SA Govt considers weighing school kids
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Weigh schoolchildren proposal in SA (ABC TV: File photo)
The prospect has been raised of weighing children at school as part of a healthy eating program in South Australia.
The SA Opposition says a Health Promotion Branch briefing has made it clear that children are to be weighed at school, without the children or their parents knowing the results.
But SA Health Minister John Hill says no decision has been made.
He says proof will be needed that the idea has merit.
The Minister says, if children are weighed, it will be done privately and sensitively.
"Certainly if we were to weigh children we wouldn't have a list of children that anybody could inspect," he said.
"It would be information that would go to that particular family, which I assume would enable them to monitor how successful the programs were in relation to that particular child."
