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This forum is driving forward the Healthy Young London campaign which is strengthening partnerships between health and education.

Activities include:

• Promoting healthy eating and supporting local action to improve school food.
• Developing a framework that will assist agencies in improving children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing in London.
• Driving action on the key priorities for London in relation to the 'Improving health' outcome of Every Child Matters and contributing to the development of London-wide work on Every Child Matters as a whole.
  

The forum is chaired by Government Office for London's (GOL) Director of Children and Learners, Jennifer Izekor.

Organisations represented include: National Healthy Schools, London Development Centre for Mental Health, Sport England, Sure Start, National Council of Voluntary Childcare Organisations and the Big Lottery Fund.

GOL co-ordinates its work. The King's Fund and London's strategic health authorities have all pledged investment for 2006-08.

"The London Health Commission offers us a unique and powerful vehicle for fulfilling our aspirations to work in partnership to deliver national policy and programmes in a joined up way across London. We have designated the LHC Children and Young People's Forum as the 'Be Healthy' working group on the Every Child Matters agenda; it brings together senior staff, working on the children's agenda, from the many organisations across London that are key to delivery of change for children."
Jennifer Izekor, Director of Children and Learners, GOL

The Healthy Young London Campaign

Activity is focussed on the Healthy Young London campaign which was launched on 15 July 2004 at Wellington School, Tower Hamlets.

The campaign has 3 parts:

• Eating healthily
• Being physically active
• Positive emotional wellbeing - Emotional Health and Wellbeing Framework

The campaign was launched with the support of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and took place during a visit of the Focus on Food/ FSA Cooking Bus to the school. The press release is available to download.

The Cooking Bus visited four sites in London during July 2004. In addition to these visits we have been working with local partners to facilitate a series of roundtable discussions to examine the key issues, opportunities and barriers to providing healthy food choices in London's schools and to hear examples of good practice. Four roundtable events will be taking place.

For further information, contact:
Gus Wilson, Policy Support, London Health Commission Children's Forum