Guidance

Child weight management: short conversations with families

Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals have conversations about weight management with children and their families.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 3 October 2017

This publication was withdrawn on 24 February 2026

This guidance has been withdrawn because it’s out of date. For current guidelines of the prevention and management of overweight, obesity and central adiposity, see NICE guidance on Overweight and obesity management (NG 246).

Documents

[Withdrawn] Let’s talk about weight: a step-by-step guide to conversations about weight management with children and families for health and care professionals

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[Withdrawn] Let’s talk about weight: infographic

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Details

This document offers tips on the short conversations health and care professionals should be having with overweight and obese patients about weight loss. It provides:

• practical advice on how to discuss weight loss
• tools to support making brief interventions

Published 3 October 2017