At last ....some common sense from social workers

At last thank the lord a Social Worker has done something worth their salary.

Indolent parents take note, if you fail in your duty to keep your child healthy you could lose them! being fat is NOT funny it may be easier for a lazy parent to feed their child on take away or fast food but the damage it does to that child is immense! especially as they reach their teens the taunts of peers WILL drive them into other damaging behavior.

Documents Obtained under Freedom of Information laws, reports showed one boy aged six in Derby was taken from his home by social workers because he was dangerously obese.

Another boy in London, aged 12, was put into care with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28 - 60 per cent above the 17.5 average for his age.

In Cumbria, social services intervened when one girl aged only eight weighed over 9st and wore size 16 clothes.

Dr Colin Waine, former head of the National Obesity Forum, called for closer monitoring of children to avoid them being taken into care.

Recent figures suggest a third of 13-year-olds are obese or overweight, and that a million children in England will be obese within five years.

Earlier this month, Tam Fry, a member of the National Obesity Forum's board, told a conference that youngster over-fed by their parents should be treated as victims of abuse, as happens with malnourished children.

Mr Fry said: "It is drastic but it's a long-term therapy. For the sake of the children it does need to be done because we have got children who are horrendously fat."