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1. There needs to be serious consideration of the resources needed to invest in preventive services, and in all other tiers of the obesity pathway for children and the ways in which these will be different to adult services.

There is likely to be increasing political pressure to do more to address childhood obesity.

Huge costs of obesity with the associated personal and emotional costs to the individuals and their families have been predicted.                              

There is little evidence that that target of halting the year on year rise in childhood obesity by 2010 will be met either locally or nationally.

The Obesity Strategy for Newcastle upon Tyne outlines an evaluation and monitoring process but it is too soon to see the results of this.

Cost

Capacity and uptake

The Costing Report on obesity services in Newcastle upon Tyne concluded:

Childhood overweight and obesity are more common among boys (under ten), Asian families and poorer families, thus it is more common in area with high levels of deprivation.

In Newcastle upon Tyne there is evidence that there is a higher rate of overweight and obesity among children in Yr 6 living in deprived areas.