The next generation should be chasing their dreams, not a dentist appointment, say politicians

Keir Starmer has promised to end the scandal of plummeting child health outcomes over the last 14 years as he unveils a new ‘Child Health Action Plan’ to create the healthiest and happiest generation of children ever in Britain.

Ahead of a visit to a leading children’s hospital, the Labour leader slammed the Conservatives’ record, asserting that “the biggest casualty of short-term ‘sticking plaster’ politics of the last 14 years are the nation’s children”.

Labour’s Child Health Action Plan comes as bleak OECD data shows that British children are increasingly facing poor health outcomes and falling behind their international counterparts. The party reveals that British children today are smaller than Haitian children, fatter than the French, and less happy than the Turks.