Health and wellbeing of children in England declining for last 15 years

Health and wellbeing of children in England declining for last 15 years View Image

The nation is “failing its children”, leading experts have warned in a new report which calls for the health system to do more to prevent ill health among children. The report, from the Institute of Health Equity (IHE) and children’s charity Barnardo’s, highlights how children in the UK have “some of the worst health outcomes in Europe”.

It says that the health and wellbeing of children and young people have been “deteriorating” for around 15 years and how there have been “widening health inequalities” among children depending on their wealth and ethnic background. Writing the foreword of the report, leading health expert Professor Sir Michael Marmot said: “England is failing its children.

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