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Health profiles for four communities in Swindon (Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian, and Pakistani) are available in PDF format which can be viewed or downloaded from the Community Profiles page under ‘Profiles & Tools’.

‘Achieving a smoke free society’, Swindon’s latest Tobacco Control Strategy 2023-2028 has now been published and is available to view or download from the  Health and Wellbeing Strategies page of the website.

The findings from a recent qualitative evaluation of the ‘Dads at their Best’ service has been published. ‘Dads at their Best’ (DATB) began in April 2022 and it provides intensive support to first time young fathers and young fathers-to-be within the Swindon area. The DATB programme is funded by Swindon Borough Council. The long-term vision …

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ONS released a census maps tool earlier this year which was updated last month to also show ten-year changes since census 2011. The tool can easily be “interrogated” to produce maps and allows the user to extract/download information on different topics down to a neighbourhood level. It can be accessed via the ONS website. More …

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Using data from the 2021 Census, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have produced a tool to create custom datasets. You can do this here.

Using data from the 2021 Census, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have produced an interactive tool to explore how the population has changed by local authority. You can view the data for Swindon here.

The Director of Public Health has a statutory requirement, under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to produce an annual report detailing the health of the population. The purpose of this report is to provide insight into the health of people in Swindon.  The 2022 report focuses on ‘Levelling Up’, the national strategy based …

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Office for National Statistics (ONS) produce annual mid-year estimates of the size of the national and sub-national population in the UK.  The latest figures were released on 6th May 2020. They are for mid-year 2019 and are down to local authority level. They show that Swindon’s resident population has grown to 222,193. This is up …

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In the Autumn of 2021, Swindon Borough Council’s public health team conducted a survey of Swindon’s residents – a continuation of the survey that run in the summer of 2020 – in order to gain insight into the physical, mental and material well-being of the population, and the changes in their health and well-being that …

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