The 2025 Children and Young People’s Mental Health Needs Assessment aims to understand the current mental health and wellbeing needs of children and young people in the City of London and the London Borough of Hackney.

It recommends reducing inequalities by ensuring services are community-led and culturally informed; improving communication and information-sharing for young people, parents, and professionals; developing more flexible, needs-based approaches beyond; strengthening the role of schools as key partners, particularly during key transition periods; and improving data sharing and quality to better understand needs and drive service improvement.

A new Public Health report highlights a significant increase in eating disorders across City and Hackney. These are serious mental health conditions, and our latest data reveals that local diagnoses are rising, with stark inequalities impacting our communities.

These inequalities highlight the need for early identification and accessible, responsive services. Read the Public Health team’s new report to explore these findings in full and understand what they mean for our communities.

This year’s Annual Director of Public Health Report focuses on the role of social capital in improving health and wellbeing. Drawing on local and national evidence, it focuses on how people connect across City & Hackney and how these networks allow people to access and share resources.

The report highlights the strong basis to build upon in City and Hackney and how the public health team, wider council along with our partners across the community and statutory sector can build on this further through working together. The core recommendations of the report are:

1. To design and evaluate our approach with the community 

2. To consider places as well as people to build social capital

3. To work in partnership with the networks and assets across City & Hackney.

The report identified local needs and gaps in services through quantitative data and insights from residents and stakeholders. It provides recommendations to improve healthy weight management in City and Hackney.

Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to protect our health, preventing up to 5 million deaths worldwide each year. But vaccine uptake is falling across the UK, and in City and Hackney, the drop is even sharper. This leaves more people at risk of preventable diseases and outbreaks, with the greatest impact on communities already facing health inequalities.

This plan outlines how we’ll tackle these challenges, focusing on:

• Reaching high-risk groups with vaccinations in community spaces.
• Co-creating resources and campaigns with local communities.
• Using better data to plan and deliver services.
• Making sure services are efficient and evidence-based.
• Training staff to make every interaction an opportunity to promote vaccination.

Our vision is to safeguard all communities from vaccine-preventable diseases by increasing and addressing inequalities in immunisation coverage through action of community-, data- and system-led insights.