Schools not ‘silver bullet’ to tackling childhood obesity

Ofsted has released a report on obesity, healthy eating[,] and physical activity in primary schools.

"Inspectors found that schools put too much effort into activities designed to influence parents without any evidence that they either have an impact or are what parents want. Eighty-three per cent of parents said they had been invited to an event at school. But many of them told Ofsted they are time-poor and what they really want is readily available information about what their child is doing at school: what they are eating and learning about, so that this can be followed up on at home."