Population Turnover in Warwickshire

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently published figures on population turnover at the local level. The extent to which a population changes over time has implications for a wide variety of themes, such as community cohesion, economic dependency, social isolation and sustainable communities. The figures, produced at Middle-layer Super Output Area (MSOA), provide [...]

Mapping the ageing population

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just released a useful interactive mapping tool to help visualise the changing age profile of the UK.  The tool provides district-level figures and illustrates the trends taking place between 1992 and 2033. The tool lets you examine a number of things… At what age is half the population [...]

Unemployment figures for Warwickshire released today

Jobless figures have been released today by the Office for National Statistics for December 2011. The Job Seekers’ Allowance (JSA) claimant count in December 2011 was 8,274 in Warwickshire; a rate of 2.4% of the resident working age population. This represents a fall of 9 claimants or -0.1% from the previous month. Unemployment Update – December [...]

Mosaic Profiles – Drug and Alcohol Treatment Needs Assessments

As part of the Drug Treatment and Alcohol Treatment Needs Assessments, (click here for full assessments) the Observatory were commissioned to gain a greater understanding of clients in drug treatment and those admitted to hospital for alcohol-related conditions in the County. The aim of these reports are to profile alcohol-related hospital admissions and clients in treatment for drug [...]

Warwickshire Drug Treatment and Alcohol Treatment Needs Assessments 2011/12 – Full Assessments Published

The Observatory has been working closely with Warwickshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team (WDAAT) to produce their annual needs assessments for both alcohol treatment and drug treatment. This year was the first time that the Observatory have produced the assessments as WDAAT felt it was important to examine a wider breadth of demographic and socio-economic [...]

Quality of Life Report discussed at Warwick District Council’s Executive Committee

The Observatory’s recent Quality of Life in Warwickshire 2011/12 report was discussed this week at Warwick District Council’s Executive Committee, the authority’s main decision making body.  The committee was recommended to use the report to inform the council’s key strategic plans during 2012, including Fit for the Future and the Local Plan, as well as [...]

Public and Private Sector Employment in Warwickshire

The level of public sector employment has been a focus of attention during the economic downturn and the sector is considered to be particularly vulnerable as the impact of austerity budgeting is felt.  Our graphic presents various measures of how reliant, or not, each of our districts is on the public sector for local employment.  The [...]

Using Mosaic to better understand households in Warwickshire

Better understanding the likely needs of Warwickshire residents in order to develop and deliver more appropriately tailored services has become an increasingly important area of work in recent years. Using a profiling tool such as Mosaic is one way in which local authorities can begin to do this. Mosaic uses a wide range of data [...]

New statistics on fly-tipping in Warwickshire

Last month, Defra published new statistics on the number of fly-tipping incidents recorded across all local authority areas in England and Wales.  The latest figures, covering the year 2010/11, illustrated a 13.5% reduction in the number of incidents recorded nationally.  This may seem like a relatively unusual dataset to comment on through this blog, but [...]

Minerals & Waste Annual Monitoring Report Published

The 2010/11 Minerals & Waste Development Framework (MWDF) Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) for Warwickshire has been published on 30th December 2011. This report is a statutory document, required by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (2004), and will remain so under the new Localism Act 2010, to monitor how we are progressing with the preparation [...]