Archive: Supporting Evidence for Local Delivery (SELD)

Building Houses or Creating Communities?

In its role as independent sustainable development watchdog, the SDC has undertaken its first thematic review. The report is based on site visits and interviews with local authorities, developers and residents and assesses whether the Government has delivered on its promise to create sustainable communities.

Published May 22, 2007 - 04:22 PM
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Local Evidence Guide

Creating Excellence recently published a handy guide to finding local data and statistics in the south west. The Local Evidence Guide has been produced in response to demand for basic guidance to finding the best available sources of evidence at a local level. It also includes details of various sources of help and advice available across the region.

Published Mar 26, 2007 - 04:21 PM
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Finding Data for Small Areas

Trying to find datasets across different themes which are available at a local level? Looking for local area data which is frequently updated for use in monitoring and evaluation?

Published Oct 09, 2006 - 02:37 PM
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Community Health Profiles

The Department of Health have just released a new set of health profiles for Local Authority Areas. Simply find your area and download a simple profile of health and health inequality for your area: www.communityhealthprofiles.info

For further Health data also see the South West Public Health Observatory’s website at: www.swpho.nhs.uk

Published Aug 04, 2006 - 02:38 PM
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What's your happy planet score?

The Happy Planet Index is an innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered around the world.

Published Jul 31, 2006 - 03:00 PM
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Top Tips for Local Information Systems

If you are managing a local information system or thinking about creating one then you’re not alone. The growing need for bringing together data and information across various socio-economic themes means that local information systems are popping up all across the country. A list of top tips for developing such systems can be downloaded here.

Published Jul 28, 2006 - 10:45 AM
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Free Local Travel Survey Toolkit

Do you have an interest in conducting/using household or general population travel surveys at a local or regional level? A free toolkit has just been published to help.

Published Jul 28, 2006 - 09:31 AM
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Get your message across in 1-3-25

SELDSW’s Nick Harrison recently attended the fifth international Evidence based policy conference held in London which represented academics and policy-makers from over 15 countries internationally. The conference was packed with useful ideas for how to improve the use of evidence in policy-making including simple and effective solutions such as the Canadian 1-3-25 method of reporting (click below to read more). Full proceedings, contacts and downloads of papers presented at the conference can be found on the conference website at: www.cemcentre.org/eb2006/

Published Jul 12, 2006 - 11:59 AM
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Ecological Footprint Evidence

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has a selection of useful resources available to help with the assessment of environmental impact and progress towards sustainable development. Their website ‘Ecological Budget UK’ provides access to databases of comparable information together with a new software tool to inform decisions aimed at reducing environmental impact. The ‘Resources and Energy Analysis Programme’ (REAP) was created by the Stockhom Environment Institute (SEI), and can be viewed at the REAP web site.

Published Jul 10, 2006 - 09:43 AM
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New Neighbourhood Statistics

Following extensive consultation and user research, together with the adoption of a new approach to 'User Centred Design', the Office for National Statistics have just released a new version of their website. Click here to view the new site.

Published Jun 28, 2006 - 01:36 PM
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Finding local data just got easier!

If you’re looking for data relating to: population, deprivation, employment, education, health, housing, crime or liveability then you need to check out data4nr.net.  It now includes 44 different sources of local (small area), regularly updated data (for the full list see here)

Published May 12, 2006 - 02:52 PM
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New Neighbourhood Renewal data on Neighbourhood Statistics

Neighbourhood Statistics (NeSS) released various new sets of data in May 2006, many of which relate to Neighbourhood Renewal themes and may be of interest for your work.

Published May 12, 2006 - 02:40 PM
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SELD the story so far…

SELD has been fully operational for over 6 months now so what is it all about? Who are they? What are they doing? What do they plan to do next? How can they help you? Answers to all these questions and more can be found in the latest SELD progress update which you can download here.

Published May 09, 2006 - 09:19 AM
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Education and minority ethnic pupils (FREE Event)

Last chance to book your place on the FREE SELD learning and networking event taking place in Bristol on Friday 21st April. The day will focus on finding and using evidence to improve educational outcomes for minority ethnic pupils and will explore the evidence available, identify gaps, showcase practical examples and provide an opportunity to meet and share experiences and ideas with other professionals.

Published Apr 12, 2006 - 10:43 AM
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New data on Neighbourhood Statistics

Published Apr 12, 2006 - 10:31 AM
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State of the English Cities

State of the English Cities is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of England's cities and towns.  Published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) in March 2006, it focuses on 56 major towns and cities in England (including Swindon, Gloucester, Bristol and Plymouth in the South West) and covers five main themes: demographics, social cohesion, economic competitiveness & performance, liveability, governance & the impact of policy.

Published Mar 23, 2006 - 12:01 PM
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Local Information Systems Research

Published Mar 13, 2006 - 01:44 PM
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The Performance Improvement Hub

Interested in improving the performance of your voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisation?  Or perhaps you are supporting VCS organisations to improve their performance?  Either way, The Performance Hub maybe just what you’re looking for.

Published Mar 13, 2006 - 11:56 AM
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ORRION - NRU Online Race Resource

ORRION is the Online Race Resource for Improving Neighbourhoods.  Its purpose is to assist partnerships to achieve better outcomes for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities.  The resource includes specific treatment of data issues, performance management and engagement of BME communities.  Visit the Renewal.net web site to use this toolkit.

Published Mar 01, 2006 - 03:10 PM
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National Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP)

The final report of the formative evaluation and action research research programme 2002-2005.  This report highlights, amongst other things. the need to strengthen the policy framework for LSP development, and the need to take action to build leadership capacity and enhance the contributions of Councillors, and the voluntary, community, and business sectors. 

Published Mar 01, 2006 - 02:58 PM
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Performance Management Resources from IDeA

The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) has a growing collection of resources available to support your performance management activities.  Some recent useful resources are detailed below and the full list is available from IDeA's web site.

Published Mar 01, 2006 - 02:17 PM
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GIS information sharing systems - national review

The Home Office has just published a report which may be of interest about data sharing systems using Geographical Information Systems (GIS).  The report reviews a number of systems from across the country summarising strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.  Ideal if you are setting up or developing such an approach to sharing and analysing data locally.

Published Mar 01, 2006 - 01:59 PM
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Trying to find data for Neighbourhood Renewal?

www.data4nr.net is the new signposting tool designed to assist you to locate data to support the delivery of neighbourhood renewal.  Data4nr helps you to locate resources by floor target theme (you can also filter data sets by: sub-district level, regularity of update, age, gender and ethnic group).  Whilst this web site does not hold the actual data sets, it provides comprehensive descriptions of data and links to their source.

Published Mar 01, 2006 - 01:24 PM
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Final Report on Data Provision for Neighbourhood Renewal Now Available

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has just published its useful final report on data provision for neighbourhood renewal.  This is a significant piece of work, particularly relevant to people involved in neighbourhood renewal, regeneration, funding, Local Strategic Partnerships, and Local Area Agreements.

Published Feb 23, 2006 - 04:45 PM
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