{"id":31308,"date":"2026-09-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=31308"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:20:50","slug":"state-of-child-health-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2026\/09\/28\/state-of-child-health-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Child Health 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); 2026.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

[In 2026 children\u2019s health is in decline. Across nearly all major measures, outcomes have worsened or stagnated across the UK, reversing years of progress, and the impact is felt most sharply in deprived areas and among ethnic minority communities.]
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Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); 2026. [In 2026 children\u2019s health is in decline. Across nearly all major measures, outcomes have worsened or stagnated across the UK, reversing years of progress, and the impact is felt most sharply in deprived areas and among ethnic minority communities.]Freely available online https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcomm.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk%2Fls%2Fclick%3Fupn%3Du001.f0rOB6b6BpwM3cmYz-2FvR8RR5Fy-2F52lzKwyiPuhDmf0lmTA7sBXGNVlYvXnVk2l4AUyJDB9O7Oh2mjl0mikRPeQ-3D-3DentY_dQQJK-2Bh2VwYZPbMqkB87WA32QI3f-2BWEMx-2B25S5eglRzEceQyoGl8Uq4kHGL0icBfZbdxWoX7NOXcSksU1eIrNyoNFV0JdFPaVgTVKFLneZsCLca0NKTQUUGlROhlT5D3GMflDj5bn1NFIDwEg64hUqCwfeR-2FAMEPe4p8Ew2pIIJqUgGWsaW-2Fe3HODxi3sacRAAVddLnrG9-2Bsi-2F-2B6-2Br1rW1-2B-2BqgC8epDkNvoRYjZcTbNplwtG4nY8Ol77PVyLPvVHAVum-2F-2Bgwkvbv6cmT-2BLV-2FOISJ4F0rR4hkbxhXx5Zy0uhykay68wD3phabd1XrY-2Fx7kMZkQ0MLAA7EeqDDhMdKdzemDSt4JTioHlvHQBF7WnOh-2Fr7JYE3sBHbGUJJ9ND8v&data=05%7C02%7CAcademic.Library%40lscft.nhs.uk%7Cada47d47dcef43cc744c08df0812625a%7C0418b648afb0430094ba33f2b09eb31f%7C1%7C0%7C639238547183767663%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VUGnnWMp95G3h1gDksjWsPNp1swibSCZJGViCZrcRGw%3D&reserved=0 Some articles may require … Continue reading “State of Child Health 2026.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,8559,84],"tags":[1219,1239,1831,2342,5083],"class_list":["post-31308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-health","category-children","category-ethnic-minorities","tag-child-health","tag-children","tag-decline","tag-ethnic-minorities","tag-royal-college-of-paediatrics-and-child-health"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31309,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308\/revisions\/31309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}