Building Houses or Creating Communities? | |
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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... Published: Tue, 22 May 2007 |
Topic: Housing |
Local Evidence Guide | |
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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... Published: Mon, 26 March 2007 |
Topic: Evidence |
Finding Data for Small Areas | |
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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... Published: Mon, 09 October 2006 |
Topic: Information and communication |
Community Health Profiles | |
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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: ...
Read more... Published: Fri, 04 August 2006 |
Topic: Health |
What's your happy planet score? | |
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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... Published: Mon, 31 July 2006 |
Topic: Environmental protection |
Top Tips for Local Information Systems | |
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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... Published: Fri, 28 July 2006 |
Topic: Intelligence |
Free Local Travel Survey Toolkit | |
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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... Published: Fri, 28 July 2006 |
Topic: Transport |
Get your message across in 1-3-25 | |
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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... Published: Wed, 12 July 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
Ecological Footprint Evidence | |
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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... Published: Mon, 10 July 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
New Neighbourhood Statistics | |
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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 ...
Read more... Published: Wed, 28 June 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
Finding local data just got easier! | |
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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... Published: Fri, 12 May 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
New Neighbourhood Renewal data on Neighbourhood Statistics | |
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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... Published: Fri, 12 May 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
SELD the story so far… | |
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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... Published: Tue, 09 May 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
Education and minority ethnic pupils (FREE Event) | |
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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... Published: Wed, 12 April 2006 |
Topic: Education |
New data on Neighbourhood Statistics | |
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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... Published: Wed, 12 April 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
State of the English Cities | |
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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... Published: Thu, 23 March 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
Local Information Systems Research | |
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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... Published: Mon, 13 March 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
The Performance Improvement Hub | |
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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... Published: Mon, 13 March 2006 |
Topic: Charities |
ORRION - NRU Online Race Resource | |
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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... Published: Wed, 01 March 2006 |
Topic: Equal opportunities |
National Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP) | |
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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... Published: Wed, 01 March 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
Performance Management Resources from IDeA | |
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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... Published: Wed, 01 March 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
GIS information sharing systems - national review | |
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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... Published: Wed, 01 March 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
Trying to find data for Neighbourhood Renewal? | |
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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 ...
Read more... Published: Wed, 01 March 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |
Final Report on Data Provision for Neighbourhood Renewal Now Available | |
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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... Published: Thu, 23 February 2006 |
Topic: Evidence |