Acknowledgements

The ECHILD project is in partnership with NHS England and the Department for Education (DfE) and we thank the following individuals for their valuable contributions to the project: Jodie Taylor-Brown, Ian Goodwin, Garry Coleman, Richard Caulton, Catherine Day (NHS England), and Gary Connell, Harriet Fearn, Kirsty Knox (DfE). We are also grateful to Bill South and Alan Cotterill from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for providing the Trustworthy Research Environment for ECHILD.

We thank all the children, young people, parents and carers who contributed to the ECHILD project. We also gratefully acknowledge all children and families whose de-identified data form this research database.

This user guide describes the ECHILD database which uses data from the DfE, NHS England and ONS. The DfE, NHS England and ONS do not accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by the authors.

This research benefits from and contributes to research conducted by the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit but was not commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Authors

UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

  • Dr Farzan Ramzan
  • Dr Louise Mc Grath-Lone (now at UCL Institute of Education)
  • Dr Ruth Blackburn
  • Prof Ruth Gilbert
  • Dr Matthew Jay
  • Dr Kate Lewis
  • Mr Matthew Lilliman
  • Dr Vincent Nguyen
  • Dr Milagros Ruiz Nishiki
  • Mr Tony Stone
  • Prof Katie Harron

Contributors

UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

  • Prof Pia Hardelid
  • Dr Nicolás Libuy (now at UCL Institute of Education)
  • Dr Ania Zylbersztejn

Institute for Fiscal Studies

  • Ms Christine Farquharson
  • Mr Imran Tahir

Funding

This work is funded via Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK), an investment by the Economic and Social Research Council (part of UK Research and Innovation), through the following grants:

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