Locality Profiles Health and Wellbeing Children's Services Kettering 1 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 INTRODUCTION This locality profile expands on the findings of the main document and aims to build a localised picture of those clusters of indicators which require focus from the Council and partner agencies. Wherever possible, data has been extracted at locality level and comparison with the rest of the county, the region and England has been carried out. MAIN FINDINGS The areas in which Kettering performs very similarly to the national average are detailed below. The district has no indicators in which it performs worse than the national average or the rest of the county: Life expectancy at birth for females (third lowest in the county) School exclusions Under 18 conceptions Smoking at the time of delivery Excess weight in Reception and Year 6 pupils Alcohol specific hospital stays in under 18s (second highest rate in the county) Admissions to A&E due to self-harm in under 18s (second highest in the county) 2 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 KETTERING OVERVIEW DEMOGRAPHY As a locality, a number of Kettering’s demographics conform with the Northamptonshire picture, particularly around household deprivation, occupational structure, qualifications and age. Kettering has a population of around 95,700, the second largest in the county, and the second highest number of households, although the average household size is second lowest in Northamptonshire. The area is predominantly White with a small BME population. Rather than spread evenly across a number of ethnic groups, over 50% fall within the Asian community. Kettering does not show significant signs of deprivation prevalent within the area. However unemployment is marginally higher than the county average, and earnings marginally lower. i Kettering Northamptonshire Population† 95,700 706,647 Expected Growth† (2012-37) 20.5% 19% Number of households* 39,700 287,700 Average household Size* 2.36 2.40 Gender† Male 49.1% 49.3% Female 50.9% 50.7% Ethnic Group* White 93.9% 91.5% Mixed 1.3% 2.1% Asian/Asian British 3.2% 3.6% Black/African/Caribbean Black British 1.0% 2. 5% Other 0.5% 0.4% 3 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 CHILD POPULATION NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Total District Percentage of Estimated 0-18 Percent of Total population (ONS Total district District Population Northamptonshire 2013 mid year population that (May 2013) child population estimates) are children 0-18 Corby 15998 9.54% 64,212 24.91% Daventry 17630 10.51% 78,556 22.44% East Northamptonshire 20718 12.35% 87,969 23.55% Kettering 22686 13.52% 95,748 23.69% Northampton 52411 31.24% 216,739 24.18% South Northamptonshire 20042 11.95% 87,465 22.91% Wellingborough 18260 10.89% 87,465 20.88% Northamptonshire 167745 100% 706,647 23.74% Please note that for the following document comparisons will be based on the percentage of child population from the total of children in Northamptonshire. ii 4 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 POPULATION GROWTH Kettering is expected to see a 20.5% growth in population over the next 25 years, third highest across the county after Corby and Northampton.iii 5 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 LIFE EXPECTANCY Life expectancy at birth was similar in Kettering in 2010-2012 to the England, East Midlands and Northamptonshire averages for both males (79.2) and females (82.7). Life expectancy for women in the locality is the third lowest in the county after Corby and Northampton. Life expectancy for males in Kettering has been increasing broadly in line with the England average. Life expectancy for females in Kettering has remained similar to the England average since 2000/02. iv 6 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 7 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 ACCESS TO SERVICES Kettering has above average access to services on the whole, with the exception being rural Kettering, which has a smaller concentration of services, in line with rural profiles. v 8 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 A HEALTHY START IN LIFE BIRTH RATES The number of Live Births in Kettering in 2013 was 1,179; this is the 2nd highest number of live births in the county. This means that there larger number of children in Kettering who will be accessing services such as Children’s Centres and medical support. vi The General Fertility Rate (GFR) shows the number of live births per 1,000 women aged 15–44 (calculated using mid-2012 population estimates). In Kettering the GFR is 65.0 per 1,000 women. This is 9.2 births per 1,000 women higher than in South Northamptonshire, which has the lowest rate of just 55.8 births per 1,000 women in Northamptonshire. Kettering is also below the Northamptonshire average of 66.7 live births per 1,000 women. vii This means that while there was a higher number of births in Kettering in 2013 overall, a smaller proportion of the population are having children and accessing services than in Northamptonshire as a whole. 9 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 HEALTHY BIRTH WEIGHTS The Percentage of Low Weight Births in Kettering in 2012 was 1.9%, with only Daventry (1.7%) lower and the highest percentage is in East Northamptonshire (2.9%). Kettering is below the averages for both the East Midlands (2.8%) and England (2.8%). The trend for low birth weight in Kettering shows an overall decrease in the percentage of low weight births but that it has remained similar to the declining England average. viii 10 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 INFANT MORTALITY The infant mortality rateix in Kettering in 2010/12 was 4 deaths per 1,000 live births, this is below both the East Midlands rate of 4.1 and the England rate of 4.1 deaths per 1,000 live births. The trend for infant mortality in Kettering has remained similar to that of England and there has been an overall increase since 2001/03. 11 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 SMOKING DURING PREGNANCY The East Midlands has a higher proportion of smoking during pregnancy than England as a whole, and Northamptonshire is no exception. In 2013/14 15% of mothers in Kettering were smokers at the time of delivery. This is slightly below the East Midlands average of 15.1%, and compares poorly to the England average of just 12%. While the proportion of mothers that smoke at the time of delivery has decreased it has been significantly worse than the England proportion since 2011/12. x Further detailed analysis on smoking habits of people in Northamptonshire can be found in the 2013 JSNA Smoking Detailed Report by PHAST on Northamptonshire Analysis. 12 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 TOOTH DECAY The mean number of identified tooth decay problems in Kettering in 2011/12 was 0.81 per child. This was significantly better than the England (0.94) and East Midlands (0.92) averages.xi 13 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 CHILDHOOD OBESITY Childhood obesity has increased across the country as a whole. A snapshot of Reception and Year 6 children for 2012/13 shows an increase in those classified as ‘obese’ of 9.6% nationally, 8.5% in Northamptonshire and 10.5% in Kettering. Overweight Obese District % Reception % Year 6 % Reception % Year 6 Corby 27.1% 37.7% 12.0% 21.6% Daventry 17.2% 28.7% 6.8% 13.1% East Northamptonshire 20.1% 33.6% 7.9% 17.1% Kettering 23.4% 34.7% 8.6% 19.1% Northampton 20.2% 31.4% 9.3% 17.8% South Northamptonshire 19.8% 30.5% 7.8% 14.8% Wellingborough 23.0% 35.6% 8.8% 18.4% Northa mptonshire 21.3% 32.7% 8.8% 17.3% East Midlands 22.2% 32.7% 9.0% 18.4% England 22.2% 33.3% 9.3% 18.9% Kettering shows an overall increase in the percentage of children classified as ‘overweight’ from 2006/07 through to 2012/13 for both 4-5 year olds (Reception) and 10-11 year olds (Year 6). For both age groups analysed, Kettering started with a lower percentage of children classified as ‘overweight’ (32% year 6 06/07, 23% reception 06/07), going on to surpass both the national and East Midlands averages (34.7% year 6 12/13, 23.4% reception 12/13). xii Wider information on obesity in Northamptonshire for both adults and children and the implications of this can be found in the 2013 JSNA Obesity Detailed Report by PHAST on Northamptonshire Analysis. 14 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 15 | Children’s JSNA 2015 Update Published January 2015, next update January 2016 There was only one electoral ward with Excess weight among children in Reception in Kettering that is higher than the England average, this is Pipers HillError! Reference source not found.. There are two schools in this ward, Kettering Science Academy and St Edwards Catholic Primary School. Only Slade ward is below the England average for Reception children. The only ward in Kettering with a higher prevalence of excess weight than then England average for Year 6 is All Saints; there are two schools in this area: Park Infant School, Kettering Park Junior School, Kettering For Year 6 one ward shows as below the England average, this is Pipers Hill.