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• Takeaways Toolkit
  Tools, interventions and case studies to help local Authorities develop a response to the health impacts of fast food takeaways. Takeaways may be good for London’s economy, but they’re often bad for Londoners’ health. To help London boroughs balance these conflicting priorities and understand the options available when considering the health impacts of fast food, The London Food Board, the Chartered institute for Environmental Health and the Mayor of London have created a 'takeaways toolkit'. The toolkit has three main recommendations for boroughs:- - making food healthier – working with takeaway businesses and the food industry to make healthier fast food. - starting them young – schools should have strategies to reduce the amount of unhealthy food children eat at lunch and on their journey to and from school. - planning for health – use regulatory and planning measures to address the proliferation of hot food takeaway outlets. This toolkit is intended to help local authorities and their partners, to understand the issues around, and reasons for, focusing on takeaway catering outlets as a means of increasing community health and wellbeing.
• Health for Life (in Primary Schools in Birmingham Programme)
  Birmingham Health Education Service are the lead agency for working with schools, Early Years settings and other services to support the health and well-being of children and young people. They are working with schools in the south of the city on a programme called Health for Life. The report on the first year of the programme is attached. It is a 5 year programme that will work with 100 primary schools on healthy eating,cooking, physical activity, growing food and family involvement. There are companion programmes starting this year (2012/13)that will work with secondary schools and the community to engender significant changes in the lifestyles of families and their children. All the programmes will be fully evaluated. We also work on programmes to develop skills and attitudes around: drug education, smoking education, relationship and sex education, emotional health and well-being including anti-bullying, Protective Behaviours, safeguarding and Citizenship If you have any queries please let me know. thanks Sandra Dr Sandra Passmore Education Adviser Health Education Service 0121 303 8200 07766924759 www.bgfl.org/hes www.servicesforeducation.co.uk
• ChiMat Obesity Knowledge Hub
  A new Knowledge Hub theme, Obesity has been created on the ChiMat website. It contains a range of evidence and intelligence on childhood obesity, including news, government policy, guides and practice, reports, research and tools and data. It sits alongside and complements other Knowledge Hub themes: disability, maternity, mental health and psychological well-being, safeguarding, workforce and young people. http://www.chimat.org.uk/obesity
• Dance Active Commissioning Dance for Health & Wellbeing Guidance and Resource for Commissioners
  Report commissioned by Department of Health West Midlands.
• West Midlands Healthy Start Transition Briefing
  
• West Midlands Healthy Start Transition Briefing
  
• Startwell programme (Birmingham)
  The Startwell programme supports early years settings to improve healthy eating and physical development through creating a healthier environment for our children and families. The programme offers a range of support that has been designed to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of early years professionals. The programme is funded by Birmingham Public Health (NHS) and links closely with the Quality Together Framework used by many early years providers. Visit www.startwellbirmingham.co.uk the brand new FREE website designed for early years professionals and parents to provide: § Separate early years professional and parents sections § More information about each of the 7 key messages § Practical ideas to put the 7 key messages into practice in your setting § Practical ideas for parents to put the 7 key messages into practice at home § Links to lots of useful resources § Information about free nutrition training available for early years professionals Please can you cascade this information to your staff and networks, and encourage them to sign up on the website to receive regular updates about early years healthy eating and physical activity. Kind regards, Maria Maria Kidd Health Improvement Specialist for Children Birmingham Public Health Email: maria.kidd@nhs.net Tel: 0121 465 8009
• Trucker Tucker (Worcestershire)
  Trucker Tucker (Worcestershire)
• Adult Obesity & Socioeconomic Status
  National Obesity Observatory Data Briefing.
• Briefing Note for Commissioners & Local Leads for Weight Management Services
  
• Be Active (Birmingham) Your 10 Point Plan to Losing Weight (and keeping it off)
  
• Be Active (Birmingham) Your 8 Point Plan to Healthier Eating
  
• Play For A Change
  A major literature review commissioned by Play England. For further details contact Lakhvir Sahota (lsahota@ncb.org.uk)
• Pregnant Women & Babies
  This framework has been developed by Staffordshire Children's Healthy Weights Group. It is intended to assist commissioners, planners and providers of services to consider the promotion of healthy weight for children as they commission and plan services and developments.
• Staffordshire Children & Families LAA Framework for Pre-School Children
  This framework has been developed by Staffordshire Children's Healthy Weights Group in conjunction with interested parties. The framework is intended to assist commissioners, planners and providers of services to consider the promotion of healthy weight for children as they commission and plan services and developments.
• Staffordshire's Children's Healthy Weight Group - Framework for School Children
  This framework has been developed by Staffordshire Children's Healthy Weight Group in conjunction with other interested parties. It is intended to assist commissioners, planners and providers of services to consider the promotion of healthy weight in children and families.
• Pregnancy and Your Weight
  Leaflet developed by Dudley PCT for their maternity department.
• Resources to Support Obesity Through Pharmacy - Activity
  Resources to support obesity through pharmacy - activity
• Resources to Support Obesity Through Pharmacy - Diet
  Resources to support obesity - diet
• Resources to Support Obesity Through Pharmacy - Weight
  Resources to support obesity through pharmacy - weight
• School Food Trust - Useful Resources
  

  The School Food Trust has developed resources for each Government Office to use in discussion with their respective local authorities to help address take-up of school lunch. These are attached:-

  • Revised Regional and Local Authority Reports
  • Graphs on each Government Office’s respective LAs, which includes a basic narrative outlining what the data is telling us
  • CSA Checklist (these can be used by other colleagues within the Region)
  • CSA Fact Sheets – (which looks at obesity and school meals; and the Change 4 Life Programme. These can be used by other colleagues within the Region)
  • The Trust’s FSM Report

  You may also find the following links useful:-

  1. Trust’s School Lunch and Behavioural Studies www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/doc_item.asp?DocCatId=1&DocId=106 & www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/doc_item.asp?DocCatId=1&DocId=107
  2. MADGe – Marketing and Design Generator madge.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/index.php/user/login
  
  
• Standard Evaluation Framework (SEP) for Weight Management Interventions
  

  The aim of the Standard Evaluation Framework (SEF) is to support high quality, consistent evaluation of weight management interventions in order to increase the evidence base.

  The Standard Evaluation Framework (SEF) provides introductory guidance on the principles of evaluation, and lists ‘essential’ and ‘desirable’ criteria. Essential criteria are presented as the minimum recommended data for evaluating a weight management intervention. Desirable criteria are additional data that would enhance the evaluation. The supporting guidance describes why particular criteria have been categorised as essential or desirable, and gives further information on collecting data.

  The Standard Evaluation Framework (SEF) will be essential reading to those commissioning, running or evaluating weight management interventions. For further information please go to:-

  www.noo.org.uk/SEF

  The National Obesity Observatory (NOO) will be evaluating the usefulness and impact of the Standard Evaluation Framework (SEF) and this will be informed by both quantitative and qualitative data, including the experiences of people who have used the guidance. If you would like to be involved in this evaluation, or if you have any feedback, please contact info@noo.org.uk