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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 ...   Read more... on "Building Houses or Creating Communities?"
Published: Tue, 22 May 2007
Topic:
Housing

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 ...   Read more... on "Local Evidence Guide"
Published: Mon, 26 March 2007
Topic:
Evidence

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?   Read more... on "Finding Data for Small Areas"
Published: Mon, 09 October 2006
Topic:
Information and communication

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.   Read more... on "What's your happy planet score?"
Published: Mon, 31 July 2006
Topic:
Environmental protection

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 ...   Read more... on "Top Tips for Local Information Systems"
Published: Fri, 28 July 2006
Topic:
Intelligence

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.   Read more... on "Free Local Travel Survey Toolkit"
Published: Fri, 28 July 2006
Topic:
Transport

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 ...   Read more... on "Get your message across in 1-3-25"
Published: Wed, 12 July 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "Ecological Footprint Evidence"
Published: Mon, 10 July 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "Finding local data just got easier!"
Published: Fri, 12 May 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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.   Read more... on "New Neighbourhood Renewal data on Neighbourhood Statistics"
Published: Fri, 12 May 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "SELD the story so far…"
Published: Tue, 09 May 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "Education and minority ethnic pupils (FREE Event)"
Published: Wed, 12 April 2006
Topic:
Education

New data on Neighbourhood Statistics

Neighbourhood Statistics (NeSS) has just released various new sets of data which may be of interest for your work. The data covers areas such as: Population, Fires, Land-use, Births and Education.   Read more... on "New data on Neighbourhood Statistics"
Published: Wed, 12 April 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "State of the English Cities"
Published: Thu, 23 March 2006
Topic:
Evidence

Local Information Systems Research

ODPM's Neighbourhood Renewal Unit is currently undertaking a national research project into local regeneration information systems. The report will be published in July 2006 and it follows a scoping study carried out in 2005.   Read more... on "Local Information Systems Research"
Published: Mon, 13 March 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "The Performance Improvement Hub"
Published: Mon, 13 March 2006
Topic:
Charities

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 ...   Read more... on "ORRION - NRU Online Race Resource"
Published: Wed, 01 March 2006
Topic:
Equal opportunities

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 ...   Read more... on "National Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP)"
Published: Wed, 01 March 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "Performance Management Resources from IDeA"
Published: Wed, 01 March 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "GIS information sharing systems - national review"
Published: Wed, 01 March 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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 ...   Read more... on "Final Report on Data Provision for Neighbourhood Renewal Now Available"
Published: Thu, 23 February 2006
Topic:
Evidence

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