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Analytical tools - Toolkits

Assessing neighbourhood-level data for target setting

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Child Poverty Toolkit

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  • DescriptionThese tools are intended to help users understand their local child poverty context, to help engage partners and to understand how policy should be developed. The toolkit includes: a short power point presentation generated specifically for a users area with context, high level up-to-date indicators, and national and regional comparators; and a longer, data rich, presentation generated a users area with assistance on how to interpret trends;
  • Linkhttp://www.childpovertytoolkit.org.uk/Data-Tools

Data sharing for Neighbourhood Renewal: Lessons from the North West

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Equality and diversity tool

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  • DescriptionIn order to support existing efforts to comply with the various Equality Schemes and the emerging Single Equality Act, SEEDA and SEE-IN have produced a comprehensive mapping of socio-economic data for the six core equality groups against their geography of interest. The E & D Data Tool enables colleagues in partner agencies (public, private and 3rd sector) to access baseline data on these groups.
  • Linkhttp://www.see-in.co.uk/researchdatabase/2008/equalityanddiversitydatatool.html

Health Inequalities Intervention Tool

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  • DescriptionThis tool provides information on the following: The current life expectancy in each local authority, and in the most deprived quintile of each local authority; the current gap in life expectancy between the most deprived quintile and the local authority as a whole for all areas, and between the local authority and England for spearhead areas; an analysis of the contribution of causes of death to the gap between the most deprived quintile of the local authority and a variety of comparators.
  • Linkhttp://www.lho.org.uk/HEALTH_INEQUALITIES/Health_Inequalities_Tool.aspx

Knowing your communities Toolkit

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Locally Held Administrative Data (LHAD) Project

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LSP Floor Target Action Plan Toolkit

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  • DescriptionThe Toolkit provides a five-stage approach for the preparation of evidence based plans, emphasising the analysis of data and option appraisal to conduct robust planning and the review of targets. The process aims to help LSPs produce better plans - that is, plans that are more likely to result in effective action that delivers improved outcomes.
  • Linkhttp://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/publications.asp?did=195

Neighbourhood Statistics - Best practice in statistical presentation

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Neighbourhood Statistics - Considerations for analysing patterns of work Deprivation and employment

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Neighbourhood Statistics - Geography policy

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Neighbourhood Statistics - Geography, an important factor in data analysis

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Neighbourhood Statistics - Guidance on using neighbourhood statistics data

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Neighbourhood Statistics - Guide to ethnicity sources

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Neighbourhood Statistics - Understanding the 2001 Census Area Classification for Output Areas

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Neighbourhood Statistics - Using maps to show geographical patterns in health data

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Performance management toolkit

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Practical guides for using neighbourhood-level data

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Solutions for Inclusion - Excluded groups

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Solutions for Inclusion - Exclusion problems

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Supporting Evidence for Local Delivery (SELD)

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  • DescriptionThe SELD (Supporting Evidence for Local Delivery) programme was introduced by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) in 2005 to test out approaches to promoting better use of data, research and evidence in neighbourhood renewal through technical assistance to local partnerships.
  • Linkhttp://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/neighbourhoodrenewal/seld/

Supporting Evidence for Local Delivery (SELD) - North West

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The Good Indicators Guide: Understanding how to use and choose indicators

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The Virtual Microdata Laboratory

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  • DescriptionThe Virtual Microdata Laboratory (VML) is a facility within the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which enables access to restricted microdata for research purposes. Researchers from government and academia use the VML to carry out research on ONS surveys and other confidential datasets.
  • Linkhttp://www.ons.gov.uk/about/who-we-are/our-services/vml/index.html

Toolkit to support the use of neighbourhood statistics

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Using data to improve services

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Using local data for effective commissioning

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Workforce profiling toolkit

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  • DescriptionWorkforce profiling can be used for the development of good employment targets for under-represented groups. It provides baseline data that enables the council to decide whether or not their workforce is reflective of the local community and put in place actions to address this. This toolkit helps develop workforce profiling.
  • Linkhttp://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=7216646