Agenda item

The purpose of this report is to present members of the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee with information received to date on the Childhood Obesity Review.

Members were presented with information received to date in respect of the Childhood Obesity Review.

The Scrutiny Officer referred to the following amendment required to the report:

• Paragraph 70 - Recommendations – should refer to ‘…the next steps set out in paragraphs 59 to 61 of this report’.

Members referred to the large amount of information received to date and for the need for the Task Group to stay focussed on the remit of the review.

Members referred to Annex E of the report, which detailed the statistics on school meal take up annually since 2003. It was pointed out that in the 1980/90’s North Yorkshire County Council had the highest take up of school meals in the country. Reference was also made to the drop in take up of Free School Meals and the need for the authority to promote a general increase in take up. Members of the Committee felt that the Education Authority should proactively encourage the promotion and general take up of both school meals and free school meals through individual schools and their Governors. They suggested that the Childhood Obesity Task Group might like to consider including a recommendation about this.

The Chair thanked both Members of the Task Group and Officers for all their hard work in compiling the information contained within the interim report.

RESOLVED:          That the interim report be noted together with the next steps outlined in paragraphs 59 to 61 of the report.

REASON:                     In order to progress this review.