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Around one in six children in Hertfordshire are finishing primary school obese, new figures reveal – although the proportion has fallen from a decade ago. A new report from Public Health England looking back over the last 10 years has concluded there is a strong link between obesity and the poorest areas in the country. NHS Digital data shows 16 per cent of Year 6 pupils in Hertfordshire were classed as obese in 2019-20, slightly down from 17 per cent in 2009-10. It was a similar picture for the proportion of reception-age children obese has gone down slightly to 8 per cent in 2019-20, from 9 per cent a decade before.
Children living in the most deprived areas of England are more than twice as likely to be obese than those living in the least deprived areas, a national study has found. Photo: Radar Children are more likely to be obese when they leave Wirral s primary schools as they were a decade ago, figures show. A new report from Public Health England looking back over the last 10 years has concluded there is a strong link between obesity and the poorest areas in the country. NHS Digital data shows 21% of Year 6 pupils in Wirral were classed as obese in 2019-20, slightly up from 20% in 2009-10.
Children are more likely to be obese when they leave Southampton s primary schools as they were a decade ago, figures show. A new report from Public Health England looking back over the last 10 years has concluded there is a strong link between obesity and the poorest areas in the country. NHS Digital data shows 24% of Year 6 pupils in Southampton were classed as obese in 2019-20, up from 20% in 2009-10. But it was a different picture for children in reception with the proportion who were obese falling slightly to 10% in 2019-20, from 11% a decade before. Across England obesity among Year 6 pupils rose from 19% in 2009-10 to 21% in 2019-20.