Hear from the team.
The ECHILD team share their experiences of using linked data for research into children’s health and education.
How can national datasets help you and your family?
The ECHILD project links together data from hospitals with schools for children born in England. Katie Harron is a Professor of Statistics at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health and leads the ECHILD project. She tells us more about why datasets like these matter and how they can be used to improve the lives of children and their families.
May 2023
Christine Farquharson talks about the richness of ECHILD data
Christine Farquharson, an IFS Senior Research Economist working on the ECHILD project, discusses the richness of ECHILD's data from combining health and education data.
October 2021
What is ECHILD?
Dr Louise Mc Grath-Lone uses a presentation from engagement with children and young people advisory groups to introduce the ECHILD database.
April 2021
Christine Farquharson talks about ECHILD’s exemplar studies
Christine Farquharson, an IFS Senior Research Economist working on ECHILD, discusses the exemplar studies being produced for the ECHILD project.
October 2021
Using the ECHILD database to explore variation in school-recorded SEN for children with major congenital anomalies
Kate Lewis and Ruth Gilbert describe how ECHILD is being used to explore variation in school-recorded SEN for children with major congenital anomalies.
June 2023
Linking hospital and education data in England
Dr Nicolas Libuy Rios and Dr Louise Mc Grath-Lone present the findings of the linkage evaluation used in ECHILD and share preliminary results from ongoing studies using the ECHILD data at Population Data BC.
November 2021
ECHILD Stakeholder event
The ECHILD Stakeholder Event Panel answer initial questions about the ECHILD database and its potential value.
October 2023
A Young Advisor’s views
A young research advisor from the Council for Disabled Children FLARE gives their view on the potential value of the ECHILD database.
January 2021