Healthy Child Wales Programme (contacts with children): October to December 2024
Healthy Child Wales Programme is a universal health programme for all families with children aged 0 to 7 for October to December 2024.
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Overall, 85.1% of eligible children received a Healthy Child Wales contact in the quarter October to December 2024, this is an increase of 4.3% on the previous quarter continuing a long-term upward trend and is the highest quarter on record.
Figure 1: Quarterly Healthy Child Wales Programme contact completion rate, October 2016 to December 2024
Description of Figure 1: A line chart which shows that the percentage of contacts completed has steadily increased for the most part since the start of programme.
Source: National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD)
A higher percentage of eligible children received contacts than in the previous quarter for all of the 9 contact points, and the contacts at 8,12 and 16 weeks, 6, 15 and 27 months and 3.5 years set new record highs.
The contact point at 3.5 years continued to increase this quarter to 78.0%, 3.0 percentage points up on the previous quarter, an increase of 15.7 percentage points on the same quarter last year, and 42.9 percentage points on the first quarter for which there is comparable data (October to December 2016).
Contact details
Statistician: Annie Campbell
Email: stats.healthinfo@gov.wales
Media: 0300 025 8099