The Child Health Equity Framework was developed as part of the Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC): a partnership between the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), Barnardo’s and three Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), Birmingham and Solihull, Cheshire and Merseyside, and South Yorkshire, which ran from 2023 until 2025.
The collective learning from the CHEC programme has been used to develop a Child Health Equity Readiness tool, designed to support Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and other ICS organisations to reflect on their readiness to:
1. Address the social determinants of health
2. Reduce health inequalities among children and young people
3. Improve child health equity
It is intended that the information from this tool will support your ICB to make equity informed investment decisions about the health of babies, children and young people and their social determinants.