Category: APPG on a Fit and Healthy Childhood – Meeting Notes

Speakers: Brian Jarrett, CEO of The People’s Supermarket; Edwina Revel, Programme Director, Early Start Group Ltd; Louisa Mason, Policy & Communications

Speakers: Dr Martin Yelling, Stormbreak; Andy Anstey, England Athletics; Helen Clark, Lead Author

Speakers: Sumi Rabindrakumar, Trussell Trust; Ros McNeil, National Education Union; Pandora Haydon, The Food Foundation

Speakers: David Austin and Amelia Errat, British Board of Film Classification; Peter Violaris, Yoti; and Alistair Graham, Age Checked.

Speakers: Kiruthika Rajeswaran and Dr. Chinnadorai Rajeswaran, Simplyweight; Jenny Caven, Slimming World; Phil Veasey, The Mayor of London’s Child Obesity

Speakers: Helen Clark, Lead Author; Dr Victoria Randall, University of Winchester; Jack Shakespeare, Head of ukActive Kids; James Opie, Author;

Speakers: Ian Hickman and Jon Le Fevre, founders of the Charter on Children’s Assessment; Nick Brook, NAHT; Ken Jones, NEU;

Speakers: Jeffrey Hugh Thomas, CEO, Play Therapy UK; Dr. Aric Sigman, Independent Lecturer and Author; Michelle Lee-Izu, Corporate Director Children’s

Speakers: Ross McKahon, CEO, Kendal Nutricare; Declan O’Brien, Director General, BSNA; Catherine Elwig, paediatric specialist, BDA

Speakers: Jane Nickerson, Chief Executive Officer, Swim England; Kate Thornton-Bousfield, Primary School lead, Youth Sport Trust; Dr Gerald Griggs, Head of

Speakers: Helen Clark, Lead Author of the Report; Vicky Parkinson/Kate Day from the National Counselling Society; Steve Franks, Children First and

Speakers: Professor Jason Halford, University of Liverpool; Joanna Saunders, Leeds Beckett University; and Pippa Bagnall, Head of Wellbeing, Mytime Active

Speakers: Matthew Blow, Young Minds; Neera Sharma, Barnardo’s;  Josie Smith,  Barnardo’s.

Speakers: Dr. Victoria Randall from the University of Winchester; Helen Clark, Lead Author of the report; and Anna Ford from the

Speakers: Katy Askew, Senior Editor of Food Navigator; Dan Parker, the Chief Executive of Living Loud; and Malcolm Clark, Policy Manager

Speakers: Claire Stevens, Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry; Professor Michael Escudier, Dean of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons; and Sara Hurley,

A meeting was held at the Department of Health to discuss the findings of the 8th APPG report “Physical Activity

Speakers: Tom Gibbons (Lawn Tennis Asscn; Thomas Munnelly and Isabelle Kennedy (Slimming World)

Speaker: Jonathan Ashworth MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health

Speakers: Nic Dakin MP and Steve Franks of Water Babies, Sponsors of the Report

Speakers: Baroness Benjamin, Helen Clark (lead author), and Jenny Caven of Slimming World, Sponsors of the Report

Speakers: Chris Wright, Head of Wellbeing, Youth Sports Trust; John Herriman, CEO, Greenhouse Sports; Dr Mike Loosemore, the Institute of Sport UCL

Speakers: Sean Fletcher, personal testimony; Dr. David Whitebread, Learning & Development (PEDAL) research centre, University of Cambridge; Gregor Henderson, Wellbeing and

Speakers: Tim Rycroft, Food  & Drink Federation; Jack Winkler, Emeritus Professor of Nutrition and Policy, London Metropolitan University, Emma Reed, Deputy

Speakers: Professor Nigel Hunt, Royal College of Surgeons; Sara Hurley, Chief Dental Officer for England; Claire Stevens, University Dental Hospital of

Speakers: Sarah Woollaston MP, Chair – Health Select Committee, Rosena Allin-Khan MP, Shadow Minister for Sport; Kelvin Hopkins MP, ex-Shadow Secretary

Speakers: Louise Silverton CBE, Director for Midwifery, Royal College of Midwives, and Amanda Avery RD, University of Nottingham and Consultant

Speakers: Justine Hare, Senior Corporate Affairs Manager, Mars Food UK; Polly Jones and Dr Hayley Marson, Asda Stores; Mark Saxon, Coca-Cola GB

Speakers: Tim Rycroft, Food and Drink Federation; Prof. Philip James, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Prof. Simon Capewell, University of Liverpool

Speakers: Andrew Cook, Ofsted; Eustace de Souza, National Lead on Children, Young People and Families at Public Health England; Prof. Nick Draper, University

Speakers: Katharine Teague, Head of Advocacy, AB Sugar and Julia Manning, Chief Executive, 2020health

Speaker: Dr. Alison Tedstone, National Lead, Diet and Obesity and Chief Nutritionist, for Public Health England

Speakers: Rebecca Shelley, Group Communications Director, Tesco; Tim Smith, Product Quality Director, Tesco

Speakers: Tony Hicks, LeapFrog Toys,  Mark Hardy, Chairman, Association of Play Industries, Dr. David Whitebread, University of Cambridge

Speaker:  Prof. Ian Macdonald, Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition’s working group on carbohydrates (SCAN)

Speaker: Professor Neena Modi, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; and Helen Clark reporting on the meeting

Speakers: Baroness Benjamin; Dr Estelle Mackay MSc PhD SRD; Dr Emma Derbyshire BSc PhD RNutr

Speaker: Sir Al Aynsley-Green: President Elect of the British Medical Association

Speakers: Dr Gavin Sandercock: Reader in Clinical Physiology and Head of Centre for Sports Science,  University of Essex; Rob Newsome OBE, Head

Speaker: Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson

Speaker: Luciana Berger MP, and Helen Clark on the progress of the first working group

Speakers: Malcolm Clark, Lambeth Councillor, co-ordinator of the Children’s Food Campaign  and Councillor Alison Martin, Cabinet Member, Derby City Council

Speaker: Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair, Health Select Committee

Speakers: Prof. Mike Kelly of NICE and Dr. Jacqui Lavin of Slimming World

Speaker: Dr Robert Lustig, author Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth about Sugar

Speaker: Rt. Hon. Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health

Speakers: Professor David Walker, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Health in England, and Professor Jack Winkler, Former Professor of Nutrition Policy, London

Our speaker was our Chair, Baroness (Floella) Benjamin of Beckenham OBE, who introduced the Group, set out our ambitions, ​and called upon all political Parties