Using the ECHILD database for economic analyses: scope and challenges
27/11/2025
Categories: Events, ADR England, Office for National Statistics, Children, young people & education, Health & wellbeing, Employment & the economy
27 November 2025
This webinar will explore how ECHILD (Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data) can be used for economic analysis. This session is part of the ECHILD Seminar Series, delivered by the ECHILD team.
ECHILD offers an excellent resource to assess costs across the hospital care, social care, and special needs provision sectors, and the potential for more efficient integration. This seminar will present a study from the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit, that assesses joint service utilisation and cost trajectories through healthcare, social care and special educational needs services.
Shing Lau (University of Manchester) will present challenges and approaches to calculating healthcare costs and demonstrate their use in a cross sectional study of children aged 5-18 years in 2022/23, grouped according to their histories of chronic health conditions, social care and special educational needs services.
German Pulido (UCL) will present findings from the same project using a prospective birth cohort. Two-thirds of all hospital days of stay among children aged 0 to 18 concentrate within 25% of high users who are characterised by chronic health conditions and special education needs, and to a lesser extent social care. Both approaches demonstrate the intersection of services for certain children and the potential value of more integrated care for high need users of services.
The session aims to generate interest in developing data science resources for economic analyses using ECHILD.
Event details
When: Thursday 27 November, 12:00 - 13:00
Where: Online
Cost: Free
Register: Via the ECHILD website.
