It follows warnings made at a Child Growth Foundation workshop that the checks could constitute an invasion of their privacy.
However Linda Oliver, clinical lead for health visitors and school nursing at Darlington Primary Care Trust, which is shortly to gather information from Year 6 pupils, denied children's privacy would be compromised.
Darlington was likely to ask for parents' and children's consent before starting checks, she added.
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