With approximately one in five children in NSW now overweight or obese, it is important that parents know how to prevent their children from becoming overweight or obese. Childhood obesity is linked to poor self-esteem, asthma, increased risk of heart disease, sleep apnoea, body dissatisfaction, fatty liver and orthopaedic complications.

Childhood obesity factsheets

To help with the management of childhood overweight the team at The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) have prepared a number of fact sheets. They are available on The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN) website here.

Weight4KIDS

Weight4KIDS is a professional development online learning program for all health professionals. It offers a series of 11 e-learning modules developed by experts with the specific purpose of up skilling health professionals from all disciplines in assessment and treatment of children and adolescent whose weight is above the healthy range.

E-learning site (http://www.doh.edmore.com.au/)

• Access is available to all NSW Health Staff – Request a login on the home page if required.

Resources for families and clinicians are available in multiple languages from the downloads section.

Please click here to order hard copies of the resources available in the downloads section.