Children and Young People

This section covers information relating to children and young people and is divided into four areas:

Health Factors – physical health, mental health and emotional wellbeing, A&E attendances and hospital admissions, accidents and injuries, oral health, screening and vaccinations, and under 18 conceptions;
Lifestyle Factors – alcohol, diet and nutrition, drugs, gambling, healthy weight, physical activity, and smoking and vaping;
Pregnancy and Infants – pregnancy and maternal health, births and infant health, breastfeeding, smoking in pregnancy, and stillbirths and infant mortality; and
Child Development – early years and good child development (school readiness), and Hull’s Early Help and Prevention Programme.

Children and Young People Health Factors

Other main menu headings which relate to the entire population also includes some information relating to children and young people:

Information relating to good child development is within Early Years and Good Child Development under Child Development, and the majority of information within Schools, Education and Qualifications relates to children and young people.

Vulnerable Groups includes some information which is mainly related to children and young people for Children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities, Learning Disabilities and Looked After Children and Care Leavers. Also within Vulnerable Groups, there are a number of topics which include information on both children and adults and these include Carers and Gender Identity and LGBTQ+. There is a little information specifically on percentage of households with children who are in temporary accommodation and unaccompanied asylum seeking children aged under 18 years within the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities Inclusion Health dashboard which can be found within Inclusion Health, and also some information relating to children and young people on the Migrant Health both within Vulnerable Groups.

Further information is available within Hull’s Young People Health and Wellbeing Surveys which includes detailed reports and the questionnaires. Information relating to local qualitative research conducted with young people can be found under Other Local Surveys and Qualitative Research and full reports under Surveys within Tools and Resources.