23rd October 2018
The Healthy High Streets Challenge finds that supporting local business to offer food options that are not just healthy but also cheap and tasty is the key to making London’s fast food outlets healthier for children and young people. Healthy London Partnership (HLP) has been working with fast food shops, business owners, charities and young […]
22nd October 2018
Londoners have identified too many cheap unhealthy food options as one of the top factors making it hard for children to lead healthy lives in the Capital. Here, HLP’s Dominic Jones reflects on the findings of the Healthy High Streets programme, which challenged three London high streets to try new ideas for making our high […]
22nd October 2018
The Healthy High Streets programme aim was to find and test solutions to improve the high street food environment. It did this by inviting ideas from people who trade on and use three high streets in London through a hyper-local challenge prize. This report shares information about the structure of the programme and how it […]
4th July 2018
The government has published its plan of the actions it will take to tackle childhood obesity by 2030. It commits to halve childhood obesity and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas. Part one of the childhood obesity plan was published in 2016. Read our summary of […]
13th February 2018
Nine out of 10 Londoners (86%) who responded to London’s Great Weight Debate believe tackling London’s childhood obesity epidemic to help children and young people lead healthier lives should be either the top or a high priority for the capital. More than 2,700 Londoners completed the Great Weight Debate survey which aimed to raise awareness […]
25th November 2017
London has more overweight and obese children than New York, Sydney, Paris or Madrid. More than a third are overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school. All London councils have new plans to tackle childhood obesity and are putting these into action. But we need to work smarter, faster and harder. Our […]
22nd January 2017
27th October 2016
An A4 poster and A5 leaflet that can be amended to include details of local Great Weight Debate events.