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Tackling child obesity: first steps: report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. National Audit Office, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION, AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Without clearer leadership from Departments there is a risk that the Government’s target to halt the rise in obesity in children under 11 will not be met. This is a key finding of this report which also investigates the strength and efficiency of that part of the delivery chain that aims to reduce obesity in children between the ages of 5 and 10. This is in a series of reports which examines the effectiveness of the mechanisms to deliver government Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets. The child obesity PSA target was set in July 2004, but the key ingredients of the delivery plan will not be published until May 2006. This report warns that a lack of timely guidance has meant that the various organisations that will need to work together to deliver the target have been unclear about their roles. Without greater clarity, those further down the delivery chain may be wasting resources on ineffective or inappropriate interventions that fail to target those children most at risk.