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 sources of evidence at a local level. It also includes details of various sources of help and advice available across the region. Download the Local Evidence Guide here. Printed versions of the guide are also available free to anyone engaged in improving their local area ...
Read more... Published: Monday, March 26, 2007 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Evidence |
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 sources of evidence at a local level. It also includes details of various sources of help and advice available across the region. Download the Local Evidence Guide here. Printed versions of the guide are also available free to anyone engaged in improving their local area ...
Read more... Published: Monday, March 26, 2007 |
Category: Evidence Topic: Evidence |
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. 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 ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
Category: Evidence 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. 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 ...
Read more... Published: Monday, July 10, 2006 |
Category: Evidence 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. Click here to view the new site. As well as the obvious cosmetic changes, the website has been re-designed to provide:• a quicker, more straight-forward route to the information, • instant comparison of your area to higher geographical areas, • more up-front information in the data ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
Category: Evidence 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 area), regularly updated data (for the full list see here) Data4NR is a simple signposting tool that shows you where to find the data you need to support your work. While focussed on Neighbourhood Renewal (NR) themes, it will be of use to anyone needing to find data at a national ...
Read more... Published: Friday, May 12, 2006 |
Category: Evidence 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. The new NeSS datasets released have been released at Middle level Super Output Area (MSOA) and Lower Level Super Output Area (MSOA). For a guide to these geographic distinctions, please see NeSS web site. The new datasets include (smallest geography shown in brackets): Local Crime Data (Selected Offences): from Individual Police ...
Read more... Published: Friday, May 12, 2006 |
Category: Evidence 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 latest SELD progress update which you can download here.
Read more... Published: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
Category: Evidence Topic: Evidence |
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. The new NeSS datasets released include: Resident Population Estimates for Super Output Areas, mid 2001 to mid 2003 Resident Population Estimates by Ethnic Group, mid 2001 to mid 2003 Fires Attended by the Fire and Rescue Service, 2003 Land Use Statistics (Generalised Land Use Database) ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
Category: Evidence 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, 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. The report's key findings are summarised ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
Category: Evidence Topic: Evidence |