Introduction
The child and maternal health profiles offer a range of publicly available data on child and maternal health:
- reports
- tools
- other resources
Indicators can appear in more than one topic in the profiles. As new data becomes available, the indicators are updated.
Local organisations can work together to plan and commission evidence-based services depending on their local needs. The tool allows comparison between local populations to identify other areas to learn from. For each local authority this includes the 'closest 4' children's services statistical neighbours. These are defined by the Local Area Interactive Tool(LAIT).
How to find the indicators
The content of the child and maternal health profiles follows these sections:
Contact us
For enquiries or feedback relating to the child and maternal health profiles, email childandmaternalintelligence@dhsc.gov.uk.
If your enquiry or feedback is about the oral health indicators, email DentalPHIntelligence@dhsc.gov.uk.
Your Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) can give you more information about health in your area. To contact them by email, please use the links below.
Recent updates
March 2024
This release updates indicators on child mortality, injuries on the roads, children in care, hospital admissions and accident and emergency attendances, educational attainment, pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs, and teenage mothers.
The following indicators had the back series revised to use the ONS 2021 census based mid-year population estimates from 2012 onwards:
- Hospital admissions for asthma (under 19 years)
- Hospital admissions for mental health conditions
- Hospital admissions as a result of self-harm (various ages)
- Hospital admissions due to substance misuse (15 to 24 years)
- Hospital admissions for dental caries (0 to 5 years)
Three indicators are being discontinued as part of this update:
- Looked after children aged <5: Rate per 10,000 population aged <5
- Looked after children aged 10-15
- Children on child protection plans: Rate per 10,000 children <18
Age breakdowns have been introduced for the children in care indicator, so the two separate looked after children indicators are no longer required. Feedback has indicated that indicators about children in care (looked-after children) were more important to users than those about children with child protection plans.
An issue was found with the 2020 to 2022 data for the 'Infant mortality rate' indicator, and has now been corrected.
February 2024
This release updates indicators relating to adult social care and school readiness
Since publication of the 2022 to 2023 breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks data in November 2023 an issue has been identified with the data for Rochdale. This has now been corrected.
Following user feedback the combined neonatal and stillbirth rate indicator has been discontinued. The indicator continues to be available in the NHS Outcomes Framework. Information about neonatal mortality and stillbirths also remains available in the Fingertips tool as separate indicators.
December 2023
A technical anomaly has been identified for 2022 to 2023 data which meant that a rounding issue has resulted in an error of one decimal place in the value and confidence intervals which are displayed in Fingertips. The indicators affected were the six child development indicators, the five health visiting indicators and the breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks indicator. This error has now been corrected.
An error identified with the data for financial year 2018 to 2019 child development indicators published in Fingertips was corrected on Tuesday 5 December 2023. The error affects England versions. It does not affect the data published on GOV.UK. The error is to the counts and rates for:
- ‘percentage of children achieving a good level of development’ contains the data on personal-social skills
- ‘percentage of children achieving the expected level in communication skills’ contains the data on overall development
- ‘percentage of children achieving the expected level in gross-motor skills’ contains the data on communication skills
- ‘percentage of children achieving the expected level in fine-motor skills’ contains the data on gross motor skills
- ‘percentage of children achieving the expected level in problem solving skills’ contains the data on fine motor skills
- ‘percentage of children achieving the expected level in personal-social skills’ contains the data on problem solving skills
November 2023
The indicators covering the following topics have been updated with the most recent data:
- persistent absentees in primary and secondary schools
- average attainment 8 score of children in care
- school pupils with special educational needs (SEN)
- free school meals uptake
- children’s public health 0 to 5 years indicators for: breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks, health visiting services and child development at 2 to 2 and a half years
Following user feedback, key stage 1 and 2 indicators have been discontinued. The data remains available from the Department for Education.
