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The National Child Measurement Programme: guidance for PCTs 2007-08 school year
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Document type:Guidance
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Author:Cross-Government Obesity Team
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Published date:26 September 2007
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Gateway reference:8780
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Pages:31
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Supersedes/replaces:
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Copyright holder:Crown
This guidance has been developed following wide consultation with primary care trusts (PCTs) and schools. It provides advice to PCTs on:
- arrangements for measuring the height and weight of primary and middle school children as part of the National Child Measurement Programme; and
- upload of this information to the Information Centre for health and social care (IC).
Headteacher and governor letter
Opt-out and feedback request letter to send to parents
The specimen letter to parents with opt-out and feedback-request forms is available in fifteen languages other than English. The letters are provided in editable PDF format to enable you to enter details for your PCT.
- Download letter in Arabic (PDF, 178K)
- Download letter in Bengali (PDF, 137K)
- Download letter in Chinese (Simplified - Mandarin) (PDF, 192K)
- Download letter in Chinese (Traditional - Cantonese) (PDF, 218K)
- Download letter in Czech (PDF, 198K)
- Download letter in Farsi (PDF, 145K)
- Download letter in French (PDF, 153K)
- Download letter in Gujarati (PDF, 138K)
- Download letter in Polish (PDF, 134K)
- Download letter in Portuguese (PDF, 110K)
- Download letter in Punjabi (PDF, 129K)
- Download letter in Russian (PDF, 156K)
- Download letter in Somali (PDF, 103K)
- Download letter in Spanish (PDF, 107K)
- Download letter in Urdu (PDF, 97K)
Results letter for PCTs to send to parents
DH have developed a standard specimen letter which PCTs can send to parents who have requested their child's results from the National Child Measurement Programme (found in Appendix 4 of the PCT guidance).
The specimen results letter for parents is available in fifteen languages other than English. The letters are provided in editable PDF format to enable you to enter details for your PCT.
Reminder: PCTs should only provide the child's height and weight to parents.
- Download results letter in English (PDF, 504K)
- Download results letter in Arabic (PDF, 521K)
- Download results letter in Bengali (PDF, 508K)
- Download results letter in Simplified Chinese (PDF, 532K)
- Download results letter in Traditional Chinese (PDF, 547K)
- Download results letter in Czech (PDF, 542K)
- Download results letter in Farsi (PDF, 503K)
- Download results letter in French (PDF, 501K)
- Download results letter in Gujarati (PDF, 502K)
- Download results letter in Polish (PDF, 513K)
- Download results letter in Portuguese (PDF, 501K)
- Download results letter in Punjabi (PDF, 503K)
- Download results letter in Russian (PDF, 552K)
- Download results letter in Somali (PDF, 496K)
- Download results letter in Spanish (PDF, 499K)
- Download results letter in Urdu (PDF, 549K)
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