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Resources and data

How to calculate your grant funding per head of the population

7th January 2019

  94 grantmakers are now publishing their funding data as open data…
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Data analysis

Small area benefits measures from DWP: What has changed and what does it mean?

14th December 2018

  There have been a number of changes in the local level…
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OCSI news

Looking back at Data4Good

22nd November 2018

  If ever there was a time of year to get an…
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Research Projects

Understanding the narrative behind the numbers

29th October 2018

  The data that underpins  Local Insight is used by more than…
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OCSI news

Big Local Connects – the lowdown

10th September 2018

  For the last 18 months, Local Trust have been using Local…
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OCSI news

Job Vacancy: Junior Data Researcher

20th August 2018

  *** THIS POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED *** We are looking…
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Case studies

Support for place-based commissioning in Wirral

26th July 2018

  The final installment of case studies focusing on Wirral Metropolitan Borough…
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Case studies

Use Local Insight to share and communicate data across your organisation

19th July 2018

  In the first instalment of case studies from Wirral Council, we…
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Case studies

Freeing up time and resources in Wirral with Local Insight

12th July 2018

  Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council is a unitary authority in the North…
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Data analysis

New estimates on vacant dwellings at a local level – what can they tell us?

30th April 2018

Overview Census estimates of vacant dwellings are a helpful measure of the…
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Data analysis

House price changes in England | The national, local and super-local picture

20th February 2018

  The cost of housing is never far from the policy agenda…
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OCSI news

Why does a commercial organisation go to UKGovCamp anyways?

2nd February 2018

  Darting between puddles and rail replacement buses, two intrepid members of…
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OCSI news

Seeing the wood for the CSVs

29th January 2018

  “Data Expeditions are quests to map uncharted territory, discover hidden stories…
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Data analysis

Understanding small area child poverty data across the UK

26th January 2018

  Child poverty has hit the headlines again as End Child Poverty…
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Data analysis

What can personal debt data at a local level tell us?

3rd January 2018

  It’s a new year – and we are starting as we…
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Data analysis

Was your favourite Christmas TV special set in a town near you?!

14th December 2017

  There is nothing better over the Christmas holidays than eating your…
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