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ST HELENS Council is considering the rare step of starting legal proceedings to take two children into care because of fears over their obesity levels.
The Star has learned that the parents of a teenage girl and toddler have been threatened with care proceedings.
It is understood that social workers fear the girls? weight is putting them at risk of serious health problems.
The council has declined to comment on the case. However, it is understood this would represent the first occasion in which it has attempted to take children into care because of obesity.
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/10076652.Council_threatening_to_take_obese_children_into_care/
The Star has learned that the parents of a teenage girl and toddler have been threatened with care proceedings.
It is understood that social workers fear the girls? weight is putting them at risk of serious health problems.
The council has declined to comment on the case. However, it is understood this would represent the first occasion in which it has attempted to take children into care because of obesity.
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/10076652.Council_threatening_to_take_obese_children_into_care/