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

Meeting notes from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on A Fit and Healthy Childhood.

20/04/16 – The tax on sugary drinks (and what else we might expect from the National Obesity Strategy)

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

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24/02/16 – The role of physical education and activity in a fit and healthy childhood

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

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19/01/16 – Presentations from AB Sugar and 2020health

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

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01/12/15 – Public Health England’s recommendations to the Obesity Strategy

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

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28/10/15 – Tesco’s 10-point plan to combat obesity

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

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14/10/15 – Working Group Report – Play

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

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16/09/15 – Scientific Advisory Committee Nutrition’s working group on carbohydrates (SCAN)

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

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21/07/15 – Poor fitness and Early Childhood Obesity – suggestions to tackle these problems

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

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17/06/15 – Working Group Report – Food in Schools and the Teaching of Food

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

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19/03/15 – Q&A with the President of the British Medical Association

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

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25/02/15 – Fitness in schoolchildren

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

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21/01/15 – Q&A with Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson on Pathways into Sport

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Speaker: Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson

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09/12/14 – Q&A with Luciana Berger MP, Shadow Public Health Minister

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

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25/11/14 – Food in Schools and the role of local authorities in child fitness and health

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

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05/11/14 – Health Select Committee’s call for evidence on diet, exercise and health

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

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21/10/14 – Presentations from NICE and Slimming World

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

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09/07/14 – Too Much Sugar

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

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14/05/14 – Labour’s proposals for regulation relating to children’s food

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

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08/04/14 – How Can We Reduce Childhood Sugar Consumption?

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

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11/02/14 – First meeting

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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

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