Troubled Families Programme – Work Progressing in Warwickshire

The Troubled Families programme is a new initiative led by Communities and Local Government (CLG) to ‘turn around’ 120,000 families nationally over the next three years. Significant funding is being made available to local partnerships to address a range of social and economic issues affecting households. The Observatory has been commissioned to collate the data on [...]

Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010 Report for Warwickshire

We blogged about the release of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (IMD 2010) earlier this year (see previous blog post).  The IMD 2010 is the official measure of deprivation in England and the purpose of the indices is to identify small areas (Super Output Areas) which are experiencing multiple aspects of deprivation. The Observatory has now produced a full [...]

UPDATED: Indices of Deprivation 2010

The Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2010) was released last month by Communities and Local Government.  The IMD 2010 attempts to measure a broader concept of multiple deprivation at a smaller geographical level. Below are Warwickshire’s updated ‘Key Findings’ and ‘Local Authority Summaries:’ UPDATED Indices of Deprivation 2010 – Warwickshire’s Key Findings UPDATED Indices of Deprivation 2010 [...]

Deprivation in Warwickshire

The Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (IMD 2010) released last week is the official measure of deprivation in England. The purpose of IMD 2010 is to identify small areas (Super Output Areas) which are experiencing multiple aspects of deprivation. The raw data released by Communities and Local Government can be downloaded from their website, however below are the [...]

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 [...]

Public Data Corporation to Free up Public Data

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and Business Minister Edward Davey have outlined plans for a new Public Data Corporation. The Corporation will, for the first time, bring together Government bodies and data into one organisation and provide an unprecedented level of easily accessible public information and drive further efficiency in the delivery of [...]

Government initiative for national addressing

In recognition of the substantial social and economic benefits that a single definitive national spatial address register would bring the government has announced it will bring together address information from Ordnance Survey and local authorities to create a ‘national address gazetteer database’, providing one definitive source of accurate publicly-owned spatial address data, for the whole of [...]

January 2011 Newsletter

This month sees the launch of our first ‘Warwickshire Observatory Newsletter’. Here you can see the work we’re currently involved in and some of the projects headed our way. There will be three newsletters produced per year alongside the regular updates we provide both on the blog and on our website. Warwickshire Observatory Newsletter – [...]

Warwickshire Locality Profiles 2011

If you’re looking for data and information about Warwickshire why not try the Locality Profiles that have just been published by the Warwickshire Observatory? Localities are geographical areas and there are 30 of them in the county. The profiles provide a contextual overview of each Locality with a basic introduction to the geographical area and [...]

New Household Projections released 2008 – 2033

The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) released the 2008-based household projections on Friday 26th November.   The projections are trend-based and indicate the number of additional households that would form over the next 25 years if recent demographic trends continue. The projections are available at Local Authority level and are attached below: CLG – Household [...]