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Workforce development useful resources

Food Active

Weight Stigma Resource Hub: A collection of existing materials, as well as signposting to other excellent organisations and resources to help tackle weight stigma.

Obesity UK

Obesity UK - Language Matters resource: Outlines appropriate terminology for people living with the long-term condition of obesity.

Leeds City Council Public Health and Leeds Obesity Network

Healthy Conversations about Weight resource: Guidelines for Healthcare Professionals to aid having conversations with patients about weight (Be aware of Leeds specific training and resources referenced in the document).

Impact on Urban Health

Reframing how we talk about childhood obesity interactive toolkit: Helping professionals to use ‘framing’ to change the conversation to improve children’s health.

Trauma Informed Network

Learning Hub: A range of courses to support teams with a trauma informed way of working.

The Kings Fund

An introduction to leading with kindness and compassion in health and social care e-learning course: Develop a compassionate mindset and cultivate kindness and compassion in your relationships with fellow workers so you can achieve improved outcomes for patients and service users.

Making Every Contact Count (MECC)

e-learning programme: enables the delivery of consistent and concise health and wellbeing information to encourages individuals to engage in conversations about their health.

Human Learning Systems and complexity

Further information on Human Learning Systems and understanding complexity.

Other areas taking a compassionate and health gains approach

Information about Doncaster’s compassionate approach to weight and Bolton’s Health gains approach within their ‘Happy Healthy Families’ programme.