One in 10 children in England in their first year at primary school are obese, according to government data, underscoring the scale of a growing public health challenge.
Figures from the National Child Measurement Programme — which records the height and weight of more than a million primary school children each year — show 10.5 per cent of reception class children, aged four to five, were obese in 2024-25, up from 9.6 per cent the previous year.
Excluding a sharp increase during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, this is the highest level since recording began in 2006-07.
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