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Dr Guddi Singh is a paediatrician looking for answers. She’s worried about the patients whose problems can’t be fixed with a prescription – babies who are not thriving because their parents can’t afford to heat their home or children who are obese because they don’t have access to outdoor space. Children in the UK face some of the worst health outcomes in Europe. Dr Singh wants to find solutions.

In a three-part series, she travels across England through the three ages of childhood: the early years, the primary school years and adolescence. She meets people in the community, from health workers to teachers, on a quest to discover what’s going wrong and what it will take to turn things around.

In the final episode, Guddi looks at mental health in adolescence. She finds out about a project in North Devon that’s been created by young people themselves to support neurodivergent children at school. She travels to Cambridge to learn about plans for a new children’s hospital that will integrate mental and physical health. She talks to Professor Sir Michael Marmot about his ground breaking work on health inequalities and she asks Stephen Morgan MP, Minister for Early Education, about the government’s plans for addressing the challenges to the health of our children.

Presenter: Guddi Singh Producer:
Jo Glanville Editor: Kirsten Lass
Executive Producer: Rosamund Jones
Production Executive: Lisa Lipman
Sound Engineers: Dan King and Jon Calver
Photography of Guddi Singh courtesy of Anad Singh
Commissioning Editor: Daniel Clarke

A Loftus Media production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4