A Freedom of Information request by the Children’s Society has revealed that despite Government guidance stipulating that health services and local authorities supply children’s centres with data on new births, 47 per cent of councils fail to do so on a monthly basis.
Almost 10 per cent of local authorities said they provide live birth data to children’s centres quarterly or annually, while more than a third revealed they have not shared data at all at local level.
The findings published in a new report by the charity, ‘The right start: how to access families from birth and support early intervention’, reveal six in ten local authorities do not provide the information because they are unable to obtain the data from local health services.
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