<p>Reducing Childhood Obesity</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:18 pm on 20 September 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:18, 20 September 2016

(Translated)

Well, this, of course, is something that is part of the Donaldson review—namely to say that the purpose of education is to ensure that children are healthy, confident—and will be part of the work that is being done as regards the new curriculum. Health and also, of course, physical activity will be central to the new curriculum structure. At present, about 96 per cent of schools are participating in Dragon Sport, ensuring that children between seven and 11 are participating in sport and there are health-promotion workers in every school, that is every school that is part of the healthy schools network, and they support new ways of ensuring that more and more children participate in physical activity. So, work has been done, but it is vital, as I said, that both health and physical education are central to and put at the heart of the new curriculum.