Happy Christmas from OCSI

Case studies

• Using Local Insight to effectively target Herts’ Holiday Activity and Food Programme
• West Sussex County Council use Local Insight reports function to plan surge testing
• Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation tackle urban health with Local Insight
• Sussex Community Foundation | Support grant assessment and attract funding with Local Insight
• How are Community Foundations benefiting from Local Insight?

Data analysis

• Understanding the relationship between social vulnerability and exposure to flood risk
• Research for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for left behind neighbourhoods
• List of left behind neighbourhoods
• Census 2021 – East of England has seen the largest population increase
• Where is the cost of living crisis likely to be hitting hardest?

Featured

• List of left behind neighbourhoods
• Census 2021 – East of England has seen the largest population increase
• Community Needs Index – measuring social and cultural factors
• LSOAs, LEPs and lookups : A beginner’s guide to statistical geographies

Indices of Deprivation

• Consultation – Updating the English Indices of Deprivation
• English Indices of Deprivation 2019
• Why the Indices of Deprivation are still important in the open data era
• Adventure playgrounds & Indices of Deprivation

left behind neighbourhoods

• Research for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for left behind neighbourhoods
• List of left behind neighbourhoods
• Levelling Up: what the plan is, and the role data will play
• Climate change and ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods
• Left behind neighbourhoods in Essex – A case study

OCSI news

• Community Needs Index used to allocate funding for Know your Neighbourhood Fund
• A new look for OCSI
• First small-area census outputs will be published on 2nd November
• Consultation – Updating the English Indices of Deprivation
• Creating data profiles for GambleAware

Research Projects

• Evaluation of funding data for Northamptonshire Community Foundation
• Analysis of rural deprivation in Northamptonshire
• Statistical area definitions and guidance on socio-economic indicators for LSE
• Left behind neighbourhoods in Essex – A case study
• Hounslow Equality Impact

Resources and data

• Community Needs Index 2023
• Census 2021 data: What has been released, what’s new and what’s changed?
• How to access ward boundary shapefiles
• How do councils present Census 2021 data?
• Research for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for left behind neighbourhoods

Uncategorized

• Tree cover, green space inequalities and deprivation in England
• Job Vacancy: Full Stack Web Developer (Mid-Level – Senior)
• Job Vacancy: Data Researcher
• Census 2021 – Housing stress in London
• Census 2021 – Economically inactive due to ill health