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• NCMP Data Published 2011/12 School Year
  The NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care report on NCMP: England, 2011/12 School Year has just been published It is available to download from: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/003_Health_Lifestyles/ncmp%202011_12/nati_chil_meas_prog_eng_2011_2012_rep.pdf This 52 page report summarises the key findings from the government’s National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for England, 2011/12 school year. The report provides high-level analyses of the prevalence of ‘underweight’, ‘healthy weight’, ‘overweight’, ‘obese’ and ‘combined overweight and obese’1 children, in Reception (aged 4–5 years) and Year 6 (aged 10–11 years), measured in state schools in England in the school year 2011/12. The report contains comparisons with 2010/11 and, where appropriate, comparisons have also been made with the results from earlier years. There are now six years of reliable NCMP data from 2006/07 to 2011/12. The data to be received during the 2012/13 school year is likely to contain a large cohort of children who were previously measured in reception during 2006/07. Additional analyses will be produced by the National Obesity Observatory (NOO) (expected to be published early 2013) and the anonymised national dataset will be made available to Public Health Observatories (PHOs) to allow regional and local analyses of the data. Summary findings: In Reception, over a fifth (22.6%) of the children measured were either overweight or obese. In Year 6, this proportion was one in three (33.9%). The percentage of obese children in Year 6 (19.2%) was over double that of Reception year children (9.5%). Among Reception year children, the prevalence of overweight pupils (13.1%) was greater than the prevalence of obese pupils (9.5%). In Year 6, the opposite was true with prevalence of overweight children (14.7%) being lower than that of obese children (19.2%). The prevalence of children with a healthy weight was higher in Reception (76.5%) than Year 6 (64.9%). In both years a higher percentage of girls were of a healthy weight than boys. In Reception 77.8% of girls and 75.4% of boys were a healthy weight and in Year 6 this was 66.2% and 63.6% respectively. The overall prevalence of underweight children was higher in Year 6 (1.3%) than in Reception (0.9%). In Reception, a higher percentage of boys were underweight than girls (1.1% and 0.7% respectively); whereas in Year 6, a higher percentage of girls were underweight than boys (1.5% and 1.1% respectively).
• Staff Health and Wellbeing Project: end of project report
  his end of project report for the multi-partnership project funded by the Black Country and Herefordshire and Worcestershire NHS Locality Boards was project managed by the UoW School of Health and Wellbeing. A substantial dissemination and integration activity plan is under way, co-ordinated by Jane Hulley , Development Manager for the Black Country Locality Board/LETC . Jane Bayliss and Jenny Wright will be implementing this plan and both are in the process of contacting public sector organisations in the Black Country and H&W Locality Board areas, to arrange an appointment. They will be able to share a range of promotional material and will be most happy to talk with workforce HWB leads in OH, OD and HR teams how the outcomes of this project could be integrated into organisational plans . Meanwhile, some of the planned work is continuing until August and outputs from the project are in the process of being uploaded to the specially built project e-resource site www.healthandwellbeing.nhslocal.nhs.uk Please do contact me if you would like more detail about aspects of the project that might be helpful. Appendices have been kept to a minimum but I can send project administration documents, templates etc by email Finally, and once more, a very grateful thank you to everyone who supported or contributed to this project, including Dr Steve Boorman who was the keynote speaker at our main dissemination conference in February. Kindest regards Robin Dr Robin Gutteridge PhD, MA, CPsychol, PGDip PST, MBACP(Accred), Cert Ed (FE) HPC Registered Counselling Psychologist: PYL27928 Consultant in Health and Wellbeing University of Wolverhampton School of Health and Wellbeing ML113 Off Deanery Row Wolverhampton WV1 1DT Telephone: 01902 518641 Mobile: 07854 904953 Email: robin.gutteridge@wlv.ac.uk
• Government publishes a call to action on obesity in England
  This report sets out a new approach to tackling obesity in England with a need for concerted action across society to achieve a downward trend in excess weight by 2020.
• SACN Dietary Recommendations for Energy report
  Update on the report, published in 1991, by the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA) which provided dietary reference values for energy (DRVs). The DRVs provide the best estimate of food energy needs for the UK population and its subgroups and criteria against which to judge the adequacy of their energy intakes. Any sustained imbalance between energy intake and expenditure will lead to progressive gain or loss in weight.
• Spatial Planning for Health - A Guide to Embedding the JSNA in Spatial Planning
  
• Lessons to Take Away - Conference Report
  
• An Economic Analysis of Three Living Well Projects
  Final Report of Living Well West Midlands.
• People's Health by Top Tier Local Authority Indicated as Better, Worse or Not Significantly Different from the Rest of England
  Taken from 2009 APHO Health Profiles.
• Equality Impact Assessment of the 2009/10 West Midlands Obesity Function
  Equality Impact Assessment of the West Midlands Obesity Function (including healthy eating, infant feeding, physical activity, obesity and breastfeeding).
• NHS Dental Epidemiology Programme for England - Oral Health Survey of 12 Year Old Children 2008/09
  
• Sandwell Child & Family Obesity Strategy - October 2010 Quarterly Update
  
• Local Authority Services (LARs) and Public Health
  Research to look at regulatory services and the nature of their relationship with the wider public health agenda. Their role has developed into a far wider one than just enforcement. These services play a crucial role in their local communities. These core services to the public are about the quality and standards of life and a number of public health priorities.
• An Evaluation of the FSA's Sandwich Shop Initiative (South West Region)
  The sandwich shop initiative was a unique policy experiment to attempt to influence food choices towards healthier options at independent sandwich shops without impacting on bottom line developed by the Food Standards Agency’s South West regional team. The project used social marketing techniques to influence behaviour change in line with the Change4Life approach.
• Maternal & Early Years Interventions to Address Food, Physical Activity & Emotional Well-Being of Children & Their Families
  
• Planning & Health - update and LTP3 - guidance for PCTs
  This report was prepared to update Directors of Public Health (DsPH) about cross-regional action on planning and health, including LTP3 Guidance to West Midlands PCTs.
• NICE PH27 - Dietary Interventions & Physical Activity Interventions for Weight Management Before, During & After Pregnancy
  
• Report on the Impact of HENRY in Heart of Birmingham tPCT (March 2010)
  
• Sandwell Child & Family Obesity Strategy Strategic Implementation Plan 2009/14 (January 2010 Update)
  
• Sandwell Child & Family Obesity Strategy Strategic Implementation Plan 2009/14 (May 2010 Update)
  
• Sandwell Obesity Briefing (July 2010)
  The purpose of the following brief is to give an overview of: obesity prevalence in Sandwell, the developing data & intelligence picture and current / planned actions in respect of children and adults.
• Healthy Weight Healthy Lives in the West Midlands - One Year On
  Healthy Weight Healthy Lives in the West Midlands - One Year On
• The Role of the Council as a Leader in Tackling Childhood Obesity
  The Role of the Council as a Leader in Tackling Childhood Obesity. A report for the West Midlands Children & Young People's Forum.
• Healthy Weight Healthy Lives Two Years On
  Healthy Weight Healthy Lives Two Years On (national report)
• FSA Sandwich Shop Pilot - Final Report
  Final report of a pilot initaitive introducing healthier sandwiches and fillings plus alternative snacks in a sandwich shop in Bristol.
• Childhood Obesity National Support Team: Update of findings
  The Childhood Obesity National Support Team (NST) was established in September 2007. Since then, the team has undertaken visits in every region in the country, completing a total of 22 visits by the end of December 2008.
  The main purpose of this report is to summarise and share the key learning we have gained from these visits regarding local areas and their progress on the healthy weight agenda. After providing a background to both the Childhood Obesity NST and the wider NSTs, the report highlights the team’s key findings, with a particular focus on our perceptions of areas that are in need of improvement. Included in this section are examples of potential good practice that we have collected from the areas visited. The report goes on to summarise feedback that local areas have given to us and which is of particular relevance to the Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
  Our key findings are that both the National Child Measurement Programme and Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives seem to have galvanised many areas into action, with progress now being made with the healthy weight agenda. There are, however, many common areas for improvement.
• Report to the Project Board - Training Update - Maternal and Early Year’s Healthy Weight Service
  Training Update on the lessons learnt from the training given to "Healthy Weight Advisors" as part of the development of a Maternal and Early Year’s Healthy Weight Service.
• Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives in the West Midlands: One Year On