One in five Essex school children are classified as obese. Photos: Unsplash Children are more likely to be obese when they leave Blackburn with Darwen 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 22 per cent of Year 6 pupils in Blackburn with Darwen were classed as obese in 2019-20, up from 18 per cent in 2009-10. And it was a similar picture for children in reception with the proportion who were obese increasing slightly to 11% in 2019-20, from 10 per cent a decade before.
Update of the Obesity Profile online data tool to represent published data using 2020 Ward and CCG boundaries and 2021 local authority boundaries. The Obesity Profile presents data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) at Middle Super Output Area (MSOA), Ward, CCG, local authority, regional and national level. The NCMP small area data topic includes indicators on the prevalence of obesity, and excess weight (overweight and obesity combined) for Reception (age 4-5 years) and Year 6 (age 10-11 years) children using three years of data combined. Trend data is available for these indicators from the 2008 to 2009 up to 2019 to 2020 academic years.
AROUND one in seven children in Brighton and Hove are finishing primary school obese, new figures reveal. NHS Digital data shows 15 per cent of Year 6 pupils were classed as obese in the city in 2019-20. That figure was unchanged from 2009-10. 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. It was a similar picture for the proportion of reception-age children obese which was also unchanged. Across England obesity among Year 6 pupils rose from 19 per cent in 2009-10 to 21 per cent in 2019-20.
Children are more likely to be obese when they leave Cumbria s primary schools than 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 20 per cent of Year 6 pupils in Cumbria were classed as obese in 2019-20, slightly up from 19 per cent in 2009-10. But it was a different picture for children in reception with the proportion who were obese increasing slightly to 10 per cent in 2019-20. Across England obesity among Year 6 pupils rose from 19 per cent in 2009-10 to 21 per cent in 2019-20.
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