GOVERNMENT MUST REINVIGORATE SCHOOL SPORT TO TACKLE CHILDHOOD OBESITY

Reacting to news, in the government's Health Survey, that 46% of girls and 37% of boys aged between 11 and 15 are now overweight or obese, Hugh Robertson has called for exercise to be brought back into the curriculum.

“The government’s approach to tackling childhood obesity is a shambles. Their only answer is the school fruit scheme which, although excellent is, of course, not funded by government money but lottery money. The answer to tackling childhood obesity is to reintroduce proper physical exercise into the school curriculum. We make this attractive to children by using many of the new techniques.

These figures are the direct result of decades of left wing education ideology that believes that competitive sport is bad for a child’s development. Until we reincorporate exercise into the mainstream curriculum, obesity levels will continue to rise.”