Sports clubs can help tackle obesity crisis, says MS

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Sports clubs have a role to play in helping cut levels of obesity, says James Evans.  The Brecon and Radnorshire MS raised the issue with Culture Minister, Jack Sergeant, at the Senedd.  Video from Senedd.tv

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00:00Dale Cloweth, community outreach Minister for our sports club is very, very important,

00:04but also how they link with community health as well.

00:07What we have across Wales is an obesity epidemic, and I think sport can play a huge role in

00:13actually addressing the obesity crisis, which we do have across Wales.

00:16So what I'm interested to learn, Minister, is what are you going to do to have better

00:20links with health to make sure that our sports clubs can play their role in ending obesity

00:25across Wales, and what time frames can we see of when implementation of this is going

00:30to happen, and when are we going to see the outcomes of the work that Government is doing?

00:34Carwyn Jones AM Thank you, James Evans, for that.

00:37I know, again, the Member in particular has a real passionate interest around the role

00:42sport and health can play in Wales and in his own constituency, and I know he's an avid

00:48sports player, Presiding Officeróan average sports player himself, that would be mean,

00:56Sam Kurtz.

00:57No, he's a very goodóCloweth, I played darts against James, he's much better than me.

01:06But the role he mentions in sport and what they can do in preventative measures in the

01:13health department is ever so important.

01:15I think it's a conversation that the Health Secretary and I, with his Deputy Ministers

01:20as well, will have further conversations on about what that looks like going forward.

01:25But just to point to the WRUs and the IRVs programme, their Fit, Fed and Fun programme

01:31that takes part during the school holidays, that doesn't just help battle loneliness and

01:39isolation, but it very much does all of the things James Evans wishes sport to do in terms

01:45of getting people fit, getting people healthy.

01:48I'm very committed to making sure anyone who wants to access sport in Wales can do so in

01:55whatever sport that may be, at whatever level, to make sure that we do have a healthy nation

02:01going forward.

02:02Jenny Rathbone AM What assessment has the Welsh Government made

02:07of the...

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