Children's Health

Children and Young People's Mental Health Needs Analysis

A Children and Young People's Mental Health Needs Analysis completed by Gloucestershire Public Health, supporting Gloucestershire’s Transformation Plan for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing.

CYP and Families Needs Assessment 2018 (PDF, 13.8 MB)

Healthy Eating

Research shows children who stay a healthy weight tend to be fitter, healthier, better able to learn, and more self-confident.

They're also much less likely to have health problems in later life. This report looks at healthy eating habits in Gloucestershire pupils and the wider impact on wellbeing healthy eating can bring using the Pupil Wellbeing survey.

Link to the one page Fact Sheet and Deep Dive Report on Diet and Healthy Eating

 Childhood Obesity

Reducing those living with obesity, particularly among children, is one of the priorities of the UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England). UK HSA aims to increase the proportion of children leaving primary school with a healthy weight contributing to the delivery of the government’s Childhood Obesity Plan.

Gloucestershire's National Childhood Measurement Programme Inequalities Report (located in the Deep Dives section on our Healthy Weight page) looks at changes in childhood obesity over time and social inequalities in levels of obesity. 

Exercise, Children and Young People

Link to the one page Fact Sheet and Deep Dive Report on Exercise

Oral health in Children

Tooth decay is largely preventable, yet the extraction of teeth due to decay remains the leading reason for a hospital admission among children aged 6–10 in England. 
 
The Oral Health in Children report analyses hospital-based tooth extractions among children and young people in Gloucestershire, focusing on trends over time, reasons for extraction (particularly dental decay), and differences by geography and deprivation.