<p>Childhood Obesity</p>

Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:54 pm on 21 June 2017.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 2:54, 21 June 2017

We have seen a large number of schools expressing a lot of interest in the daily mile scheme and accessing the online bilingual resources that we have. I don’t want to quote a number yet because, when we get to a landmark number, I’d like to make an announcement then, but I will say that there has been great interest in this scheme, and those schools that are doing it are reporting that they’re already seeing a difference in behaviour in class and so on. It’s very popular amongst teachers themselves, and also the children, and amongst parents as well. I’ve been working, as you say, with the education Minister to explore how we can roll out other things within the school environment as well, and one new programme that I’m very excited about, which has been built up over a period of time with pilot projects, has been the school holiday enrichment programme, which will be taking place in schools right across Wales over the course of this summer. That’s a really fantastic opportunity to give children the opportunity to have a healthy meal during the day during the holiday, but also to address things like holiday learning loss, because we know that some pupils return to school after the end of summer holidays and actually have slipped behind in their learning and so on. But the school holiday enrichment programme is really about making the school environment a fun environment to spend time in over the summer, and also to keep up your learning and to have access to a healthy meal and fun activities.