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 1-4 are available below.
Registration is now open for Series 5 - see below.
Series 5: Autumn/Winter 2024
Webinar 14
Date: Tuesday 29 October at 12.30pm
Topic: Exploring the utility of routine perinatal mental health data for informing service provision: insights from the BiB4All cohort
Speaker: Hollie Henderson
Webinar 15
Date: Tuesday 26 November at 12.30pm
Topic: The BEBOLD platform – Australia
Speaker: Rhiannon Pilkington
Webinar 16
Date: Tuesday 17 December at 12.30pm
Topic: The impacts of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on child health
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.