Starting well is crucial. Early life experiences influence a child's ability to thrive, and lay the foundation for long-term health and wellbeing. These experiences include prenatal care, health, education, and social environments.
Suffolk's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is created as web pages, PowerBI dashboards, PDF documents, infographics and other formats.
Suffolk statistics are compared to England where possible. Smaller areas of Suffolk are contrasted with the whole county.
This page groups JSNA content most relevant to children and young people. To see everything related to the JSNA, go to the main JSNA page or search the report index.
The infographic is a Suffolk overview - use it with other JSNA data & resources. Where indicators have been colour-coded, this shows statistical significance compared to England data. Source information for users to explore the data more thoroughly is linked at the bottom right of the graphic.
Web reports
Each web page links to information divided into different documents.
Mental health needs assessment (2023) includes sections on children and young people's mental health, as well as perinatal mental health (also linked below).
Smoking and Vaping Health Needs Assessment (2024) - assessment and appendices containing general information on the impact and prevalence of smoking and vaping, as well as local target population groups including children and young people.
Starting well documents (PDF reports, presentations and infographics)
- Autism all age assessment – data profile (2022)PDF1.03MB
- Autism all age evidence review (2023)PDF466KB
- Drug and alcohol health needs assessment (2022)PDF7.33MB
- Education 2021 census Suffolk summary profile (2023)PDF999KB
- Health disability and unpaid care profile (2023)PDF2.73MB
- Learning disability needs assessment (2021)PDF438KB
- Mental health of children and young people needs assessment (2023)PDF1.49MB
- Oral health profile (2022)PDF2.51MB
- Perinatal mental health needs assessment (2023)PDF847KB
- Physical activity needs assessment (2022)PDF1.04MB
Report index
Filtered to show the most relevant resources for children and young people.