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New study: how early childhood services, leisure services, and local authorities work with children’s health and well-being

How do early childhood services, leisure services, and local authorities work with children’s health and well-being? Six new surveys have been distributed in collaboration with Epinion, focusing on work with well-being and health across a range of early childhood and leisure services.

The Centre for Childhood Health has just distributed a series of questionnaires on work with well-being and health to early childhood services, leisure services, and local authorities, focusing on how they support the work carried out in these settings. The surveys are intended to strengthen our shared knowledge about children’s health and well-being.

Six new surveys have been distributed in collaboration with Epinion

The questionnaires have been sent to pedagogical staff, managers in early childhood and leisure services, as well as to local authorities across the country. The purpose is to create an up-to-date and in-depth picture of how children’s health and well-being are addressed, and where there is a need for new initiatives.

They have been sent to all heads of administration responsible for early childhood and school/leisure services, including 1,600 daycare institutions, 479 childminders, and 1,600 after-school and leisure clubs.

The responses will provide the Centre with insight into where there is potential to launch new activities and strengthen collaboration across the country. The survey will run until Christmas, and we expect to present the first results in early 2026.