Food Active Conference 2018
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On Tuesday 6th November we held our annual conference in Manchester, this year the theme being ‘Childhood Obesity: Let’s Start at the Very Beginning’. The event was attended by 85 delegates from across the North West and beyond, and was kindly chaired by Dr. Sandra Davies, Director of Public Health at Liverpool City Council.
Thank you to all of our local authority partners for supporting the event, our fantastic line up of speakers and a room full of engaged delegates.
The key objectives of the event were to:
- Review the current evidence of the importance of healthy weight from preconception to preschool in preventing childhood obesity and barriers to achieve this.
- Through a two-part workshop session, gather information from delegates on what they think are the most important local and national actions to tackle preconception and maternal nutrition, obesity in very early life and the food environment.
- Share best practice and initiatives for local authorities to tackle obesity from preconception to preschool.
If you missed out on a place or couldn’t attend the conference, the resources below will contain everything you need to get you up to speed with the content covered on the day. For those who were in attendance, a chance to recap on the mass of information that was shared on the day!
Conference Report
In this report you will find:
- Details and signposting information for organisations presenting at the exhibition
- Links to Gallery and Twitter activity
- Summaries for each speaker presentation
- Detail and outcomes of the workshop sessions, including our proposed action
- Evaluation from delegates
