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Quarterly live births, stillbirths, maternities and stillbirth rates by gestational age, age of mother, ethnicity, and area deprivation, for England and Wales.
National safeguarding practice review into the death of baby Victoria Marten.
The independent report on the review of social work professional regulation in England.
Summary of the key evidence and context that has informed the development of the Child Poverty Strategy.
Statistics on the number and percentage of children living in deep material poverty for financial year ending 2024.
Findings from the 2025 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
The terms of reference and panel membership for the Child Poverty Expert Child Poverty Expert Analytical Panel (CP-EAP).
Provides the government’s current best estimate of the future low income poverty trends for children based on the policy position and economic assumptions after Spring Statement 2026.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2026.
Most popular first names for baby girls and boys in 2025 using birth registration data.
An analysis of children’s social care sufficiency in England.
Annual January statistics on children under 5 registered for government funded entitlements in England, and on providers and staff delivering them.
Quarterly statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to March 2026.
Research reports of the results from the childcare and early years provider pulse surveys.
Schools’ experiences of opening new or expanded nursery provision funded by the school-based nursery capital grant.
Quarterly and annual data about outcomes for children at 2 to 2 and a half years as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3 (ASQ-3).
Quarterly and annual data sets about the number and proportion of infants who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks.
Quarterly and annual data about health visits to pregnant women, children and their families during pregnancy and early childhood.
This provides an overview of the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland and contains information up to the quarter ending March 2026.
The changing composition of families over time, comparing the fertility of those of the same age and the number of children they have had.
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