Climate and health
Published: February 2026 Tackling Climate Change Together is one of the ambitions of Wakefield’s District Plan. This section of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment gives an overview of how the climate is changing and a summary of the consequences for health arising from this. It also provides some information the health benefits that can come...
Domestic Abuse
Published: October 2025 Domestic abuse is an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading or violent behaviour, including sexual violence, by a partner or ex-partner, family member or carer. It is legally defined in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. Headlines Domestic Abuse Police incident rates in Wakefield are similar to across West...
Food insecurity
Published: February 2026 A household can broadly be defined as experiencing food insecurity if they cannot (or are not sure whether they can) get an adequate quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways. The Food Standards Agency define food security as ‘having access at all times to enough food that is both...
Housing
Published: March 2025 Housing is widely recognised as a key social determinant of health. Housing conditions can impact physical and mental health; living in below standard homes can exacerbate some conditions and lead to poorer outcomes for the people who live there. The Wakefield Housing Plan 2023-2026 includes Better Homes within its three key themes,...