Who should take action?

• Health and wellbeing boards
• Local education and training boards
• Directors of public health and local public health providers
• Academic health networks and other academic institutions
• Professional bodies providing training in weight management, diet or physical activity

Actions

• All of the above should ensure all relevant staff who are not specialists in weight management or behaviour change can give people details of:

• local services that are likely to be effective in helping people maintain a healthy weight

• local lifestyle weight management services that meet best practice as outlined in the obesity pathway.

• All of the above should promote, as appropriate, web resources which encourage a community-wide approach to obesity. Resources include: Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: a toolkit for developing local strategies the Obesity Learning Centre and Healthy Places resources.​

• For recommendations on training for public sector catering staff see the diet pathway.