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Indices of Deprivation 2025
The English Indices of Deprivation 2025 have now been published! Take a look at the published information and view the mapped data on Suffolk's Local Insight platform:
Healthy Weight Needs Assessment
Maintaining a healthy weight is one of the most important factors for lifelong wellbeing – yet it remains a challenge for many people across Suffolk. Our latest Health Needs Assessment takes an in-depth look at healthy weight across the population, from children and young people to older adults.
This comprehensive review combines robust statistical analysis, local insights, and emerging evidence to understand the drivers behind weight-related health challenges. It also evaluates the effectiveness of current services and interventions.
More information:
Data update for the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Needs Assessment
This update provides the latest available data on children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in Suffolk. It builds on the SEND Needs Assessment 2024, offering a snapshot of current trends and progress against earlier recommendations.
This data update uses the latest publicly available data in 2025 from the school census (completed on a single day in January/February each year). There is more recent, internal data available for Suffolk County Council, however this data update concentrates on the latest public data and how it compares to the data within the SEND Needs Assessment published in January 2025. It is therefore a snapshot and a static point in time.
Key points include:
- Focus on public data: The update uses national school census figures rather than internal datasets, ensuring transparency and comparability.
- Purpose: To refresh the evidence base and highlight changes since the original assessment, supporting informed decision-making.
- Context: Aligns with Suffolk’s strategic priorities for timeliness, quality, and delivering the right support at the right time.
This resource is designed to guide local planning and provision for SEND services, helping partners work together to improve outcomes for children and young people.
View the profile and our other JSNA products using the JSNA searchable index below:
Have you seen our place look up tool?
It contains look ups for different geographies in Suffolk - and now has the latest Index of Multiple Deprivation data for 2025 as well!
If you are using the tool below you may need to click the right hand side of the buttons to make the report change pages!
Well minds booklet
The Public Health and Communities Team at Suffolk County Council have published a new 'Well Minds' booklet contains lots of useful services, helplines and websites that are available to support anyone that needs support with their mental health and wellbeing.
Click on the link below to view the booklet either as an interactive flipbook or a PDF version.
Printed copies of the booklet will be available in all libraries across Suffolk and a more accessible version will be available soon.
The 'Well Minds' flip book - simplebooklet.com/wellmindssuffolk
Recent national publications:
- Child abuse is appalling in all its forms and affects some of the most vulnerable in society, but it is also something that is little discussed or understood. Today the ONS has published its latest estimates of the experiences people aged 18 years and over had during childhood.
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Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales: The ONS has published annual registrations for deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales. This includes information on different substances involved and occurrences.
This month the JSNA workplan is focused on:
- Producing a healthy pregnancy profile
- Producing a Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) profile
- Planning the Mental Health Needs Assessment
- Organising the Annual Public Health Report 2025
- Scoping new profiles on alcohol, substance misuse, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), and respiratory health
The Suffolk Observatory
The Suffolk Observatory contains all Suffolk’s vital statistics. It is the one-stop-shop for data, statistics and reports all about Suffolk provided by a variety of organisations.
Through data, reports and analysis, the Suffolk Observatory provides a comprehensive picture of the county and is a great source for useful facts and figures that will help you write reports and presentations, inform strategic and business planning, prepare funding applications or support academic research.
