What is The Child Healthy Weight Service?
This service is dedicated to supporting children, young people and their families to make healthy lifestyle changes to support a healthy weight, and improve their overall well-being.
We help families manage the following issues (and opportunities) in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle:
- Developing a healthy diet to meet your nutritional needs
- Meal planning and portion sizes
- Parenting and setting boundaries in relation to food
- Overcoming emotional eating
- Understanding the relationship between mood and food
- Managing weight related body-image concerns
- Increasing activity levels
- Reducing screen time
Who is the service for?
We work with children and young people and their families who are:
- Aged 0-18,
- Been identified by a health professional as having a weight over the 96thcentile
- Or over the 91stcentile with other health difficulties.
If you’re unsure what this means, please ask your health professional.
Our focus is not solely on weight loss. We aim to help people to improve their health over all, so that they feel better and are able to enjoy life as fully as possible.
Accessing The Child Healthy Weight Service
The first step in accessing the service will be to complete a pre-assessment questionnaire. After this, if we think our service might be able to offer support, we will contact you to invite you to an initial assessment with our team. Here we will spend time getting to know your family, including the things you are finding most difficult, and then work together to decide how best we can meet your needs.
You can access the questionnaire by clicking here or by emailing us on gram.childhealthyweightservice@nhs.scot if you would like us to mail you a paper copy.
If you haven’t already been referred to the service you can also use this form to request input.
Contact Details
Child Healthy Weight
Community Weight Management Department,
Urquhart Building,
City Hospital,
Park Road,
Aberdeen, AB24 5AU
Tel – 01224 556556
