Guidance published in January set out plans to check children once whenthey are four or five years old and again when they are 10 or 11. Theinformation was only to be used to track government performance onreducing obesity and help health authorities target local action.
But in a U-turn, described by England's children's commissioner as a"knee-jerk reaction", the Government now intends to inform parents oftheir children's body mass index results, having once rejected theidea.
A spokesman for the children's commissioner warned that body mass indexwas a very crude measurement that could give parents an inaccurate ideaof children's health.
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