Parents are set to receive fat reports on the health of their children in a move which will inevitably anger some mums and dads.

Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) will record the statistics of children as young as four and then map them on a chart from ‘underweight’ to ‘very overweight’.

Specialist advice about diet and exercise will also be included in the letters, which will be sent to parents as their children start and finish school.

Is it yet another example of the authorities sticking their noses in and telling us how to run our lives?

Or is it a necessary means to sorting out a — quite literally — ballooning problem as our youngsters are getting fatter?

Perhaps it makes sense when you walk along Cornmarket Street on Saturday and see the amount of children shovelling junk food down their necks.

The PCT is trying to do something about the problem.

They are not likely to wind up on many Christmas card lists as a result, but who cares?

I would imagine the only people to get wound up by this are those who neglect their kids' health anyway.

It is time for the community to take even more responsibility for raising our youngsters.