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 [...]
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. [...]
