Five boys have been charged with assault after a man was attacked in Oldham.
27.07.2022 - 15:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Children are more likely to die as babies, five-year-olds have rotting teeth and a quarter of youngsters are obese by their final year of primary school.
A series of reports presented to councillors at a health scrutiny meeting has painted a grim picture of the challenges faced by children growing up in Oldham.
But health chiefs say the situation is unlikely to substantially change for the better unless more families are lifted out of poverty and deprivation.
The borough’s infant mortality rate, where a child dies under the age of one, has been higher than the England rate ‘consistently’ for more than a decade.
Oldham now has the worst rate of infant mortality in the North West of the country. And it’s not just babies’ health that suffers in the borough.
More than one in ten reception aged children, and 26 per cent of children in year six of primary school are obese. And nearly half of five-year-olds in the borough have experience of ‘dental decay’.
Councillors described hearing the reports as ‘depressing’ – and there were warnings the pandemic could have made issues even worse.
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Oldham’s most recent three-year infant mortality rate, which is from 2018 to to the end of 2020, was 6.2 per 1,000 people.
This is significantly higher than the national rate of 3.9. Councillors were told the trend had been getting ‘slightly worse’.
When questioned by panel member Councillor Riaz Ahmad on the impact austerity had been having, Rebecca Fletcher, a consultant in public health at Oldham council said: “The national evidence is that in terms of causes of deaths of children, poverty is associated with almost all deaths of
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