Happy Christmas from OCSI

Case studies

• How Everton in the Community use Local Insight to strengthen funding bids
• 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

Data analysis

• What is the Scottish Community Needs Index?
• Differences in deprivation measures – A comparison of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) and Census ‘Household Deprivation’ indicators
• Understanding the relationship between social vulnerability and the Neighbourhood Flood Vulnerability Index
• Research for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for left behind neighbourhoods
• List of left behind neighbourhoods

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

• We are updating the English 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

• Final report of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for 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

OCSI news

• Job Vacancy: User Support Officer
• Job Vacancy: Customer Support Manager
• Sport England uses Community Needs Index within their Place Partnerships work
• Job vacancy: Communications and Client Care Officer
• Community Needs Index used to allocate funding for Know your Neighbourhood Fund

Research Projects

• Uncovering Sussex: How OCSI’s research helps Sussex Community Foundation to tackle poverty
• Everybody Needs Good Neighbourhoods: Insights from OCSI’s research on neighbourhood-based initiatives with Local Trust
• GambleAware – gambling harms data profiles
• Evaluation of funding data for Northamptonshire Community Foundation
• Analysis of rural deprivation in Northamptonshire

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
• Census 2021 – Housing stress in London
• Census 2021 – Economically inactive due to ill health
• What can Census 2021 tell us about ethnic diversity in England?
• Census 2021 – Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion