About
The NSW Childhood Obesity Summit was held on September 10, 11 & 12 at NSW Parliament House.
The Summit brought together health experts, parliamentary representatives, industry, parents, teachers and children to develop practical solutions to the problem of childhood obesity.
Issues discussed included food sales and advertising, exercise, community and school programs and education campaigns.
Why was a summit held?
The purpose of the Summit was to:
- create a better understanding by Parliamentarians and the community of the causes, nature, and extent of the childhood overweight and obesity problem.
- inform the community through a forum bringing together a range of experts on public health nutrition, physical activity and childhood obesity as well as community representatives who reflect the spectrum of views on childhood overweight and obesity.
- listen to and consider the views of families, parents and young people.
- examine existing approaches to the childhood overweight and obesity problem and consider new ideas.
- consider evidence regarding those strategies that work and those that do not, and in particular, to look at:
- the effectiveness of existing NSW laws, policies, programs and services
- the effectiveness of current resource allocations in the area of childhood nutrition/physical activity and prevention of overweight and obesity
- identify ways to improve existing strategies and services that work and to identify gaps and needs in programs and services.
- build community consensus about future directions in childhood overweight and obesity prevention policy.
- recommend a future course of action so that the best available strategies, both long and short term, are implemented to overcome childhood obesity.
At the end of the three days the Summit proposed 145 resolutions and recommended that the NSW and Commonwealth Government adequately resource the resolutions. The resolutions are contained in the NSW Childhood Obesity Summit Communiqué.
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