Children's Community Services
Turning children’s community data into meaningful direction and improvement
Registration Opens
April
Data Collection
w/c 8th August
Validation
September - December
Outputs Released
February
Findings Events
February
Key Dates for 2026/27:
Community dataset for any providers of children’s community services.
We have benchmarked children’s community services for many years, evolving through various datasets. In 2025, we unified all children’s community services benchmarked into the Children’s Community Services Dataset providing a more streamlined and efficient approach to presenting participants insight into their community provision for children.
This dataset enables organisations to compare activity levels, workforce establishment and vacancy rates, and key access metrics such as referral-to-contact waiting times, supporting evidence-based service planning and improvement.
Services currently benchmarked area:
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Children's Community Nursing
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Dietetics
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Health Visiting
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Occupational Therapy
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Paediatrics
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Physiotherapy
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School Nursing
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Speech and Language Therapy
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0-19 services
Key Themes
Access
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Waiting times
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Referrals
Activity
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Caseload
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Number of contacts
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Contact types
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DNAs
Workforce
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Staffing levels
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Staffing skill mix
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Vacancy
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Sickness absence
Mandated reviews
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Proportion delivered
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Proportion delivered by a Health Visitor
EHCP
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Support to reviews
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Proportion of caseload
How do you compare?
The average waiting time from referral to first clinical contact for speech and language therapy in 2025 was 103 days. How does your service compare?