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ECHILD is a national data resource linking together data from hospitals, schools and social care services for children in England. We’re using these data to understand how education affects children’s health, and how health affects children’s education. Learn more.
ECHILD stands for Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data. The ECHILD project is a research study run by University College London that joins together existing health, education and social care information for all children in England for the first time.
The ECHILD research database joins together existing health, education and social care information for all children in England for the first time.
Current Research studies using ECHILD. The HOPE Study - (Health Outcomes of young People throughout Education) Inequalities in early health, skills and socio-economic disadvantage. Variation in special educational needs provision for children with Down Syndrome.
ECHILD is led by University College London in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and in partnership with NHS England, the Department for Education and the Office for National Statistics.
11 lis 2021 · The Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) Database is a linkable collection of longitudinal, administrative datasets from the domains of health, education and social care for a whole population-based cohort of children and young people in England.
27 sie 2024 · What is ECHILD? ECHILD consists of several, linked data resources covering all of England. The core datasets are the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and National Pupil Database (NPD). These cover, respectively, all English NHS-funded hospital contacts and all enrolments in English state schools.
