Our insights and evidence tell us what works in Camden.
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Everything we learn supports us to better respond to the needs of our youngest residents.
ChILD (Children’s Integrated Longitudinal Dataview)
We have a three-year plan (2026 – 2029) to assess our offer to residents up to the age of 19 and beyond.
The current Integrated Early Years System records data for all children up to five years old, including their engagement with Family Hubs and Children’s Centres. Through ChILD we will extend this dataset to collate the offers children and young people receive during their school years, and track any long term impacts.
To better understand the determining factors for health and wellbeing in Camden and what works to improve child health equity, we are delivering and evaluating sustainable test and learn projects.
ChILD will enable us to:
- Track short and long term impacts of our work
- Evaluate individual and cumulative impact initiatives
- Assess who receives the interventions we offer, and who does not
- Enact targeted universalism – our term for assessing eligibility, proactively engaging residents and encouraging those with greatest potential to benefit to take up universal, preventative support offers.
Whole-childhood outcomes framework ——
Raise Camden aims to achieve better long-term outcomes for children in our borough by improving childhood experience in the short term. While childhood experience is affected by many factors, by centring the perspectives of families who could most benefit from support, we hope to improve the experience for all Camden children.
We have developed a whole-childhood outcomes framework for closing the child health equity gap in Camden, at every stage from pregnancy to 25 years old. We use this framework to measure our impact.
The ambition set out in the framework is to ensure children growing up in Camden’s most deprived 40% of households are as happy, healthy and hopeful as children in the least deprived 40%.
The measures used in the framework are categorised according to which aspect of being ‘happy, healthy and hopeful’ they relate to, with a fourth category – reducing child poverty.
Happy
Mental health
Housing
Racism and discrimination
Healthy
Parental health
Early years and development
Physical health
Hopeful
Belonging
Education and attainment
Employment
Poverty
Material and social impacts
Depth of and time spent in poverty
The following groups are at a higher risk of experiencing poverty and its impacts, and have been identified as priority groups in the framework:
- Children from Black, Asian and other ethnic backgrounds
- Children with SEND
- Children living in temporary accommodation
- Children living in overcrowded housing
- Families with caring needs
- Families where at least one member has poor mental health.
