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Weight letters sent by schools
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
31 July 2008
From September, parents of four-and five-year-olds will receive letters from their child's school telling them their child's weight.
Under the National Child Measurement Programme, all reception class and Year 6 pupils are weighed and measured during the school year. Previously, parents were not told the results, but from next term all Primary Care Trusts are being encouraged to notify them. The Independent on Sunday claimed this week that thousands of parents kept their children off school the day their child was due to be weighed, making childhood obesity a far wider condition than previously thought. The newspaper revealed documents showing that despite a Government campaign to...
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