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Maternal and Child Health Network - UKPRP-funded network @uofgshw.bsky.social
Aims to evaluate policy impacts on child and maternal health by harnessing administrative data across the 4 UK nations.
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Missed any of our 2025 policy webinars on #childhealth? Our bitesize 15 min recordings are online - catch up now! matchnet.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/events/

#earlyyears #SureStartNI #housing #HealthyStart
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MatCHNet policy webinars (2025) Webinar 17: The impact of Sure Start Northern Ireland on health and social care (Meng Le Zhang, Cardiff University) Webinar 18: Understanding associations between children’s housing and health using quantitative data (Amy Clair, University of Adelaide) Webinar 19: Evaluation of the UK Healthy Start Scheme (Christina Vogel, City St George’s, University of London)
July 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Thanks Meng Le Zhang @Cardiff University for a great webinar on Sure Start Northern Ireland. Interesting results on reduced social service intervention and esp for younger mothers. Look forward to hearing more in the autumn.

Thanks also to Emma Hitchen @Parenting Focus NI for chairing!
June 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Interested in #earlyyears policy evaluation?
Come along to hear @christinaavogel.bsky.social present primary data to evaluate the UK Healthy Start Scheme.
📅24 June, 12.30pm
✍️Register now: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
MatCHNet webinar: Evaluation of the UK Healthy Start Scheme Tuesday 24 June 12.30-1pm (BST) The Maternal and Child Health Network warmly invite you to join our lunchtime webinar series, which will showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years. Christina Vogel of City St George’s, University of London will draw upon primary research data to i) evaluate how using the Healthy Start subsidy influences food purchasing, diet and broader child outcomes; ii) identify factors driving Healthy Start use; and iii) co-create strategies to optimise the scheme’s impact.
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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📢How does housing affect children's health?
Come along to hear @amy-clair.bsky.social present findings from #admindata in the UK and Australia.
📅17 June, 12.30pm
✍️Register now: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
MatCHNet webinar: Understanding associations between children’s housing and health using quantitative data Tuesday 17 June 12.30-1pm (BST) The Maternal and Child Health Network warmly invite you to join our lunchtime webinar series, which will showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years. Amy Clair from the Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide will use data from the UK and Australia to give an overview of the evidence linking children’s housing and health with an emphasis on the shift towards private renting that characterises housing in the UK and Australia.
May 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
matchnet.bsky.social
📢Interested in using #admindata to evaluate #earlyyears policy?
Come along to our lunchtime webinar to hear Meng Le Zhang (Cardiff University) talk about work on Sure Start Northern Ireland.
📅10 June, 12.30pm
✍️Register now: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
MatCHNet webinar: The impact of Sure Start Northern Ireland on health and social care Tuesday 10 June 12.30-1pm (BST) The Maternal and Child Health Network warmly invite you to join our lunchtime webinar series, which will showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years. Meng Le Zhang from Cardiff University will discuss how using administrative data on children born in Northern Ireland can be used to measure the impact of Sure Start on: maternal and child health in the first 60 months of life, use of services and identification of developmental delays in children, and early parenting behaviours. See www.gla.ac.uk/matchnet for details. To stay in touch, please follow @MatCHNet_ or @MatCHNet.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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📢Interested in #earlyyears policy evaluations? Join our new lunchtime webinars
📅Tuesdays - June 10, 17 and 24
🕜12.30-1pm
Topics: 1. Sure Start Northern Ireland, 2. housing and children's health, and 3. UK Healthy Start Scheme
Register now: matchnet.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/events/
All welcome!
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Do you want to involve young children in health research?
This new toolkit includes interactive slides and hands-on activities to make #healthdata fun & accessible for young learners

Engaging Children with Health Data: A Toolkit
Explore: eprints.gla.ac.uk/345833/
#STEMEducation
Preview display of Engaging Children with Health Data: A Toolkit. Flips through slides.
February 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Missed any of our 2024 policy webinars on #childhealth?
Our bitesize 15 min recordings are online - catch up now!
matchnet.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/events/
MatCHNet webinar series (2024) Webinar 14: Exploring the utility of routine perinatal mental health data for informing service provision: insights from the BiB4All cohort (Hollie Henderson, Bradford Institute for Health Research) Webinar 15: The BEBOLD platform – Australia (Rhiannon Pilkington, University of Adelaide) Webinar 16: The impacts of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on child health (Jean Adams, University of Cambridge)
February 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM