The live-in school — the first of its kind in the UK — will take youngsters aged 11 to 18 who are at least nine kilos (20lb) over their ideal weight and who have had dieting problems for a year or more.
08-08-2008

Set to open in 2011, it will be run by Wellspring Camps, the American weight-loss programme company the Sunday Sun featured two years ago when it opened its first summer “fat camp” for teenagers.
The camps are based at the University of Central Lancashire’s Newton Rigg campus near Penrith, Cumbria, and have proved to be a big success, with dozens of youngsters shedding several stones in weight during their stay.
More than 70 young people aged between 10 and 19 will attend the four to eight-week residential courses this summer, paying up to £6500 for eight weeks.
Meanwhile, the school — expected to be based in or near Penrith at a location yet to be decided — will teach the national curriculum while pupils will also learn food science and weight management.
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