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.
Drawing on our learning, we developed the Child Health Equity Monitoring Framework which consists of a key set of indicators aligned with the Child Health Equity Framework. The Monitoring Framework is designed to help local health and care systems track progress and take action on child health inequalities. The Monitoring Framework is accompanied by a complementary report entitled ‘What good child health equity data looks like and how the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector can contribute’. The report seeks to provide an overview of what constitutes good data on child health equity, why having good data matters and the role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in contributing to this.
Our aim is to support collaboration across organisations and sectors and therefore encourages more joined-up action to ensure that efforts to improve child health and reduce inequalities are better coordinated and more effective.