Last Updated: October 2025 Suicide and Self-harm Back to People Suicide and self-harm are both serious public health problems. The suicide and self-harm dashboard brings together data on prevalence, risk factors, and services within Barnet. You may also be interested in the Mental Health dashboard (please click here), or in the Children and Young People Self-harm Needs Assessment (please click here). What’s new? Suicide data for 2022-24 Emergency...

Last Updated: June 2024 Life Course Infographic Back to People This infographic gives an overview of the outcomes of the average Barnet resident throughout their life course. Data time periods and sources Mother’s smoking: Data from: 2024/25 Source: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities. Public Health Profiles. Available at: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk © Crown copyright 2025 (Retrieved 9 October 2025). Birth rate: Data from: 2023 Source: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities. Public Health Profiles. Available at: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk © Crown copyright 2025 (Retrieved 9 October 2025). Low birth weight: Data from: 2024 Source: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities. Public...

...authority and regional greenhouse gas emissions statistics. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-local-authority-and-regional-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics (Retrieved 2 October 2025). Mean energy consumption per electricity meter: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (2024). Regional and local authority electricity consumption statistics. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/regional-and-local-authority-electricity-consumption-statistics (Retrieved 8 May 2025). Air pollution mortality: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities. Public Health Profiles. Available at: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk © Crown copyright 2024 (Retrieved 26 March 2024). School NO2 concentration: London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (2019). Greater London Authority. Available at: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/london-atmospheric-emissions-inventory–laei–2019 (Retrieved 26 March 2023). Noise pollution: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities. Public Health Profiles. Available at: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk © Crown copyright 2024 (Retrieved 25 March...

...to form an innovative way of working, collaborating to deliver insight-driven decision making, embed preventative approaches and increase efficiencies that are improving outcomes for residents. The team support different areas, from creating visualisations and narratives of projects from across the council, to Health analysis, to GIS, to supporting projects throughout Public Health. If there is a curiosity that runs across teams within the council, the I&I Hub can help identify data driven solutions and insights, helping to shape the direction of the council and make a difference with our work. We believe that data is fundamental to work done by the organisation,...

...the percentage of people claiming ESA is consistently lower than London and England. Employment rate gap The review “Is work good for your health and wellbeing” (2006) (https://www.jstor.org/stable/29522241?refreqid=excelsior%3A8f22126403f374266b29040a775f2f46) concluded that work was generally good for both physical and mental health and wellbeing, where appropriate, for the individual. The strategy for public health takes a life course approach and this measure provides a good indication of the impact limiting long-term illness has on employment among those in the “working well” life stage. This can be gauged by the following three measures: Gap in the employment -between those with a long-term health condition and...

...London (74.1%) and England (71.8%) For the same period, 63.3% of children who receive free school meals achieved a good level of development at the end of reception in Barnet. This is slightly lower than the overall London rate, (64.1%) but significantly higher than the rate for England (56.5%). Barnet Public Health supports all educational settings to be healthy environments and communities through promoting the Healthy Early Years London and Healthy Schools London award schemes. 118 schools and 96 early years settings have registered for the scheme, with many of which having received awards. Mental Health Children with poorer mental health are more likely to have lower educational attainment...

...determined by strategic noise mapping are: ‘The percentage of the population exposed to road, rail and air transport noise of 55 dB(A) or more during the night-time’ where Barnet’s 18.4% is 9th highest in London (15.9%) in comparison to England’s 8.5% Air Pollution (Particulates) Poor air quality is a significant public health issue. There is clear evidence that particulate matter in the air has a significant contributory role in human deaths particularly in cardiopulmonary deaths. The ‘natural and built environment’ domain captures elements of the environment people live in which are conducive to good/poor health. Air is a central feature of the...

...protection and reduce the incidence of these conditions. Generally, for childhood immunisations, in Barnet, the uptake is less than 90% and for some vaccines lower than 85%. The uptake varies for different vaccines and dosages. An action plan is in place to increase uptake of childhood immunisation. School age Barnet Public Health supports all educational settings to be healthy environments and communities through promoting the Healthy Early Years London and Healthy Schools London Award schemes. 118 schools and 96 early years settings have registered for the scheme, with many having received awards. The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is a nationally mandated public health programme. It provides the data...

...Mortality The basic concept of preventable mortality is that deaths are considered preventable if, in the light of the understanding of the determinants of health at the time of death, all or most deaths from the underlying cause (subject to age limits if appropriate) could mainly be avoided through effective Public Health and primary prevention interventions. Preventable deaths from all causes, all ages overlap with but are not the same as ‘treatable’ deaths from all causes, all ages, which include causes of death that could potentially be avoided through effective healthcare interventions, including secondary prevention and treatment. The rate of preventable deaths...

Overview Borough Summary People Places Planet National Data Profiles Health and Wellbeing Reports In this section... Overview Borough Summary People Places Planet National Data Profiles Health and Wellbeing Reports JSNA – National Data Profiles ARCHIVED PAGE To access the most recent JSNA please click here. Public Health Outcomes Framework This is a national data tool by Public Health England, and includes the latest data for Barnet benchmarked against national and other comparator areas, plus trend data. There are several themes across the top of the tool, each theme opens a separate data dashboard of indicators. The dashboard...