Food

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Food Health Policy

• Angela Towers
• North West Food Health Task Force
• July 14th 2004

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• National activity
• Regional local implementation
• Regional structures links

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National Activity

• Department of Health
• Food Standards Agency
• Department for the Environment, Food Rural
  Affairs
• Department for Education Skills

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Department of Health

• Food Health Action Plan
• 5 A DAY Programme
• Food in Schools Programme
• Salt
• Infant feeding
• Welfare Food Scheme reform

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Food Health Action Plan

• Choosing Health? Choosing a Better Diet
• Nutritional priorities
• Action to address priorities
• Public Health White Paper

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5 A DAY Programme

• Aims to increase fruit vegetable consumption by
  improving access to availability of fruit
  veg., and improving attitudes awareness.
• School Fruit Vegetable Scheme (98 sign up in
  NW)
• Local 5 A DAY initiatives (17 in NW - 66
  nationally)
• Partnership working OGDs, agencies, industry,
  NGOs etc
• Communications programme, including 5 A DAY logo
• Evaluation and monitoring

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259 stores throughout the UK price focused
The community retailer covering 150 towns 6
cities
10 million Minute Maids sold through McDonalds
each week
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Food in Schools Programme

• Joint DH DfES
• Aim - To enable schools to develop and implement
  sustainable in-house strategies for improving the
  nutrition and diet of children.
• 8 projects breakfast clubs, tuck shops, vending
  machines, water provision, dining room
  environment, lunch boxes, cookery clubs, growing
  clubs
• All with a healthier focus
• Healthy Living Blueprint

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• Salt
• Infant feeding
• Welfare Foods reform Healthy Start
• Obesity

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Food Standards Agency

• Key aims
• reduce foodborne illness by 20 by improving food
  safety right through the food chain
• help people to eat more healthily
• - Increasing activity on diet health
• - Action Plan for Food Promotion to Children
• - School food reports

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Department for the Environment, Food Rural
Affairs

• Strategy for Sustainable Farming Food
• - 10 work streams
• - Food Health Action Plan
• Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative

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Regional Structures Links

• Public Health Team at Government Office NW
• - co-located with other Government departments
• NW Food Health Task Force
• NW Development Agency
• NW Regional Assembly

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Implementation

• - National
• e.g. work with industry, regulation of
  advertising promotion
• Regional
• e.g. regional frameworks guidance
• Local
• e.g. community initiatives, local food networks,
  Local Strategic Partnerships

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Cross cutting approach to action

• Multi agency
• National - DoH, DEFRA, DfES, DCMS, FSA, OGDs,
  industry
• Regional GONW, NWDA, NWRA
• Local - Planning, Regeneration Renewal,
  Policing, Transport, PCTs, NHS, LEAs, LSPs,
  communities

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• www.foodandhealthnw.co.uk
• Angela Towers
• a.towers_at_livjm.ac.uk