Council warning to families guilty of neglect
Grossly overweight children may be taken from their families and put into care if Britain’s obesity epidemic continues to escalate, council chiefs said yesterday.
The Local Government Association argued that parents who allowed their children to eat too much could be as guilty of neglect as those who did not feed their children at all.
The association said that until now there had been only a few cases when social services had intervened in obesity cases. But it gave warning that local councils may have to take action much more often and, if necessary, put obese children on “at risk” registers or take them into care. It called for new guidelines to be drawn up to help authorities deal with the issue.
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This Big Brother Intervention will keep on going until WE the people do something about it!
Get hold of your local councillor and MP, write, phone , Go and see them at one of their surgeries and let them know in no uncertain terms that unless they get off their fat asses and do something about it then they won't be in office much longer.
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