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How children learn to like food

Your child's fussiness for food is mostly inherited, and most of the things parents try in order to fix it make it worse. Find out why young children refuse food, why it is rarely a parent's fault, and the unglamorous method that genuinely changes how they eat.

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Children in Buckinghamshire UA

How children here are doing, from the 2-year check to the end of primary school, set against England as a whole.

Health and early years

At a glance

MeasureBuckinghamshire UAEngland
On track in all five areas at the 2 to 2½ year review
2024/25 lower		 77.2% 81.4%
Good level of development at the end of Reception
2024/25 higher		 71.4% 68.3%
Phonics check met in Year 1
2024/25 higher		 81.8% 79.8%
Reception children living with obesity
2024/25 lower		 8.4% 10.5%
Year 6 children living with obesity
2024/25 lower		 17.2% 22.2%
MMR first dose by age 2
2024/25 higher		 91.7% 88.9%
MMR two doses by age 5
2024/25 higher		 89.7% 83.7%
Primary pupils persistently absent
2024/25 lower		 12.1% 13.0%
Children in relative low-income families (under 16)
2024/25 lower		 11.0% 19.8%

“Higher” or “lower” means the difference from England is bigger than the margin of error; “similar” means it isn’t. These are figures for all children in the council area, not for any one school or child.

End of primary school

Year 6 reading, writing and maths

Buckinghamshire UA 65%
England 63%
YearBuckinghamshire UAEngland
2021/2261%59%
2022/2361%60%
2023/2463%61%
2024/2565%63%
2025/2665%63%

Share of pupils in state-funded schools meeting the expected standard in all three. 2025/26 figures are provisional. There were no tests in 2019/20 or 2020/21.

Schools

Primary schools in Buckinghamshire UA

186 schools