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Core Aim 3: Health and safeguards

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Children and young people’s well-being monitor

2008 Children and Young People’s Well-being Monitor for Wales
Published on 20 November 2008
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Data sources available on children and young people to support monitoring of Core Aim 3.




Core Aim 3 requires that every child and young person enjoys the best possible physical and mental, social and emotional health, including freedom from abuse, victimisation and exploitation. There are a range of data sources relevant to this core aim - including both physical and emotional well being.

Abortion Statistics

05/03/12
The Department of Health publishes abortion statistics annually.
 

Welsh Child Protection Registers

05/03/12
The information for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is primarily data from Welsh Child Protection Registers but is also taken from English/UK sources where appropriate.
 

Welsh Health Survey

05/03/12
The Welsh Health Survey covers around 3,000 children (under 16) a year asking about the general health, health-related lifestyle and service use of children.
 

Teenage Pregnancy Statistics

05/03/12
The figures for England and Wales about teenage pregnancies are produced by the Office for National Statistics.
 

NHS Community Contraception Statistics

05/03/12
Summary data on community contraceptive services provided by clinics in Wales.
 

British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) surveys

05/03/12
The BASCD surveys have provided a longitudinal perspective on the changing oral health of children since the first national survey was conducted in 1985/1986 for 5 year old children.
 

Suicide statistics

06/09/11
The Office of National Statistics shows the latest data on numbers and rates of adult suicides in the UK from 1991 onwards.
 

NHS Maternity Statistics

20/05/11
Summary data on maternity statistics focusing on method of delivery. The source of the data is hospital in-patient data and the profile of deliveries is available. Information on age of mother is available.
 

Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)

01/10/09
The HBSC 2005-06 survey, published in June 2008, contains data from 41 countries and regions in Europe and North America. The Welsh Assembly Government, together with research teams from other participant countries, works in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for ...
 

Coverage of Vaccination Evaluation Rapidly (COVER)

01/10/09
The immunisation data is extracted by the National Public Health Service for Wales from the National Community Child Health Database. The COVER (Coverage of Vaccination Evaluation Rapidly) report is published annually and quarterly.
 

Substance misuse statistics

01/10/09
The Department for Social Justice and Local Government publishes statistics on substance misuse services in Wales. The main source of the data is the Welsh National Database for Substance Misuse held by Health Solutions Wales.
 

HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections Trends in Wales Report

01/10/09
The National Public Health Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre along with the Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinics look into the number of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) treated in Wales. They produce an annual report called HIV and STI trends in Wales report clarifying the da ...