Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet) Webinar Series: Policy Evaluations in the Early Years
MatCHNet hosts online lunchtime webinars that showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years and explore issues around using administrative data . This includes work in progress as well as completed projects from across the 4 UK nations. Presentations focus on evaluations of policies using routine and administrative data or secondary analysis of existing data.
Recordings from Series 1-5 are available below.
Registration for Series 6 (Summer 2025) is now open - see links below.
Series 6: Summer 2025
Webinar 17
Date: Tuesday 10 June at 12.30pm
Topic: The impact of Sure Start Northern Ireland on health and social care
Topic: The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy – evaluating its impact on teenage pregnancy rates
Speaker: Andy Baxter
Webinar 2
Date: Thursday 9 December at 12.30pm
Topic: Childhood obesity and the impact of cuts to local government investment in Sure Start Children’s Centres
Speaker: Kate Mason
Webinar 3
Date: Thursday 13 January at 12.30pm
Topic: Using linkage of administrative data to evaluate the Family Nurse Partnership in England
Speaker: Francesca Cavallaro
Methods workshops
MatCHNet runs online interactive workshops to showcase natural experiment methods that can be used to evaluate policies in the early years. Expert speakers lead the discussion of study design, methods, and limitations. Find out more on our Methods page.