{"id":1195,"date":"2019-01-09T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2019-01-09T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T11:32:52","slug":"active-kids-saving-parents-money-and-tackling-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/01\/09\/active-kids-saving-parents-money-and-tackling-childhood-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTIVE KIDS SAVING PARENTS MONEY AND TACKLING CHILDHOOD OBESITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government\u2019s Active Kids program is now open for 2019 after an enormously successful first year, which saw families save more than $54 million in children\u2019s sport, fitness and recreation activities.<br \/>\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian said 540,000 of the $100 vouchers were redeemed in 2018 making sport more accessible for families and helping to reduce childhood obesity.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have made it a priority to reduce childhood overweight and obesity rates in NSW and now with Active Kids we have almost half of all school-enrolled kids enjoying the benefits of exercise,\u201d Ms Berejiklian said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is clear the first year of the program has been a huge success and I want to see even more families take advantage of the vouchers and enroll their children in sport in 2019.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Active Kids program is just one of the ways the NSW Government is easing cost of living pressures on families. We also have our $100 Creative Kids vouchers, cheaper Green Slips, free and half priced car rego for toll road users.\u201d<br \/>\nMinister for Sport Stuart Ayres said parents can register for the Active Kids program again in 2019 by registering online to receive their $100 voucher to go towards membership expenses and fees.<br \/>\n\u201cActive kids are happy and healthy kids and this program means that every child in the State has the opportunity to be fit and active,\u201d Mr Ayres said.<br \/>\nActive Kids supports the Premier\u2019s Priority to reduce overweight and obesity rates of children by five per cent over ten years.<br \/>\nThere are 9600 approved Active Kids providers across NSW. For more information and a list of approved providers, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sport.nsw.gov.au\/activekids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sport.nsw.gov.au\/activekids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government\u2019s Active Kids program is now open for 2019 after an enormously successful first year, which saw families save more than $54 million in children\u2019s sport, fitness and recreation activities. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 540,000 of the $100 vouchers were redeemed in 2018 making sport more accessible for families and helping to reduce &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/01\/09\/active-kids-saving-parents-money-and-tackling-childhood-obesity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACTIVE KIDS SAVING PARENTS MONEY AND TACKLING CHILDHOOD OBESITY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}