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  • Independent reports on the delivery of children’s services from the Secretary of State’s Children’s Services Commissioner in Herefordshire.

  • An independent report on the progress and performance of Sandwell Children’s Trust and children’s services.

  • 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.

  • First annual monitoring and evaluation report of the ‘Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty’ UK-wide Child Poverty Strategy 2025.

  • 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.