The best start in life has been identified as crucial to reducing health inequalities in a population. What happens during the first years of life can have long term impacts on health and socioeconomic status.
Lambeth JSNA materials
In 2022 Lambeth produced a health profile of the Borough. Section 3 describes the how and why the younger population of the Borough may change over time.
View the Health Profile for Lambeth 2022 - Section 3 (PDF 2MB)
External JSNA materials
OHID Child and Maternal Health
This selection of indicators, from OHID and other publicly available resources on child and maternal health, and enables a comparison of the factors affecting children and mother’s health in Lambeth at a regional and national level.
View the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities - Child and Maternal Health profile
LEAP publications
Set up in 2015, Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) is made up of parents, early years practitioners, nurseries, children’s centres, the National Children’s Bureau, Lambeth Council, NHS trusts, community organisations and several local charities
Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) is an innovative programme to better the lives of thousands of children in the Lambeth community, they produced a number of early year fact sheets describing the younger population groups in Lambeth. View LEAP Early years at a glance 2022 factsheet
Prevalence of excess weight (overweight and obese) for reception children in Lambeth had shown some decrease in recent years, and sits at 24% for 2016/17. However, children living in the LEAP wards have higher excess weight prevalence than children from other Lambeth wards. View LEAP Inequalities in excess weight for reception children 2012/13 - 2015/16 (PDF 3.2MB)
LEAP Maternity Analysis is a descriptive exploration of a large maternity dataset. When comparing the LEAP area with the full Lambeth population there are some similar trends to observe, such as the number of live births each year, as well as some differences, such as the ethnicity profile of pregnant women. View the LEAP Maternity Analysis
International, national, and regional fertility rates have been declining over the past decade. Lambeth’s fertility rate trend is no different. The analysis of local fertility rates in Lambeth determines the scale of this decline, what the trend looks like in LEAP supported areas, whether it is similar to other parts of London and England as a whole, as well as the difference in trends between different age groups. View LEAP Live births in Lambeth: analysis of local data
Older publications
LEAP aims to support the diet and nutrition of children in the area, as well as their social, emotional, communication and language development. Child weight at 5 is an outcome we can measure to provide some indication of the diet and nutrition needs of our community. A poster summarising the findings from the National Child Measurement Programme was produced in 2018. View the NCMP Leap poster 2018 - Comparing prevalence of overweight & obese 5-year-olds in the LEAP area with the rest of Lambeth (PDF 176KB)
In order to achieve a key outcome of LEAP, for children to be of a healthy weight from birth to 4 years of age, a system-wide evidence-based intervention is in place for early years children around food, physical activity and weight issues. One of the components of this intervention is a bespoke capacity building programme to help the multi-agency workforce to confidently address child obesity in their practice. View Building the workforce capacity to address healthy weight from conception to reception (PDF 1.9MB)
This note sets out available evidence from academic literature about what schools-based activities seem to have the biggest impact on childhood obesity; the strength of that evidence, and how easy different activities would be to scale and replicate on a wider level. View School interventions: guidance around the academic evidence on school based childhood obesity interventions (PDF 416KB)
Compared to London and nationally, Lambeth children have higher eligibility for free school meals. Research shows that school holidays are more challenging for families struggling economically, and affects not just families eligible for free school meals. This work aimed to understand how holiday hunger affects children and families living in Lambeth and provide recommendations on how to address this locally. View Exploring barriers and solutions to support children and families in food poverty (PDF 1.7MB)
Lambeth commissioned specific, locally-relevant, health promoting cooking sessions to be delivered in local schools. These cooking sessions were provided as part of a suite of activities intended to locally enhance a national media campaign encouraging children to eat more vegetables. View Bespoke school cookery lessons to enhance a national healthy eating campaign (PDF 3.6MB)
Childhood obesity is regarded by the World Health Organisation as ‘one of the most serious global public health challenges of the 21st century, affecting every country in the world'. In 2018 a summary fact sheet describing how obesity affects children in Lambeth was produced. View Why did Lambeth see a reduction in childhood obesity, bucking a national trend? (PDF 3MB)
The Soft Drinks Industry Levy took effect from April 2018. Revenue generated was provided for the Healthy Pupil Capital Fund (HPCF). Lambeth supported the London commitment to use the funds to tackle child obesity. The fund, allocated for capital use only, provided the opportunity for schools to take specific actions to address obesity. View Channelling the sugar levy to effectively address child obesity (PDF 2.6MB)
The JSNA for children and young people aims to provide the Local Authority, partner organisations, and the public, with information on the health and wellbeing of children and young people in Lambeth. It takes a life-course approach, and the chosen indicators provide an overview of the main milestones of children and young people, from maternity through to 25 years old. View Lambeth's JSNA for children and young people 2016/17 (PDF 4.3MB)
This JSNA summary provides detailed analysis to allow stakeholders to better develop services to improve the health and wellbeing of all children and young people, as well as closing gaps between more vulnerable groups and the general children’s population. View Lambeth's JSNA for children and young people 2016-17 - Summary (PDF 542KB)
The health and wellbeing of children and young people is a top priority in Lambeth. The future of Lambeth, the nation, and the planet depends on children growing up healthy, resilient and happy, but our focus on children is more than self-interest. Our annual report of the Director of Public Health from 2016/17 focusses on the health of children and young people in Lambeth. View the 2016/17 APHR - The health of children and young people in Lambeth (Full report) (PDF 4.7MB). View the 2016/17 APHR - The health of children and young people in Lambeth (Executive summary) (PDF 687KB)
This presentation of research into expected and detected prevalence of children with disabilities in Lambeth attempted to compare national and local estimates. View Disabilities in Lambeth: expected and detected prevalence 2017 (PDF 481KB)
The Lambeth SEND data compendium provides information on the epidemiology of children’s and young people’s disability in Lambeth. View The Lambeth Children and Young People Disability JSNA 2016-17 Data compendium (PDF 743KB)