Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) are developed jointly by local authorities, health and social care partners. They provide a picture of the health and wider determinants of health, and wellbeing needs of the local population, where key issues are identified using an evidence-based approach. Brent’s JSNA has been developed as an interactive tool, hosted in Power BI, to present the latest...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. Brent is well served with public transport including London Underground and Overground lines, National Rail and buses. More people are either walking, cycling or using public transport resulting in the number of vehicles per household reducing to 0.8. In 2017 1,158 people...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The 2019/20 reports below have been retained here for reference purposes. This refresh of Brent’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) provides an assessment of health, social care needs, their determinants and forecasted prevalence. The JSNA refresh is based on an analysis of a range of national and Brent datasets including...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. There are 102,752 under 25s in Brent, which represents 31% of the total population. The percentage of children achieving their early learning goals related to communication, language and literacy is low at 71%, ranking Brent 108 out of 152 boroughs. This report is...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a procedure where the female genital organs are injured or changed and there is no medical reason for this. FGM has been a specific criminal offence in the UK since 1985 and is internationally recognised as a...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. The Indices of Deprivation (ID) 2019 replace the ID2015 as the Government’s official measure of deprivation from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government. The profile and pattern of deprivation in Brent remains similar to 2015, and relative to other areas...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. Internal migration is increasing as the UK born population has increased by 12% over the last five years. 52% of the Brent population were born abroad and 76% of babies born in 2017 had mothers who were born outside the UK. This...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. Noise is unwanted sound that may be considered a nuisance by those affected but may not qualify as actionable noise nuisance to the local authority. In Brent music and live music represents the most significant reported noise source that is actionable as...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. Overall air pollution in Brent is declining. There are several air quality hot spots in the borough, mainly around town centres where there is high road traffic congestion. 56% of air pollution (NOx) in Brent is from road transport, and over...
Update: Please note the 2019/20 JSNA has been superseded by the 2023 JSNA. The report below has been retained here for reference purposes. Climate change has numerous implications for public health. These are uniformly likely to affect vulnerable residents most severely, and include poor air quality, more frequent and severe extreme weather events and potential for water and food scarcity. This report is part of...