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

Speakers: Dr Lisa Cameron MP, SNP Spokesperson for Mental Health; Melissa Bui, Researcher and Author, The Intergenerational Foundation; Professor Catharine

Speakers: Harriet Waldegrave, Office of the Children’s Commissioner; Paul Thompson Owner of Water Babies; Patrick Myers DWP – Reducing Parental

Speakers: Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain; Steve Brine MP; Diarmid Campbell-Jack, Associate Director for Policy and Research

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