Welsh Social Services Are Taking Children Because They Are Too Fat

‘Social services are intervening in families or taking children into care partly because they are too fat.
Figures show that Welsh authorities are among those who have either put children on the child protection register or placed children into care where obesity or a high BMI were factors.
Three children in Carmarthenshire were placed on the child protection register between 2014 and 2016, where those concerns were a factor, according to a freedom of information response.’
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