Who should take action?

• Health and wellbeing boards
• Local education and training boards

Actions

Health and wellbeing boards, local education and training boards, and public health teams should ensure partners across the local system have opportunities to increase their awareness and develop their skills to take forward an integrated approach to obesity prevention. Local organisations, decision makers, partners and local community champions, including those from public, private, community and voluntary sector bodies working in health, planning, transport, education and regeneration, should receive training to:

• increase their awareness of the local challenges in relation to public health and preventing obesity (in particular, increasing their awareness of the local joint strategic needs assessments [JSNAs])​

• understand the local systems and how their own work can contribute to preventing and managing the condition (for example when developing local commissioning plans, local planning frameworks or care provision)​

• develop their community engagement skills to encourage local solutions and ensure they co-produce an integrated approach​

• understand the importance of monitoring and evaluation to the approach.

Local education and training boards should ensure health promotion, chronic disease prevention and early intervention are part of the basic and post basic education and training for the public health workforce.