Official Statistics

Children’s public health nursing: workforce and activity, 2025

Official statistics in development on healthy child programme activity, school nursing services and associated workforces in England in 2025.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 17 September 2026
• Last updated: 17 September 2026
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  1. 17 September 2026

     Updated with correct graph for ‘Figure 8: percentage of new birth reviews carried out at home or in a clinic or family hub in each region in England, 2025’. The originally published version was duplicated in error from figure 6 (for antenatal visits).

  2. 17 September 2026

     First published.

Applies to England

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Children’s public health nursing: workforce and activity report, 2025

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Children's public health nursing, 2025: methodology

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Children's public health nursing, 2025: data tables

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Children's public health nursing, 2025: pre-release access list

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Details

These statistics cover:

• the number of people working in health visiting and school nursing teams
• activity carried out under the healthy child programme, including:
  • statutory health and development reviews for children aged 0 to 5 years
  • non-statutory targeted reviews
  • school nursing activity

The data is based on returns from 145 local councils in England.