ECHILD: Linking longitudinal data from health, education and social care (ONS Research Excellence Series 2025)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Series 2025 welcomes the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) project team, winners of the ONS Research Excellence Award - Secure Data Creation.  ECHILD is linking longitudinal data from health, education and social care to create a national resource for research in children and families.

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The ECHILD database includes linked records for around 20 million children and young people, which will be used to better understand how education affects children’s health and how health affects children’s education. It contains the National Pupil Database (including data on pupil and school characteristics, educational outcomes, and social care) linked to healthcare data. This includes Hospital Episode Statistics (admitted patient care, A&E, and outpatient care), birth notifications, maternity services data, mental health data and community services data. The database also contains linked health, education and social care data on the mothers of ECHILD cohort members through a mother-baby link. This enables researchers to investigate the effects of maternal exposures on children’s outcomes. Find out more.

Meet the presenter

Dr Katie Harron 

Katie is Professor of Statistics and Health Data Science at the University Collage London (UCL) Great Ormond Street (GOS) Institute of Child Health. Her research focuses on using data that are routinely collected from public services to generate evidence on the factors influencing child health and wellbeing. Katie leads the ECHILD Research Database, which links administrative data from health, education and children’s social care services from birth to young adulthood for 20 million people in England.

Event details

When: 10:30-11:30, Thursday 27 February 2025

Where: Online

How to attend: Register on Eventbrite.