Children and young people: wider determinants and risk factors
Data on wider determinants and risk factors that influence the health and wellbeing outcomes of children and young people are available from our web pages, our Online Profile Tool, and other sources. These are summarised below, grouped by topic.
Child poverty:
- Scottish Government child poverty statistics
- Scottish Government National Performance Framework indicator:
- ScotPHO Income and employment pages: children in relative poverty in working households
- ScotPHO profiles:
- households with children living in fuel poverty
- children in low income families
- children registered for free school meals
- Public Health Scotland child poverty pages
Education and employment:
- Scottish Government National Performance Framework indicators:
- Educational attainment
- Young people’s participation in education, training, or employment
- ScotPHO profiles:
- Annual participation (in education, training, or employment) measure for 16 – 19 year olds
- Employment rate for 16-24 year olds
- School exclusion rate
- School leavers in positive destinations
- School leavers in the most deprived quintile with 1 or more qualification at SCQF Level 6
- School leavers with 1 or more qualification at SCQF Level 4
- School leavers with 1 or more qualification at SCQF Level 6
- Secondary school attendance
- ScotPHO Education data page (archived 2023)
‘Looked after children’ and social care:
- Scottish Government children’s social work statistics
- ScotPHO profiles:
- Children looked after by local authority
- Children on the child protection register
- Children referred to the Children’s Reporter for care and protection
- Looked after school leavers in positive destinations
- Looked after school leavers with 1 or more qualification at SCQF Level 4
- Secondary school attendance by looked after children
Physical environment:
- ScotPHO profiles:
- Households with children living in homes that fail the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS)
- Young people living in the most access deprived quintile, aged 0-25 years
- Post-partum smoking rate
- Exposure to secondhand smoke at 6-8 weeks
- ScotPHO pages:
Social environment:
- ScotPHO profiles:
- Young people living in the most crime deprived quintile, aged 0-25 years
- Young people living in the most income deprived quintile, aged 0-25 years
- Children referred to the Children’s Reporter for offences
- Young people in prison, aged 16-24 years
- ScotPHO pages:
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
