Last Updated: January 2026 Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) JSNA Back to People Special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) can affect a child or young person’s ability to learn. They can affect their: physical ability behaviour or ability to socialise, for example they struggle to make friends reading and writing, for example because they have dyslexia ability to understand things concentration levels, for example because they have...

Last Updated: December 2025 Family Friendly Index Back to People The Family Friendly Index was developed to assess whether we are delivering on our vision for a family friendly borough and sets out a range of aspirations for children and young people. The Family Friendly Index is part of the Children and Young People dashboard – to see the full dashboard click here. For more...

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...

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) The Barnet Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) presents data to support the local authority, local NHS organisations and other public and private organisations including the voluntary sector, in their assessment of the current and future health, care and wellbeing needs of the borough and our community, and to thus inform local decision making. A comprehensive picture of...

Last Updated: September 2025 Substance Misuse Back to People Substance misuse is the use of alcohol, illegal drugs, or over-the-counter or prescription medications in a way that they are not meant to be used and could be harmful to you or others around you. People can misuse substances one time, occasionally, or regularly, and they can go on to develop substance use disorder. This...

Last Updated: September 2025 Mental Health Back to People Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It is vital to overall health and crucial to personal, community and socio-economic development. The mental health dashboard gives an overview of mental health in Barnet, with various indicators split into four themes of: Prevalence & Incidence: including of depression and other mental health conditions Wellbeing: including...

Last Updated: September 2024 Mortality Back to People Mortality statistics are a key indicator of public health and quality of life. The mortality dashboard is an interactive tool, providing detailed insight into mortality and life expectancy within Barnet. This is sorted into themes of standardised mortality ratio, age of mortality, leading and preventable causes of mortality, and life expectancy. What’s new? Updated standardised mortality ratios...

Last Updated: October 2025 Children and Young People Self-harm Needs Assessment Please click the link below to read the needs assessment in full: Back to People Barnet CYP Self-Harm HNA Final Download Plain Language Summary This report looks at self-harm in children and young people in Barnet, aged 0–25. It tries to understand: How many young people are self-harming Which young people are more likely to self-harm Why self-harm...

Open Barnet is the data portal for the London Borough of Barnet. it is an important tool in pushing forward Barnet’s Transparency Agenda, bringing together all our published datasets and other information of interest on one searchable database for anyone, anywhere to access. The aim is to meet the needs of residents as well as businesses, innovators and third sector...