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Supporting healthy lifestyles: the National Child Measurement Programme Guidance for 2006–07 school year

This guidance provides advice to primary care trusts on how to measure the height and weight of children in primary schools as part of the National Child Measurement Programme. It also explains how to enter this information on to the National Child Measurement Database.

This edition was revised in May 2007. Details of the changes are included in this document.

The specimen information letter to parents is also available in languages other than English, in Word format (NB you will need to have the appropriate character set(s) installed on your computer) and in editable PDF format (NB unless you have Adobe Professional installed on your computer, you will not be able to save changes in this format and will need to print off the letters without saving them):

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