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Main points

Overall, 87.5% of eligible children received a Healthy Child Wales contact in the quarter April to June 2025, this is a decrease of 0.4 percentage points on the previous quarter.

Figure 1: quarterly Healthy Child Wales Programme contact completion rate, October 2016 to June 2025 [Note 1]

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Description of figure 1: line chart showing the percentage of contacts completed has steadily increased for the most part since the start of programme.

Source: National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD)

[Note 1] Eligible children includes children defined as receiving Flying Start services and not receiving Flying Start using their Flying Start postcode.

Healthy Child Wales Programme: percentage of eligible children with recorded contacts, by quarter and local health board (StatsWales) 

A higher percentage of eligible children received contacts than in the previous quarter for the contact points at 8 weeks, 12 weeks and 3.5 years, with each of these contacts setting new record highs.

Contact details

Community and population health statistics
Email: stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Media: 0300 025 8099