Tam Fry, chair of the Child Growth Foundation, said other teachers, such as physical education teachers or those delivering personal, social and health education, could easily be trained how to measure children as the Government looks to reintroduce annual checks across schools in England and Wales.
He was speaking after reports suggested that the Government hoped to start running pilot schemes in Autumn 2006.
Although the Department of Health declined to set a date for the scheme's introduction, it confirmed it was in discussions with the Department for Education and Skills about how it would work.
The move comes two months after a senior official at the Department of Health revealed that the Government wanted to introduce annual checks (Children Now, 12-18 January). Fry welcomed the move and said: "This is what we should be doing to protect children. I always find it amazing that the people there to protect children don't always seem to be able to do it."
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