Halifax Digital Festival is back next week from 21st -23rd May at The Crossley Gallery at Dean Clough Mills in Halifax! Join us during 3 days of events, seminars and workshops on digital technology, Gen Ai, skills development and the opportunities it will bring for education, businesses and charities in the Halifax area. Get ready for an unforgettable three-day extravaganza dedicated to...
We’ve published more Footfall data covering additional sites in Halifax town centre as well as new data for Elland and Brighouse. This builds on the data previously published from Halifax BID, which covered two sites in Halifax, and footfall and car park usage data provided by Woolshops Shopping Centre in Halifax. Data is shown by hour, day, week and rolling 12-months...
We publish a range of school and education datasets here on Calderdale DataWorks, which have recently been updated with data from the January 2024 school census. Datasets include: • Number of pupils on Roll• Ethnicity• Pupils eligible for Free School meals• Pupils with special educational needs (SEN)• Pupils with English as an additional language This data is collected termly in most cases...
Our latest Dashboard is a visual representation of the libraries data published on Calderdale Dataworks for the last three financial years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The dashboard includes various visualisations and a map to show the locations of the libraries and the numbers of visitors. Visualisations include: total visits by library, visits by adults and children, all library issues by...
As part of Calderdale Vision 2024 a Climate Emergency Action Plan has been put together to protect Calderdale’s Distinctive Environment. The Action Plan is made up of 4 main components including: 1. Transport: How we can travel more sustainably within the Borough. 2. Communities and People: How we can be more efficient in the community and our homes. 3. Resilience and carbon reduction: How...
Our 2023/24 Half Year (Q2) Performance Report has four main areas of focus: Referral and Assessment Timescales (Adults Social Care) Short Term Placement Stability (Children’s Social Care) Primary education outcomes Child protection plans Our half year performance report also shows how the Council is performing against our key performance indicators and when compared to other councils. We treat a selection of these as super key...
Open Innovations are holding their next hackathon which will be for all things net zero. They’re working with Northern Powergrid in their ambition to support our region to meet its decarbonisation pledge. To do this, they want to engage with other Distribution Network Operators (DNO; companies licensed to distribute electricity in the UK), utilities, sectors and industries, finding new innovative...
Poverty in Calderdale: selected statistics – the Calderdale Anti-Poverty dashboards – is a collection of dashboards about poverty statistics in Calderdale on the Calderdale Dataworks website. Ten new dashboards have been added about: housing affordability for buyers and renters; people eligible for carers allowance; people claiming universal credit who have completed work capability assessments; trends in numbers of households claiming...
We’ve recently published footfall reports showing data from Halifax BID (Business Improvement District) based on footfall recorded in Commercial Street and Corn Market in Halifax town centre. Data is shown by hour, day, week and rolling 12-months along with a comparison to previous years and is provided by Springboard. We hope to publish more footfall data from other town BIDs...
Leeds Digital Festival 2023 Our friends at Open Innovations will be 10 years old in November. To kick off their celebrations they are hosting a Showcase during Leeds Digital Festival on September 28th. This will take place in person at their innovation space in Munro House and will include talks, presentations and demos by some of their most recent partners. They get...