Guidance

National Child Measurement Programme: school feedback letters

Updated 25 October 2024

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To support schools’ continued engagement in the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), promoting healthy growth in children, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) produces bespoke school-level child overweight and obesity prevalence data - known as school feedback letters - for each school that participates in the programme.

The school feedback letters aim to promote the value of NCMP data collection and provide an opportunity for public health teams, healthy school leads and school nurses to engage schools in action to promote healthy growth and wellbeing at a whole school level, as well as facilitating conversations about what else schools can do on this agenda.

The letters pack includes:

  • a bespoke data letter - this includes non-identifiable aggregated NCMP data relating to: 
    • school and England participation rates 
    • school, local authority and England overweight and obesity prevalence rates
  • an editable template cover letter - this signposts to national healthy growth resources to support schools and can be tailored to include details of local healthy schools and family-based healthy lifestyle offers
  • a metadata document - this explains the methods used to produce the data letter and is intended for use by local authority public health teams. This does not need to be sent to schools and is for information only, though schools may be sent this document if they have any questions related to how the data has been analysed
  • a school address list - this can be used to mail merge addresses to the cover letter or address labels

These are available to local authority public health teams for their own use and to share with schools in their area.

The 2024 version is the latest available for each school that took part in the 2022 to 2023 programme.

Request a bespoke school feedback data letter and supporting documents

If you are a local authority NCMP lead, NCMP provider, school nurse, healthy schools lead or public health data analyst and would like to access your local school level NCMP data and supporting documents, email ncmp@dhsc.gov.uk. You will be sent an access link and instructions on how to download the letters for your local authority.

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