There are 30 Children's Centres in Wiltshire and their main purpose is to provide support for parents, carers and their under 5's so that all children can be happy, healthy and achieve great things in life.

Wiltshire's Children's Centre Factsheets bring together local intelligence on population & inequality, health & wellbeing and childhood obesity in one cohesive resource for each children's centre. The factsheets for each children's centre, and maps for each indicator defined by children's centre area, can be downloaded below.

For further information on Wiltshire Children's Centres click here.

Childrens Centre Maps

 

 

 

For further information on the data provided in the factsheets please contact:

Simon Hodsdon, Public Health Intelligence Officer, NHS Wiltshire     Simon.Hodsdon@wiltshire.gov.uk

2011-12 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 2011/12.  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 42 to 46 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 both Reception and Year 6 (7.4% and 15.9% respectively).

• In Reception Wiltshire had the 3rd lowest percentage of obese children out of the 14 PCT areas in the South West and for the first time a statistically significantly lower percentage of obese children than the South West.

• Wiltshire had a statistically significantly lower percentage of overweight and obese children combined than both the South West and England in both Reception and Year 6 (20.3% and 29.6% respectively).

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

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

• No changes in Wiltshire figures between 2010/11 and 2011/12 are statistically significant.

At a national level, as in previous years, a strong positive relationship existed between deprivation and obesity prevalence for children in each age group.  The obesity prevalence among Reception year children attending schools in areas in the least deprived decile was 6.8% compared with 12.3% among those attending schools in areas in the most deprived decile.  Similarly, obesity prevalence among Year 6 children attending schools in areas in the least deprived decile was 13.7% compared with 24.3% among those attending schools in areas in the most deprived decile.

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

The National Obesity Observatory has produced an interactive atlas to explore the NCMP figures and other obesity related data: http://www.sepho.org.uk/noo/NCMP/single/atlas.html

NCMP 2010-11 Small 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 2008/09 to 2010/11 NCMP data for Wiltshire by Community Area, Children's Centre, deprivation and gender.

NCMP Community Area Information Pack

This datapack is designed to supplement the information provided in the NCMP 2010-11 Small Area Analysis. It contains all the Wiltshire NCMP data from 2007/08 to 2010/11 inclusive, presented as four interactive spreadsheets:

• Spine Chart -  allowing users to view a spine chart of all indicators for each Community Area.
• Bar Chart - allowing users to look at a specific indicator, and to compare the data across Community Areas.
• Scatter Plot - allowing users to explore the correlation between any 2 indicators by Community Area.
• Trend Chart - allowing users to explore the trends over time for a Community Area for a single indicator.

Please note the interactive spreadsheet will not function unless Excel macros are enabled. Also note this is a beta version of the datapack not a final release.

For further information on the data provided in these documents please contact:

Tom Frost, Public Health Scientist, NHS Wiltshire    Tom.Frost@wiltshire.gov.uk

For general information on the NCMP and childhood obesity programmes in Wiltshire please contact:

Mike Jones, Health Promotion, NHS Wiltshire          Mike.Jones@wiltshire.gov.uk

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

 

This survey funded by NHS Wiltshire involved 2330 children from 32 Wiltshire schools.  The results include information about a wide range of topics from how much pocket money children get and what they spend it on, to people they would turn to if they had concerns or problems.

The results confirm that Wiltshire is largely a healthy county and we continue to see various long term positive trends as well as highlighting some areas for further improvement.

This year, as well as the main summary, there are 3 additional summary reports to help further analyse our local data (Emotional wellbeing, Smoking, alcohol and other drug use & Healthy Weight).  All reports and the data tables can be accessed here.

Some notable points:

• Significantly more primary children in Wiltshire eat fresh fruit than nationally.

• We have seen a continued decline in young people using all drugs, with significant recent falls in secondary age pupils reporting excessive drinking (significantly lower drunkenness than the national sample).

• There has been an increase (by 7%) of secondary school pupils who feel that their school takes bullying seriously since 2008.

• Fear of bullying amongst primary school pupils (year 6) has risen by 6% since 2008 (higher than the national sample) although bullying incidents haven’t (they have fallen slightly) and are lower than the national comparison sample.

• Wiltshire Secondary school pupils are less likely to know about sexual health services near to them, than the national sample.

• Time spent by Year 8s playing computer games for more than 3 hours in the evening before the survey has doubled to 31% since 2008.

• More primary school children worry about family problems and are less likely to clean their teeth than a national sample.

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.

A Child Health Profile has been developed for each local authority in England.  These provide a snapshot of child health and well-being in each local area in March 2013.  They are designed to help improve health and well-being outcomes for children and tackle inequalities by giving easy to digest information about the current picture in the local area.

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 local authority.

The Wiltshire profile for 2013 is available to download:

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.