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  • Annual update covering educational outcomes, school readiness for communication, language and literacy and homelessness for families and young people.

  • Annual datasets and commentary for local authority health visits to pregnant women, children and their families during pregnancy and early childhood. This release is for Quarters 1 to 4 of 2018 to 2019.

  • Current evidence about the relationship between dental caries and obesity in individuals and populations.

  • Ofsted uses questionnaires to capture views about social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools and living with foster carers and adopters.

  • Quarterly statistics on the progress of the Child Support Agency (CSA) child support schemes to March 2019.

  • Quarterly statistics on the progress of the Child Support Agency (CSA) child support schemes to June 2019.

  • This exploratory study investigates the steps that parents, local authorities and schools take in order to move children from secondary school to home education.

  • Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.

  • A report on wellbeing in children and young people including psychological health in teenage girls.

  • An independent report by former Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Professor Dame Sally Davies.

  • Reports on the uptake of the seasonal influenza vaccine and predictors of uptake in children of primary school age.

  • This annual publication details statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland

  • This report evaluates the extent to which the inspection of local authority children’s services (ILACS) framework has been implemented as intended.

  • Quarterly experimental statistics on the Child Maintenance Service, data to June 2019.

  • These statistics provide information about families using Tax-Free Childcare.

  • The number of children who lived in households where a parent or guardian claimed an out-of-work benefit at 31 May 2017.

  • This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter and the number of child protection referrals received during the quarter.

  • Trends in hospital admissions of children and young people for mental health conditions, and as a result of self-harm, by age group and local authority.

  • Number and proportion of infants who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks after birth.

  • Quarterly and annual local authority metrics on outcomes for children at 2 to 2 and a half years as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3 (ASQ-3).