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Official Statistics

Children’s public health nursing: workforce and activity, 2025

Official statistics in development on healthy child programme activity, school nursing services and associated workforces in England in 2025.

Applies to England

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Children's public health nursing, 2025: data tables

Details

These statistics cover:

  • the number of people working in health visiting and school nursing teams
  • activity carried out under the healthy child programme, including:
    • statutory health and development reviews for children aged 0 to 5 years
    • non-statutory targeted reviews
    • school nursing activity

The data is based on returns from 145 local councils in England.

Updates to this page

Published 17 September 2026
Last updated 17 September 2026 Show all updates
  1. Updated with correct graph for ‘Figure 8: percentage of new birth reviews carried out at home or in a clinic or family hub in each region in England, 2025’. The originally published version was duplicated in error from figure 6 (for antenatal visits).

  2. First published.

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