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Asthma Children CVD Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease

Time to take action on asthma

By Asthma UK (2014)

The report presents an overview of a survey of more than 6500 people on the quality of asthma care across the UK. A briefing on children’s care is available alongside it.

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Children Commissioning CYP Healthcare Finance Licensing Local Government Planning Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners

Transfer of 0-5 children's public health commissioning to local authorities

By Department of Health (2014)

The document sets out the proposed funding allocations for local authorities for the commissioning of children’s 0-5 public health services from 1 October 2015 to 31 March 2016.

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Children Library Local Government

Tackling poor oral health in children: local government's public health role

By Local Government Association (2014)

This briefing sets out the policy context, local government’s role, case studies, ideas for success and key questions to ask when assessing local oral health improvement delivery.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Sexual Exploitation Sexual Health

Sexual exploitation of children: Ofsted thematic report

By Ofsted (2014)

This thematic inspection was commissioned to evaluate the effectiveness of local authorities’ current response to child sexual exploitation. The report draws on evidence from inspection and case examination in eight local authorities and from the views of children and young people, parents, carers, practitioners and managers.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Implementation study: integrated review at age 2 to 2-and-a-half years – integrating the early years foundation stage progress check and the healthy child programme health and development review

By Department for Education (2014)

A report looking at different approaches to integrating the EYFS progress check at age 2 with the HCP health review at age 2 to 2-and-a-half years.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Well-Being

Child health profiles

By Public Health England (2014)

Using the same indicators as Child Health Profiles (published for each local authority), we have developed a new way of looking at national trends in issues affecting child health and wellbeing.

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Children Healthy Settings Obesity Young People

Healthy patterns for healthy families: removing the hurdles to a healthy family

By The All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood (2014)

This is the first report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood which aims to develop practical policies to reduce the scale of childhood obesity by engaging with a wide variety of interests and experts in the sector.

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Children CYP Healthcare Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Poverty Young People

At what cost? exposing the impact of poverty on school life

By The Children’s Commission on Poverty (2014)

This report explains what school life is like for children living in poverty and sets out urgent changes that the Children’s Commission on Poverty recommends so that no child is isolated, stigmatised or excluded from opportunities at school.

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Children CYP Healthcare Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Young People

The good childhood report

By The Children’s Society (August 2014)

The latest report from The Children’s Society’s nine-year programme of research on children’s well-being provides new insights into how children in the UK feel about their lives, how this is changing over time and how they compare with children in other countries.

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Child Protection Children CYP Healthcare Exploitation Safeguarding Sexual Health Young People

Understanding the sexual exploitation of boys and young men: a UK scoping study summary of findings

By Barnardo’s et al (August 2014)

This research explores the ways in which boys and young men are being sexually exploited, whether boy’s experiences and support needs are different to girls and what services are currently available for boys and young men.

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