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Children’s public health 0 to 5 years: national reporting

This guidance provides local authority analysts with the technical detail they need to submit aggregate data to the central system.

Updates to this page

From:
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Published:
27 June 2018
Last updated:
4 August 2026
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  1. Added guidance to cover the 2026 to 2027 data collection, and removed guidance for previous years.

  2. Added guidance to cover the 2025 to 2026 data collection, and removed guidance for previous years.

  3. Added guidance to cover the 2024 to 2025 data collection.

  4. Reporting period dates updated and information about the future of the interim reporting solution added. ASQ-3 domain threshold scores added back into the definitions of indicators C6iii to C6vii.

  5. Added 'Interim national reporting process for the universal health visiting service: full guidance for local authority members of staff 2022 to 2023'.

  6. Added 2021 to 2022 version.

  7. Added guidance for 2020 to 2021 data collection.

  8. Added information update for upcoming PHE statistics release.

  9. Added the date of the extended data collection window.

  10. Added notification that the national interim reporting system, suspended in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will restart on 21 September 2020 with a revised timetable.

  11. Added 2019 to 2020 version of the guidance.

  12. First published.

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Interim data submission for the universal health visiting service: 2026 to 2027

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This document explains what analysts and commissioners in your local authority need to do to submit health visiting activity and outcomes data to the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). It should give your local team, including your service providers, the technical detail they need to assemble and submit aggregate health visiting data to the central system.

If you have any questions or suggestions, contact us at interimreporting@dhsc.gov.uk.

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