Measuring the scale of inequality in Warwickshire

The economic downturn of 2009 and 2010 had a huge impact on our ability to reduce inequalities across Warwickshire.  The evidence clearly identifies that the communities with the highest levels of need suffered disproportionately more than others during the past two years, and ‘the gap’ between our most and least deprived neighbourhoods has increased significantly. How do [...]

2011 Census – One month to go!

Plans are now well under way for the forthcoming Census Day, which takes place on Sunday 27th March 2011. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will be sending out questionnaires for around 25 million households to complete, asking about work, health, national identity, citizenship, ethnic background, education, second homes, language, marital status and so on. [...]

Accessible ‘PDF’ maps developed for High Speed Railway (HS2) consultation

In response to the Government’s plan to create a high speed railway linking London to the North (with a link to Birmingham and running through Warwickshire), Warwickshire County Council decided to create an ‘evidence base’ of information to share with the public and its partner organisations. Added to other information from the authority, such as [...]

Child Health Profiles Launched

Child Health Profiles have been developed for each local authority as part of the national Child and Maternal Health Observatory’s (ChiMat) work with West Midlands Public Health Observatory. These provide a snapshot of child health and wellbeing in February 2011. They are designed to help improve the health of children and tackle health inequalities by [...]

Winners of Young Local Authority of the Year Award! Another success for the Observatory!

Last week, three of the Partnership and Performance Unit (PPU), Emma Curtis, Kirsty Campbell and Kate McGrory (Warwickshire Observatory), along with Ben Cahill from Member Services entered this year’s Young Local Authority of the Year competition. They competed alongside 18 other teams from other Local Authorities. The initiative is part of the ‘Young UK and [...]

Observatory Managers Leading the Way!

Two managers within the Observatory team, Spencer Payne and Huw Davies, attended a Leadership Challenge event on the 10th February held by Warwickshire County Council (WCC). It was a full day event which saw officers from across the Council come together to look at a real life problem facing WCC and working in small groups [...]

Consultation on data transparency

CLG has this week launched a consultation on a proposed “Code of recommended practice for local authorities on data transparency”.  Linked to the ‘open data’ agenda, the proposed Code is concerned with making data generated by authorities available and accessible to the public. It is intended to set out the requirement to publish data and [...]

Coventry & Warwickshire Local Economic Assessment (draft for consultation)

Warwickshire County Council and Coventry City Council have undertaken a sub-regional economic assessment.  A draft economic assessment has now been produced - partners and stakeholders are invited to comment on this document.  A copy of the draft assessment is available below, along with a response form: Coventry & Warwickshire LEA (Draft) LEA Response Form For more [...]

Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) League Table

WCC have produced a ‘League Table’ for the 27 formally approved LEPs.  The following tables present the relative performance of the LEP areas. A range of readily accessibles socio-economic data-sets have been utilised, covering economic performance; business start-up, survival and growth rates; sectoral profiles; skill levels of the resident population; unemployment and employment rates. On each [...]

National consultation on measuring well-being…have your say

The Office for National Statistics is developing new measures of national well-being. The aim is that these new measures will cover the quality of life of people in the UK, environmental and sustainability issues, as well as the economic performance of the country. There is currently a consultation underway to gather views on what facters [...]