2010-11 Analysis

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is an annual programme which measures the height and weight of children in Reception Year (aged 4-5 years) and Year 6 (aged 10-11 years) within state maintained schools.

The attachment below summarises the Wiltshire NCMP data for 2010/11.  Comparisons are made with previous years and the South West and England and the Vital Signs targets where applicable.

Navigation of the worksheet is by use of the links on the contents page and the "return to contents page" link in cell A1 on each sheet.

The raw data is presented in tables in the "Data" sheet at the end of the workbook.  Please do not use the "table data" sheet as this is specifically to feed the graphs and therefore not user friendly.  The "data" sheet contains commentary in rows 32 to 36 for each statistic explaining the changes and how Wiltshire compares and highlighting any statistically significant results - a shortened version appears on each graph.

 The headlines are:

• Wiltshire had a statistically significantly lower percentage of obese children than England in 2010/11 in both Reception and Year 6 (8.0% and 16.4% respectively).

• In Reception Wiltshire had the 2^nd lowest percentage of obese children out of the 14 PCT areas in the South West.

• In Reception, Wiltshire's percentage of healthy weight children is statistically significantly higher than England and the South West in 2010/11.

• In Year 6, Wiltshire percentage of healthy weight children is statistically significantly higher than England.

• No changes in Wiltshire figures between 2009/10 and 2010/11 are statistically significant.

The national NCMP report and data tables are available from the Information Centre website.

2009-10 Community Area Analysis

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is an annual programme which measures the height and weight of children in Reception Year (aged 4-5 years) and Year 6 (aged 10-11 years) within state maintained schools.

This report details the analysis of the 2009/10 NCMP data for Wiltshire at Community Area level and the comparison of the 2009/10 figures against the 2007/08 and 2008/09 figures.

The Child Poverty Bill 2010 sets in law the governments commitment to eradicate child poverty by 2020. Under the bill, local authorities will be required to undertake a local child poverty needs assessment and produce a local child poverty strategy. Wiltshire's  2011 assessment can be downloaded below and information on the consultation on the Reducing Child Poverty Strategy 2011-2014 can be accessed here.

The Local index of Child Well-being (CWI) 2009 compares perceived child well-being at lower super output area (LSOAs) geographies. The CWI is a combination of seven domains and was created to meet requests for data similar to the Indices of Deprivation for children and young people. The data used in the CWI 2009 report is mainly from 2004 to 2006 and so caution should be taken in using the information. A report comparing Wiltshire LSOAs is provided below.

In October 2010, NHS Wiltshire conducted a Vulnerable Families Survey by asking Health Visitors to complete a survey form on every family in their caseload. They were asked to report on 34 different factors and data was collected on almost 20,000 families.

Two reports based on data from this survey have been revised and re-issued since it has come to light that one GP practice was assigned to the incorrect health visiting team.

Overall Report: An overview of all the information (Revised June 2011)

Health Visitor Team Report: Analysis of data by Health Visitor Teams (Revised June 2011)

Community Area Report: Analysis of data according to Wiltshire’s 20 Community Area

 

The Children and Young People's Substance Misuse Needs Assessment for Wiltshire aims to examine what needs and harms exist within different groups and make evidence-based and ethical decisions on how needs might be most effectively met within available resources. The assessment is used to inform the Wiltshire Children and Young People's Substance Misuse Strategy.

The Childcare Act 2006 placed a duty on local authorities to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the provision of sufficient childcare to meet the requirements of parents in their area in order to enable them to work or undertake education or training leading to work. Authorities were required to undertake an assessment of sufficiency in their areas, and the assessment for Wiltshire can be accessed by clicking here.

The Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat) has produced a Child Health Profile for each top level local authority in England. Each profile is available as a 4-page PDF report which can be easily downloaded and printed.  Updated annually, each report includes a snapshot of performance against 32 selected indicators compared with the rest of England; analysis and key findings about the situation in each top level local authority and a summary of performance for each local authority in the region.

Here is Wiltshire’s profile

The Department for Work and Pensions commissioned a report into the poverty gap among children in the UK. The purpose of this paper is to use poverty gap analysis to explore the depth of poverty experienced by children of low-income families in the UK.