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Season’s Greetings from OCSI

18th December 2014

    Season’s Greetings  From all of the OCSI team We hope…
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Consultation for updating the English Indices of Deprivation

13th November 2014

OCSI is updating the Indices of Deprivation on behalf of The Department…
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The Living Wage: What has already been achieved?

11th November 2014

Last week was Living Wage Week and it’s encouraging to see a…
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Living Wage – a personal view

4th November 2014

As an organisation helping public & community services tackle social and economic…
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Community Insight: A finalist in the ODI Open Data Awards

29th October 2014

Last week we were over the moon to find out that OCSI…
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Indices of Deprivation event

29th October 2014

OCSI  and The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) are updating the…
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A month in the life of OCSI

20th October 2014

Starting a new job is always an exciting time; new office, new…
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Shortlisted for Open Data Awards!

20th October 2014

It’s always great when you can start the working week with some…
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Updating the Indices of Deprivation – Your Views

7th July 2014

We have been commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government…
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Taking Account 3: The Value of Volunteering

3rd July 2014

New research by Brighton and Hove Community Works shows the high value of…
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OCSI analysis for the national evaluation of Children’s Centres

19th June 2014

We’ve recently been working on the national evaluation of Children’s Centres together,…
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OCSI Living Wage Intern Programme

16th May 2014

The OCSI Living Wage Intern Programme is really important for us as…
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Updating the Indices of Deprivation

9th May 2014

We’re over the moon to have been selected by the UK Department…
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Job vacancy: Graduate/junior developer

17th January 2014

The role This is a great opportunity to work on challenging projects…
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Happy Christmas from OCSI

20th December 2013

That time of year’s arrived again! We’re signing off for Christmas now…
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OCSI and the Dream Factory

10th September 2013

Lately, Brighton has been awash with a strange crowd. Alongside the usual…
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Bringing the right data to the party

5th September 2013

Our work at OCSI can pretty much be summed up as “good…
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OCSI and the Democratic Workplace

21st June 2013

Being built on Open Data and Open Source tools, we loved the idea of open, participative processes in the workplace.

This is how we turned lessons learnt about “Democratic Workplace” into the OCSI office shuffle.

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Want to work at the cutting edge of technology, open data and public services?

13th June 2013

Junior data developer, Brighton, three month contract (with possible extension)

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Data geeks and decision-making talk

12th June 2013

OCSI’s own Tom Smith spoke last week at the Open Data Institute #ODIFridays lunch-time lecture….
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Why data geeks don’t make decisions

22nd May 2013

Open data might be fuel, but fuel on its own doesn’t get you anywhere. To improve public services you need to translate the raw data material into whatever helps people solve their problems. So, how do we bridge the gap from open data geeks to decision-makers?

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Welfare reform data briefing

22nd May 2013

Accompanying piece to previous blog providing an overview of the statistical outputs that will be provided under then new benefits system.

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Welfare reforms and open data

14th May 2013

How the changes to the benefits system will impact the data available to target resources and evaluate how local areas are changing over time.

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Supporting BlueLightCamp

27th April 2013

BlueLightCamp lands this weekend, following the same unconference format as UK GovCamp and CityCamp…
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“We don’t need data – we know our areas”

25th April 2013

A recent comment from somebody doing excellent work in community regeneration and…
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CityCamp Brighton!

19th March 2013

Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th March 2013 We’ve been going to CityCamp…
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Sense and census necessity

12th February 2013

John Perry OCSI have been working with HACT to develop Population Insight,…
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HACT and OCSI launch free Population Insight tool for housing sector

11th February 2013

The new data tool gives housing providers free access to Census 2011…
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What did the census feeding frenzy tell us about housing?

7th January 2013

What can we find for housing in the midst of the census…
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OCSI Review: Changes in housing tenure across England and Wales

13th December 2012

Following the release of the 2011 Census data in December 2012, we…
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Reviews

13th December 2012

Following the release of the recently published Census 2011 data; Key and…
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Community Insight; Open data tool allowing housing staff to understand social trends

10th December 2012

In the two weeks since we have launched Community Insight, we’ve heard some…
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Always on the lookout for talent

6th December 2012

Want to use your knowledge and skills to make a difference in…
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Unique new Health Profiles available for Acre

3rd December 2012

ACRE produces unique area based Health Profiles. Action with Communities in Rural…
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New open data tool helps housing providers target effective community investment

27th November 2012

Community Insight is a new online community mapping and reporting tool enabling…
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What the newly released census data can tell you about your local area

23rd November 2012

The first set of small area data from the Census 2011 was…
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Census 2011 key stats for small areas pushed back to end of January

7th November 2012

Census population figures at small area level This release will provide the…
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Census local area data lands in November

26th October 2012

Date for Census 2011 Second release (local area data) The next release…
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Want to work at the cutting edge of technology, open data and public services?

2nd October 2012

Junior data developer, Brighton, permanent About the role Want to use your…
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