NCMP results and data
Progress and challenges
In spring 2011 the Department of Health commissioned the Thomas Coram Research Unit to carry out an independent review of the National Child Measurement Programme. TCRU's work took stock of the progress and challenges faced by the NCMP since its launch in England in 2005, drawing together new and existing information and reflecting on how the programme could be improved. The research methods included interviews with seventeen key stakeholders at national, regional and local levels and an online survey or more than two hundred local NCMP leads and other relevant professionals from all regions of England. Read the report: Taking stock: a rapid review of the National Child Measurment Programme.
National results for the academic year 2009/10
Download the report summarising the key findings for the 2009/10 school year from the NHS Information Centre. The report provides high-level analysis of the prevalence of underweight, healthy weight, overweight and ‘obese' children, in Reception and Year 6 as measured in state schools in England in the school year 2009/10.
Jenny Weeks (South West Public Health Observatory) has produced a poster giving information about the SWPHO mapping tool and summarising the 2009/10 results in the south west: Results of the National Childhood Measurement Programme in the south west.
National results for the academic year 2008/09
The NHS Information Centre published National Child Measurment Programme results 2008/09 which summarises the key findings for England for the 2008/09 school year. It contains comparisons with 2007/08 and where appropriate comparisons have also been made with 2006/07 results.
The National Obesity Observatory (NOO) has a section on the NCMP with detailed analyses of national datasets. NOO has also made the anonymised national dataset available to public health observatories to allow regional and local analysis of the data and has itself published additional analysis: National Child Measurement Programme: changes in children's body mass index between 2006/07 and 2008/09, a report which presents analysis of the first three years of NCMP data and highlights any statistically significant differences that can be detected across survey years in the body mass index of English children aged 4-5 and 10-11.
National results for previous years
National results for the 2006/07 academic year.
National results for the 2007/08 academic year.
Cornwall
Researchers at Cornwall Council analysed the 2008/09 data for Cornwall, read the analysis extracted from Kernow Matters. Tables presented by community network area are included.
Data tables and mapping
You can access NCMP data for Cornwall and compare it with other areas of England from these sources:
- SW Public Health Observatory NCMP website's interactive spreadsheets for south west primary care trusts and local authorities showing participation and the prevalence of obesity, overweight and underweight
- The National Obesity Observatory's NCMP section includes e-atlases, which are interactive mapping tools for the analysis of data on the prevalence of obesity and its determinants at local authority and primary care trust level in England.
- The Child and Maternal Health Observatory, Chi Mat, has compiled Healthy Schools local area profiles. Now that Cornwall is a unitary authority there is a single report for Cornwall.
- The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Neighbourhood Statistics has produced data comparing Cornwall with the south west, go to ONS Neighbourhood Statistics.
Your school's data
Schools are now able to receive some of their own data. This information still maintains anonymity for individual pupils but provides percentages and comparison data for Cornwall and England.
There are some limitations in very small schools or for very small samples but some schools have now asked to use this data, amongst other sources of information, to help them decide on priority areas for Healthy Schools Plus.
Please contact Kate if you'd like to receive this information. It will be provided by a public health specialist who will check the data and send it to you in the form of a letter containing comparative information and some notes.
