OCSI news

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 [...]

We have loaded a presentation onto Youtube, showing the OCSI Output Area Index of Multiple Deprivation data. The 10 minute movie gives you an overview of our research project  to explore and identify "hidden" pockets of deprivation in rural areas of Norfolk. The data is presented using the Geowise InstantAtlas software.
The movie is available here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lD8BRyye7A.

The OCSI modelled Index of Multiple Deprivation data at Output Area (OA) level is now available, covering all OAs across England.
The data was developed in work with the Norfolk Rural Community Council, and validated at national level by OCSI on a project commissioned by the national Commission for Rural Communities.
The OA datasets enable a more detailed examination [...]

The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) has published the OCSI report ‘Deprivation in rural areas: Quantitative analysis and socio-economic classification’ . The report is available from http://www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk/publications/deprivationquantitativefullreport.
OCSI were commissioned by CRC to undertake research to help fill gaps in the evidence base on rural deprivation, which was highlighted by the CRC Disadvantage Study in 2006. [...]

As part of this year’s Headstar conference on Geographic Information Systems in the Public Sector, OCSI Director Tom Smith ran a workshop for participants to highlight experiences of using geographic information (GI) to support policy in their organisation. The report of the workshop session is available.

Article in the EADT on OCSI’s ‘Deprivation in Rural Suffolk’ report for Suffolk A.C.R.E.
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Article on OCSI’s report for Suffolk ACRE and Suffolk County Council, highlighting a number of “hidden” deprived areas at Output Area level.
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Partners across Great Yarmouth need a clear picture of the priorities for programmes tackling deprivation, and an understanding of what interventions will produce the best outcomes in addressing social exclusion and inequality.
OCSI, partnering with Holden McAlister, have therefore, been commissioned to design and develop a set of recommendations for action by local partners. To arrive [...]

OCSI Chairman and co-founder Professor Michael Noble has been awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to research on poverty and deprivation.
Michael runs the Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) and the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy (CASASP) at the University of Oxford. SDRC has just completed the [...]

Analysis of the 2007 Indices of Deprivation for New Start by Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) showed a drop in the number of areas across the north featuring in the list of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods since the last figures in 2004.
The statistics were released by the government alongside details of council funding [...]