Long-term conditions and disability
Tertiary prevention to reduce adverse outcomes for children and families affected by multi-morbidity and child disability.
Children with long-term conditions or disability account for a large proportion of healthcare costs throughout life. Improving quality of care and quality of life, while containing costs, requires join-up between schools, health and social care services, and carers.
The Children and Families Policy Research Unit builds on previous work on health outcomes for children with long-term conditions to also consider the health and wellbeing of parents and siblings. Projects undertaken allow the team to adopt a life-course approach using both nationally representative birth cohorts based on administrative databases and well-phenotyped regional or national cohorts, scoping studies of local variations in practice, and qualitative research with affected families.
Health, education and social care utilisation and costs for children with additional or high needs
Inequalities in health trajectories to adulthood of vulnerable adolescents
Inequalities in health trajectories from adolescence to adulthood for young people receiving social care or special educational needs support or with neurodevelopmental disorder
Chronic health conditions, school absence and attainment
Influence of health condition, social disadvantage and school on absenteeism and relationship with educational attainment (September 2021 - August 2023)
Variation in mental and physical health of children
Variation in mental and physical health of children with learning disability or autism, their mothers and siblings