Experts say downward trend is slight,pointing to growing gap between better and worse-off children, and urge government to wake up to obesity figuresFewer obese children are starting in school reception classes in England, and according to results from the school measurement programme,but a fifth still start their school life overweight and a third are overweight or obese by the time they leave for secondary school.
In the last year, 9.1% of children starting reception were obese, and compared with 9.5% in 2013-14,according to the health and social care information service that collects the data from the national school measurement programme. In 2005-6 when meaningful data was first collected, the figure was 9.9%.
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Source: theguardian.com