Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks: data for 2024 to 2025

Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks: data for 2024 to 2025 Quarterly and annual data sets about the number and proportion of infants who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks. Applies to England Documents Details Annual and quarterly data for breastfeeding prevalence at 6 to 8 weeks. Information is presented at local authority of residence, region and England level. The data was collected through an interim reporting system, Children’s public health 0 to 5 years: national reporting, set up to collect health visiting activity data at a local authority resident level. Data is submitted by local authorities on a voluntary basis. The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) will be used as the basis for these metrics in the longer term, once the data quality has reached a suitable quality. Local authority commissioners and health professionals can use these resources to track how many infants in their local area are breastfed. Correction notice: December 2025 Since publication in November 2025, an error has been identified in the number of infants due a 6 to 8 week review in quarters 1 and 2 of the financial year 2024 to 2025 in Croydon. This affects the percentage of infants whose breastfeeding status is known for Croydon, London and England, in quarters 1 and 2 and the financial year 2024 to 2025 - and the corresponding confidence intervals. The changes are: - for Croydon the percentage of infants whose breastfeeding status is known from: - 80.9% to 78.4% for quarter 1 - 87.0% to 80.5% for quarter 2 - 85.4% to 83.1% annually - for London, the percentage of infants whose breastfeeding status is known from: - 78.7% to 78.6% for quarter 1 - 81.3% to 81.0% for quarter 2 - 83.9% to 83.8% annually - for England, the percentage of infants whose breastfeeding status is known from 90.7% to 90.6% for quarter 2 It also changes the percentage of infants totally breastfed for England for quarter 2 from 33.6% to 33.5%. The data has been updated and reissued in the annual data tables on this page and in the Fingertips tool. These data tables supersede any previous published files. Correction notice: June 2026 Birmingham Council has identified a data quality issue with their breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks data for 2024 to 2025. The data has therefore been removed from the breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks indicator in Fingertips and we do not plan to issue a replacement figure. No changes have been made to the data tables or commentary on this GOV.UK page. No other changes have been made to Fingertips. Updates to this page - Added a notice to reflect a correction to data for Birmingham. - Added a notice and updated data tables to reflect a correction to data for Croydon. - Replaced provisional quarterly data with final quarterly and annual data for 2024 to 2025. This file supersedes any previously published files. Statistical commentary added. - Added 'Data tables: breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks, April 2024 to March 2025'. - First published.