A Sunday Express survey of councils found that in the past year five children were taken from their families for that reason: two in Wake-field, West Yorkshire, one in Oxfordshire, one in Salford and one in Hounslow, London.
The previous 12 months saw five similar cases in Sheffield, Portsmouth, Lincolnshire, Slough and Harrow, London.
A social worker said: "Only in extreme cases would we take a child into care just because of their weight as we would seek to work with the family to improve their eating habits."
Ex-Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson warned in 2006 that health chiefs would look at removing children from their families if they became super-sized, risking their health.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/450907/Social-workers-take-children-from-families-who-overfeed-them
Shouldn`t we be doing something about the hidden fat and sugar in supermarket food rather than taking children away?
And what about the advertising of junk food on children`s tv?
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/18/junk-food-children-marketing-who-tv
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