Children’s health organisations have warned that restarting a scheme to weigh children in schools could increase young people’s risk of developing eating disorders. The government has announced that the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) has restarted after being paused due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The scheme weighs children in reception (aged four and five) and year six (aged 10 and 11) in all state primary schools to alert parents if their children are at risk of developing childhood obesity. Read more.
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