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Barnet Council is pleased to announce the launch of a new healthy weight service for adolescents, in partnership with DDM’s Gro Health platform. This new service is designed specifically to support young people aged 14-19 in managing their weight, improving physical and mental health, and developing the skills needed for long-term health and wellbeing.

Recent car seat safety checks in Barnet have revealed that 95% of child car seats were installed incorrectly after 45 seats were checked, with a total of 100 errors. These findings come following free car seat checking sessions organised across Barnet to help residents identify and avoid common car seat errors, as part of a partnership between Barnet Council and Good Egg Safety.

A woman has been given a 12-month community order and a fine of £16,814 after being caught selling toxic skin-lightening products that are banned in the UK. Ofure Patience Ehizode admitted selling products containing dangerous chemicals known to cause serious health problems through her business EllaGold Ltd.

Barnet is celebrating Black History Month this October, with a vibrant month-long celebration of events, around this year’s theme of ‘Reclaiming Narratives’.

Barnet Council is publicising an information gathering exercise being led by The Greater London Authority (GLA) on identifying places where new housing could be built. This will form part of what is known as a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) in the LAND4LDN project as part of the new London Plan to meet the needs of a growing population in our capital city.

Leader of Barnet Council, Cllr Barry Rawlings, said: “Today, it is one year since the terrorist attacks of 7 October in Israel. “We remember the immense loss and grief experienced by so many in Barnet’s Jewish community. And the pain of the hostages and their families - those killed and those still in captivity who must be released.

This month marks one year since the council officially opened its revamped CCTV control room following a £2.3million investment in expanding and upgrading the borough’s CCTV network to clamp down on criminal and anti-social behaviour.

To mark World Mental Health Day, Thursday 10 October, Barnet Council has launched a new mental health and wellbeing strategy designed to promote the mental wellbeing of children and young people. The strategy was created following consultation and engagement with residents, youth and parent groups and using insights from national and local data.

Barnet Council has appointed Naisha Polaine as Executive Director of Growth to lead some of London’s most ambitious regeneration programmes. The council has one of London’s most ambitious growth strategies, with major development and regeneration schemes taking place in neighbourhoods across the borough, including the new £8bn net zero Brent Cross Town.

Barnet Council has successfully prosecuted a shopkeeper for selling vapes to an underage teenager, resulting in a penalty of nearly £2,000. Dr Rizwan Manzoor Hussain, of The Lindens, Friern Park, was caught selling a vape to an underage teenager at Vape City London in Finchley during a routine inspection by council officers.