Restricting the appeal and availability of junk food in England - The role of local councils
The places where people live and work shape the decisions they are able to make: in places where unhealthy food is readily available and highly promoted it is harder for people to make healthy choices. Many councils are working to ensure the healthy choice is the easy and affordable choice – and the planning system is one of many ‘tools’ they have to do this. However, throughout the country councils are keen to do far more.
The government’s cross-cutting health mission has an ambition for ‘a fairer Britain where everyone lives well for longer’. For this to happen, councils must be empowered to ensure that hot-food takeaways and advertisements for unhealthy food are not unfairly concentrated in communities with the poorest health. This report by APSE and the TCPA sets out how councils are working to improve food environments and makes recommendations for policy changes that would empower them to do more.
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APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.
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