Census 2021 – Latest Updates November 14th, 2022 by Simon Greaves The Office for National Statistics has started to publish more detailed information about Census 2021, including a topic summary called Demography and migration: Census 2021 in England and Wales and a new Census Maps visualisation tool published on 2 November 2022. You can find links to these and other published Census data on the Calderdale…
Defibrillator for Crow Wood Park October 6th, 2022 by Simon Greaves The Performance and Business Intelligence Team at Calderdale Council have raised £1000 to fund a Community Public Access Defibrillator (CPAD) at Crow Wood Park as part of the Yorkshire Ambulance Charity 999 scheme. The money was handed over to the Friends of Crow Wood Park at their monthly coffee morning in September. The defibrillator has…
Cycle Lane Counter Dashboard September 7th, 2022 by Sophie Smith Our newest dashboard published on Data Works is the Cycle Lane Counter Dashboard created using Power BI, this is a visual representation of the Cycle Lane Counter data that we already have published on Data Works. This dashboard includes a number of visualisations, including the volume of cyclists by month and the volume of cyclists…
Indices of Deprivation Dashboard and Anti-Poverty Dashboard August 24th, 2022 by Sophie Smith Our latest two refreshed dashboards to go live on DataWorks are Indices of Deprivation and Anti-Poverty, these have both been developed in Power BI. The IoD dashboard is based on a set of datasets including the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) published by Government and was last published in September 2019. There are five IoD…
Census 2021: first results August 15th, 2022 by Diane Wilkinson The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the initial results from Census 2021 28 June 2022. Five data sets were released. These cover population and household results at local authority level, and are rounded to the nearest 100. The data sets are: population by sex; population by five year age group; population by five year…
Performance Report and Dashboard July 19th, 2022 by Simon Greaves Our 2021/22 Corporate Performance Report has four main areas of focus: • Secondary School Attendance• Placement Stability and Wellbeing of Children Looked After• Safeguarding Referrals• Smoking at Delivery Our annual performance report also shows how the Council is performing against our 100 key performance indicators and when compared to other councils. We treat a selection…
Planning electric vehicle bulk charging locations with Open Data – Open Innovations May 10th, 2022 by Sophie Smith Open Innovations recently completed a short project for Connected Places Catapult which considered ways of supporting Integrated Planning for Net Zero. The deliverables for the project were two prototypes of tools which promote the idea of cross-sector and integrated planning. The concept behind both prototypes is to bring together local authorities, energy companies, transport planners…
Open Data in Calderdale: Interview with Open Innovations April 29th, 2022 by Simon Greaves Interview with Simon Greaves, Lead Business Intelligence Officer at Calderdale Council and Paul Connell, Founder of Open Innovations and Grace Durkan, Events and Communications Co-ordinator at Open Innovations. Calderdale is one of Open Innovations founding sponsors and this interview talks about the benefits of this collaboration and showcases our innovative approach to Open Data. Paul: Why…
Census 2021 April 14th, 2022 by Diane Wilkinson Census 2021 was taken 21 March 2021. It is run every ten years by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It gives us the most accurate estimate of all people and households in England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate censuses). The information you give in the census is used to help decide…
Diversity Dashboard February 4th, 2022 by Simon Greaves We have developed our published Workforce Profile data for Calderdale so this feeds the Diversity Dashboard developed by Open Innovations and which is supported by our ongoing work with them and sponsors through the Open Data Collaboration Group. Over the past year or so they’ve been working with Yorkshire Water to create a Diversity Dashboard for…
Half-Year (Q2) Performance January 18th, 2022 by Simon Greaves Our Half-Year (Q2) 2020/21 Performance Report includes exception reports on the following: employment and skills percentage of children looked after for two more years in stable placements permanent care home admissions (ages 18-64/65 and over) The report also has updates on the latest data releases for other key performance indicators and details of how Calderdale is performing…
Vision 2024 Survey January 7th, 2022 by Sophie Smith In Calderdale, and around the world, we’ve had a time like no other. As we look to rebuild in 2022, your views of our place really matter. They change where we’re going and how we get there. If you’re 16 or older and live here, we invite you to share your views of the borough…