# The National Child Measurement Programme Regulations 2008, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations which apply only to England are made under the National Health Service Act 2006 (“the Act”). They provide for the functions of the Secretary of State under paragraph 7A(1) and (2) of the Act, to make arrangements with local education authorities and proprietors of independent schools to provide for the weighing and measuring of children in schools, to be exercisable by Primary Care Trusts. The Regulations make provision for the gathering and further processing of information under the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) (an annual programme under which Primary Care Trusts weigh and measure children in schools).
Regulation 1 includes definitions of parent (which includes carers) and relevant child (defined as a child in reception year or year 6).
Regulation 2 provides for the functions of the Secretary of State under paragraph 7A(1) and (2) of the Act to be exercisable by Primary Care Trusts. It specifies the children whose height and weight information may be gathered and further processed for the purposes of the NCMP as all relevant children who are able and willing to stand unaided to be measured and weighed, other than those who have been withdrawn from the NCMP by their parents. It also specifies the manner in which the information is to be gathered.
Regulation 3 makes provision for parents to have an opportunity to “opt-out” their child from the NCMP.
Regulation 4 sets out the purposes for which information gathered under the Regulations may be further processed. Those purposes are: the release of height and weight information, together with related advisory material, to the parent of a child who has participated in the NCMP; providing advice to such a parent in relation to such information; and, the release of such information, in a form in which an individual child cannot be identified, to relevant health professionals and other persons under similar obligations of confidence where making the information available is required for surveillance, research, monitoring or audit (including research into the causes and effects of weight related problems and the facilities and treatments which might be made available to such persons) and the planning of health services.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3080/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-child-measurement-programme-regulations-2008/note
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