Claim: Childhood diabetes in England and Wales is up 40% in four years.
Fact-check: Is childhood type 2 diabetes up 40%? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is in the right ball park. data from both the nhs and the royal college of paediatrics and child health show this scale of increase across similar time periods.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2018-09-05T00:00:00