The Warwickshire Blueprint Project

The Observatory has recently completed a new, innovative and forward-looking piece of analysis entitled the Blueprint Project. The project takes the form of a series of visual map-based presentations to show analysis for a range of existing demographic, economic, social, environmental and transport related datasets.  A further set of slides then detail some of the [...]

New Government Website Launched – Data.gov.uk

Data.gov.uk is a new UK Government website offering free access to a large amount of public sector data for private or commercial reuse. The website was officially launched today – Thursday 21st January 2010. The aim of the website is to encourage UK web developers and companies to create websites and information feeds that combine the data with [...]

Preventing Accidental Dwelling Fires in Warwickshire

As part of our work on Customer Insight, the Observatory has just completed some research into the profile of households suffering accidental dwelling fires (ADFs) across Warwickshire.  The analysis will help Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service target certain types of households more effectively and get fire safety messages to the right people in the right [...]

Warwickshire District Profiles

The Observatory has recently produced a set of District profiles for Warwickshire. The profiles provide information on the population structure (including age, ethnicity and projected population growth), health, the economy, employment, education, crime and the environment for each of the Districts. The data is categorised under the six Local Area Agreement (LAA) blocks:  Children and [...]

Latest Minerals & Waste Annual Monitoring Report is published

The 2008/09 Minerals & Waste Development Framework (MWDF) Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) has been published on 31st December 2009. This report is a statutory document, required by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (2004) to monitor how we are progressing with the preparation of the new MWDF and how well the key objectives, currently based [...]

Warwickshire Teenage Pregnancy Profiles

Working with the Respect Yourself  Campaign Team at the County Council, Warwickshire Observatory have just  produced a set of Teenage Pregnancy Profiles covering each Borough and District in the County. Designed to provide a ‘snapshot’ of teenage pregnancy accross the County, the profiles highlight information on teenage conceptions, births, young mothers and their involvement in [...]

Happy New Year from the Observatory