp. 10-11.
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Acceptance date
2016-11-01
Publication date
2016
Notes
This paper was published in the journal Physical Education Matters and the definitive published version is available at http://www.afpe.org.uk/membership-services/member-journals/physical-education-matters