This update is one of a series for the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment in 2024. It is published here in draft form ahead of the Health and Wellbeing board’s September meeting. It includes data on mental health and wellbeing and some of the risk and protective factors, including financial pressures and volunteering.

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The review of mental health and wellbeing data for Oxfordshire shows that:

• Above average and increasing rates of school pupils supported with social, emotional and mental health needs.
• A very significant increase in secondary pupils recorded as persistent absentees.
• Rates of adult (GP-recorded) depression continuing to increase.
• Decline in unpaid carers reporting enough social contact.
• Financial pressures from unemployment, children in low-income households, fuel poverty, cost of renting.
• Above average rates of volunteering.

If you have any questions about this release, please contact us at jsna@oxfordshire.gov.uk.