Resources (local, regional, national)
Regional Health and Well-being Strategy Launch
‘Better Health, Fairer Health’
The area's first ever health and well-being strategy aims to make people living here the healthiest in the country within a generation.
Dr Stephen Singleton, Regional Director for Public Health, is leading the strategy that was developed following a three-month consultation that attracted over 100 responses, including involvement from voluntary and community organisations. The strategy identifies priorities across the key themes, one of the key themes is ‘obesity, diet and physical activity’. Potential areas for action include the ‘value of cooking skills training’ and ‘the role of access to food in different communities’.
Click here for the Health & Wellbeing Strategy
Gateshead Nutrition Agreement
As part of the Nutrition Strategy for Gateshead, a Nutrition Agreement has been developed with key partners in relation to good practice in nutrition education and directly commissioned nutrition work. A checklist and key messages booklet are also available. http://www.cehi.org.uk/2007/05/gateshead_nutrition_agreement.html
National Resources
Food Strategy for the 21st Century
Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century. The report looks at long-term trends in food production and consumption, and the impacts that food production and consumption has both on our health and on the environment. It sets out a future strategic framework for food policy and practical measures for addressing issues around food and health, food and the environment and other concerns.
- Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century (Full Report)
- Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century (Executive Summary)
Food Statistics Pocketbook
An annual compendium, ranging from food prices to food supply, and now including data on food safety and consumer demand, this year’s Food Statistics Pocketbook also includes chapters on public health alongside statistics about the economic contribution of the UK food chain and the environmental impacts of UK food production and consumption. The collection of statistics gives a picture of all stages of the food chain, from production to consumption. Click here for the Food Statistics Pocketbook.
Weighing up the Advantages: A new role for councils in tackling obesity
The report calls for all councils to adopt an obesity strategy as part of their Local Area Agreements. The report looks at a sample of six UK local authorities to assess how well they were tackling obesity at a local level and found an extreme variation in the amount of work undertaken. The report highlights policies that appear to be working well such as the work of Westminster Council in improving access to healthy food in poorer areas and improving access to physical activity opportunities for adults.
weighing-up-the-advantages.pdf
‘Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives’
This cross-government strategy is the first step in a sustained programme to support people to maintain a healthy weight. It will be followed by a public annual report that assesses progress, looks at the latest evidence and trends, and makes recommendations for further action.
Aims to reverse the rising tide of obesity and overweight in the population by ensuring that everyone is able to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Initial focus will be on children: by 2020, aim to reduce the proportion of overweight and obese children to 2000 levels.
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_082378
Foresight report, ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices’
A long-term vision of how we can deliver a sustainable response to obesity in the UK over the next 40 years.
www.foresight.gov.uk/Obesity/Obesity.html
Local Resources
Report on Food and Health Community Based Activity in Newcastle
In August 2009, the Community Food Initiative carried out an audit of community food and health related activity. The resulting report highlights the wide variety of community food and health activities happening across the city, that are working together to tackle health inequalities. It gives an insight into the communities accessing the services, how these services are sustained and what the main food related issues of their service users are, as well as other interesting information. The report demonstrates the value of community based food and health activity in Newcastle and how this work impacts on the health of local communities. Click here
CFI Citywide Network Event June 2010
Please click on each presentation to view powerpoint:
Newcastle Nutrition, Louise Smith: Food Policies
The Co-operative Retailer, Andrew Donkin: Watch Your Waste Campaign
Deaflink, Katie Dewar & Rhona Stanbury: Deaf Womens Healthy Eating & Exercise Group
Tyneside Cyrenians, Phil Buxton: Horticultural Project (no powerpoint available)
Newcastle Obesity Group & the Eat Well Group: Update
The Newcastle Obesity Strategy and Action Plan feeds into the Newcastle Health Improvement Strategy and Children and Young People’s Plan. Representatives from the Primary Care Trust and other health partners, the Local Authority, Universities and community and voluntary groups, are currently developing the Obesity Action Plan. The Newcastle Community Food Initiative is a member of this group to represent the views of community food projects across the city and feed back what is happening.
The monitoring of the action plan objectives has ceased until the new structure of the Wellbeing and Health Partnership is confirmed. It is expected that the CFI will still have a role collating the information for the Obesity Strategy but also a role on the new Eat Well Group. More information will follow.
Kitchen facilities in Newcastle
The Newcastle Community Food Initiative has put together a list of kitchen facilities across Newcastle which may be available for use by community groups (Sept 2007).
