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National variations in children’s health shocking
The report, which analysed findings from Public Health England, has said that it was ’shocking’ that children could have widely ranging health prospects depending on their national location.
The National Children's Bureau found that 51 per cent of five-year-olds in Leicester have a form of tooth decay compared with 9.5 per cent of five-year-olds in West Sussex.
It also showed that a child on the Isle of Wight is more than four times more likely to be admitted to hospital with an injury than a child in central London.
From October councils in England will take on responsibility for young children's public health services but the charity said the government had to make improving services ‘a national mission’.
Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, said: "It is shocking that two children growing up in neighbouring areas can expect such a wildly different quality of health.
"The link between poverty and poor health is not inevitable. Work is urgently needed to understand how local health services can lessen the impact of living in a deprived area.
"We need local and national government to make the same efforts to narrow the gap in health outcomes across the country for under-fives as has been made to narrow the gap in achievement between poor and rich pupils in school."
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