Welcome to the OCSI Blog! We’ll be using this for short pieces on projects and conferences we’re involved with.
The aim is to highlight issues of general interest. But we’ll be staying relatively close to our focus on improving the evidence-base for public sector decision-making. So it will be more Sub-National Review than Strictly Come Dancing, more Local [...]
OCSI presented our work on rural deprivation at a seminar on December 5th organised by the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). You can download the seminar programme, and the OCSI presentation.
For further information on our rural deprivation work for CRC see www.ocsi.co.uk/projects/rural-share.php, and for our rural [...]
The Data for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration (Data4nr) tool - www.data4nr.net - has been updated and extended. Commissioned from OCSI by the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG), Data4nr identifies and signposts the datasets available for targeting, monitoring, priority setting and performance management at a neighbourhood level.
This update is part of the development being carried out [...]
Data for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration (Data4nr) is a website tool - www.data4nr.net - that signposts users to neighbourhood-level regeneration and renewal related data and resources across a range of data suppliers (including Neighbourhood Statistics, Nomis, DWP, DCSF etc). The tool was developed by OCSI, and commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG).
OCSI are currently [...]
OCSI Director Tom Smith will be chairing the LGC conference ‘Improving Public Sector Information Management 2008 - Delivering integrated services through stronger information management and business intelligence’.
The event is designed to help public sector manage, share and use information more effectively across services and partnerships, to deliver integrated services to your community. The conference agenda [...]
The Local Area Agreements agenda critically requires local partners to effectively assess and monitor the impacts of partnership programmes across their areas. The Department for Communities and Local Government commissioned OCSI to examine indicators for target setting and performance assessment at neighbourhood level, in the context of the data needs emerging from the LAA process. [...]
Read more...OCSI have produced a comprehensive mapping of socio-economic data across the South-East for the six core equality groups - gender, age, ethnicity, disability, faith, and sexual orientation. The Equalities and Diversity Data Tool provides baseline data on these groups, as well as comparisons against the whole population.
The work was commissioned from OCSI by the South-East [...]
Focus on Local Statistics: Inform and Engage. An article by OCSI Director Tom Smith on the power of local Data Observatories to inform and engage public and local community groups.
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Article appearing in the Norwich Evening News regarding a report by OCSI and Holden McAllister on deprivation in Norwich.
See the on-line article for links to more maps.
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OCSI Director Tom Smith spoke at the Making Local Information Systems (LIS) work in your area: Improving performance and service outcomes conference, held at the Local Government Association.
The presentation covered recent work carried out by OCSI on Supporting local research and analysis: understanding demand and improving capacity, identifying how national and regional organisations can best support [...]
