Child and maternal health statistics
Statistics and supporting information to help improve decision making when planning services for pregnant women, children, young people and families.
The Office for Health and Improvement and Disparities (OHID) publishes various statistics and intelligence resources about child and maternal health. They give data at local, regional and national level to inform the development and provision of health improvement and prevention activities and NHS services.
See also guidance on Child and maternal health data and intelligence: guide for health professionals.
Breastfeeding
See the Breastfeeding statistics page for current, earlier and archived statistics, as well as guidance and research on breastfeeding.
Pregnancy and birth
The Pregnancy and birth topic on the Child and maternal health section of OHID’s Fingertips data tool brings together data on factors related to conception, pregnancy and delivery, including breastfeeding indicators.
Health visitor service delivery
The Early years topic on the Child and maternal health section of OHID’s Fingertips data tool brings together indicators about health visiting services.
The data was collected through an interim reporting system, Children’s public health 0 to 5 years: national reporting, set up to collect health visiting activity data at a local authority resident level. Data is submitted by local authorities on a voluntary basis.
The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) will be used as the basis for these metrics in the longer term, once the data quality has reached a suitable quality.
Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years
The Early years topic on the Child and maternal health section of OHID’s Fingertips data tool brings together indicators on several themes.
The metrics provide local authority data on outcomes for children aged 2 to 2 and a half years, as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3 (ASQ-3). The source data for these metrics is the interim reporting system, Children’s public health 0 to 5 years: national reporting.
The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) will be used as the basis for these metrics in the longer term, once the data quality has reached a suitable quality.
Child and maternal health profiles
The Child and maternal health section of the Fingertips tool brings together indicators of child health for local government and NHS areas across several different topics.
User engagement
We welcome feedback on the child and maternal health profiles to help us adapt to meeting the changing needs of users. Published results of recent user feedback activities are available below.
Earlier statistics and analysis
Older statistics published by Public Health England (PHE) are listed in the research and statistics calendar.
Data and commentaries for health visiting services for 2015 to 2016 are available at The National Archives website, alongside supporting information and guidance. You can find health visitor delivery metrics from before 2015 at the NHS England website.
Updates to this page
Published 28 February 2017Last updated 19 February 2025 + show all updates
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Added 'Child and maternal health profiles: December 2024 update' to the collection page.
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Added 'Perinatal mental health condition prevalence' to the collection.
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Updated to add 'Health visitor service delivery: data for 2024 to 2025' and 'Child development outcomes: data for 2024 to 2025'.
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Added 'Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: annual data April 2023 to March 2024' , 'Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: April 2023 to March 2024' and 'Health visitor service delivery metrics: April 2023 to March 2024' to the collection page.
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Added 'Child and maternal health profiles: May 2024 update' to the 'Overview and child health profiles' section.
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Added '2024 child health profiles' to the collection page.
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Added Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks: quarterly data for 2023 to 2024, Health visitor service delivery metrics: quarterly data for 2023 to 2024 and Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: quarterly data for 2023 to 2024 to the collection page.
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Added: Health visitor service delivery metrics: annual data April 2022 to March 2023; Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: annual data April 2022 to March 2023 and; Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: annual data April 2022 to March 2023.
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Added 'Child education: 2023 update' to the collection page.
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Added 'Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks: comparison of NHS England and OHID data' to the breastfeeding statistics section.
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Added 'Admissions for children with long-term conditions, emergency admissions and A&E attendance: 2023 update' and 'Indicators related to under 18 conceptions, pregnancy and birth: 2023 update' to the collection page.
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Added '2023 Child health profiles' to the collection page.
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Added 'Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: quarterly data for 2022 to 2023' to the collection.
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Added 'Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: quarterly data for 2022 to 2023' and 'Health visitor service delivery metrics experimental statistics: quarterly data for 2022 to 2023' to the collection page.
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Added 'Preconception health among migrant women in England' to the collection page.
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Added 'Child education: 2022 update' to the collection page.
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Added the following publications: 'Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: annual data 2021 to 2022', 'Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: annual data 2021 to 2022' and 'Health visitor service delivery metrics experimental statistics: annual data 2021 to 2022'.
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Added 'Vulnerability in infancy' to the early years section.
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Added 'Child health profiles: summary of feedback exercise 2021' and '2022 Child health profiles' to the collection page.
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Added the following 1 February publications to the collection page; Health visitor service delivery metrics experimental statistics, Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years, Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth.
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Added the following publications to the collection page; Child education: 2021 update, Health visitor service delivery metrics experimental statistics: annual data, Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: annual data and Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: annual data.
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Added link to Characteristics of women who stop smoking in pregnancy.
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Added School nursing activity and referrals in 2019 to 2020.
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Added 'Contacts other than those mandated and referrals by health visitors' to the Health visitor service delivery metrics section.
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Added 'Indicators related to under 18 conceptions, pregnancy and birth: 2021 update' and 'Admissions for children with long-term conditions, emergency admissions and A&E attendance: 2021 update' to the collection page.
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Added '2021 Child health profiles' to the collection page.
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Added 'Characteristics of children receiving universal health visitor reviews', 'Health visitor service delivery metrics experimental statistics: 2019 to 2020 annual data' and 'Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years experimental statistics: 2019 to 2020 data'.
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Added Child education and homelessness: 2020 update.
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Added 'Admissions for children with long-term conditions, emergency admissions and A&E attendance: 2020 update' and 'Indicators related to under 18 conceptions, pregnancy and birth: 2020 update'.
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Added 'Child education and homelessness: 2019 update' to the collection page.
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Added documents on breast feeding, health visitor delivery service metrics and child development outcomes.
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Added 'Child health profiles 2019'.
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Added 'School-age children profiles: 2018 update' and 'Young people profiles: 2018 update'.
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Added 'Early years profile: 2018 update'.
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Added 'Pregnancy and birth profiles: 2018 update'.
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Added 'child health profiles: summary of feedback exercise'.
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Added child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years metrics.
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Added 'School-age children profiles: 2017 update' and 'Young people profiles: 2017 update'.
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Added 'Early years profiles: 2017 update'.
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Added 'Pregnancy and birth profiles: 2017 update'.
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Added health service delivery metrics and link to new child and maternal health data and intelligence guidance
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