2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Is the council working in partnership with health services on active travel, home insulation, air pollution, green spaces or other climate action policies?

Question code
6.7
Section
Collaboration & Engagement
Topic
Health Services Partnership
Source
Volunteer Research
Question weight
Medium

Criteria

Criteria met if the council has embedded health services into their climate change work or if they have embedded climate change into their health partnership work. This includes embedding climate impacts into the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

Clarifications

For example, the criteria might be met by including climate experts such as scientists, policy makers and representatives from environmental NGOs on Health and Wellbeing boards and regularly including climate change on the agenda.

Question performance by council type

Points distribution county councils

0 points

4 county councils

1 point

17 county councils

Note: “in 2023” counts show how the councils listed below were marked on this question in 2023. This list of councils may be slightly different to the list of councils originally assessed on this question in 2023, due to the creation and abolition of councils between Scorecard years.

Rising and falling county councils

22
councils scored higher in 2025
11
councils scored lower in 2025

Scores and evidence county councils

CouncilScoreDifference2023Evidence
Cambridgeshire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Derbyshire County Council1/1▲ 1
Devon County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
East Sussex County Council1/1--
Essex County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Gloucestershire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Hampshire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Hertfordshire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Kent County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Leicestershire County Council1/1--
Norfolk County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Nottinghamshire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Oxfordshire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Suffolk County Council1/1--
Surrey County Council1/1▲ 1
Warwickshire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Worcestershire County Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Lancashire County Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Lincolnshire County Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
Staffordshire County Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
West Sussex County Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
▼ 0
0/1▼ -1Evidence doesn't meet criteria