OCSI news

Planning4care provides the intelligence that social care and health commissioners and providers need in order to improve service planning and delivery. Information and analysis from Planning4care enables local commissioners and providers to understand likely future care needs and service requirements under a range of alternative future planning scenarios. Planning4care is led by OCSI, who have [...]

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The September economic data has been added to the Local Economic Monitor, showing the latest information on jobs and unemployment, and house sales at local level.

Unemployment claimant data for September 2009: The figures include data on the number and proportion of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance, the ratio of claimants to available jobs, and the 12-monthly [...]

DataViz has launched! This is our project to support and improve public sector data visualisation, commissioned by the Department of Communities and Local Government.
Good data visualisation can help users explore and understand the patterns and trends in data, and also communicate that understanding to others to help them make robust decisions based on the data being [...]

The importance of the Data4nr service run by OCSI for the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG) has been recognised in the recently published statutory guidance on the economic assessment duty:
“The majority of nationally provided data sets for local development are signposted on data4nr.net (data for neighbourhoods and regeneration) and these are updated as [...]

The Cabinet Office Social Exclusion Task Force have just published their work on tackling social exclusion for older people in rural areas, feeding into the government’s Ageing Strategy ‘Building a Society for all Ages’. The work examines evidence on the social exclusion experienced by older people in rural areas, including needs analysis commissioned from OCSI.
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Public organisations increasingly need to understand local-level economic trends and drivers. To address this need, OCSI in partnership with GeoWise have developed the Local Economic Monitor (www.local-economic-monitor.org) to:

monitor key economic indicators for all English local authorities, showing the impact of recent trends;

visualise time series data, including change over recent periods;

present fully updated datasets, showing the [...]

OCSI have been commissioned by the Department of Communities and Local Government to carry out a review of the many approaches to visualising data. The project will seek to understand the potential for visualisations in the analysis and communication of data, and provide guidance for national and local analysts on making best use of visualisation.
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The Social Exclusion Task Force (SETF) at the Cabinet Office has commissioned OCSI to carry out needs analysis as part of the SETF “Services to older people in rural areas” project (project details and the call for evidence are here). This analysis brings together two of OCSI’s major programmes of work:

Identifying rural exclusion: We are working [...]

In work OCSI have led for the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG), Audit Commission and Local Government Association, we have identified how national and regional partners can more effectively support local partner research and analysis for decision-making. The report includes recommendations for national, regional, and local organisations for strengthening support for local partners.
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