Primary schools should inform parents if their children are overweight or obese, an influential group of MPs said on Thursday.
Failure to do so would result in the parents being kept "in the dark about possible serious health risks to their children," the Committee of Public Accounts warned in a report entitled "Tackling Child Obesity - First Steps."
How the information will be presented to the parents will be up to the Department of Health to decide, the report added.
However, the department, which has been against providing such information in the past because of fears over a child's stigmatization and bullying, has yet to settle on the best method.
Information on four and 11-year-olds has already been gathered as part of the department's weighing and measuring program begun last summer.
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