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Calderdale Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2025

18th December 2025 by Simon Greaves

The Index of multiple deprivation (IMD) combines information from the English Indices of deprivation (IoD). It is the Government’s official measure of relative deprivation for LSOAs (Lower layer super output areas). LSOAs are small geographical areas of approximately 1,600 people. There are 129...

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Half Year (Q2) Performance

23rd January 2025 by Simon Greaves

Our 2024/25 Half Year (Q2) Performance Report has four main areas of focus where a detailed exception report is provided: Section 42 safeguarding enquiries where risks were identified and reduced or removed Adult social care workforce turnover Primary schools rated good or outstanding Absence in...

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Annual Performance Report

31st July 2024 by Simon Greaves

Our 2023/24 Corporate Performance Report has the following main areas of focus: Population aged 65 years and over in receipt of long term adult health and social care support Employment Assessments completed within 28 days Section 42 safeguarding enquiries where risks were identified and reduced or...

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Schools Data

25th April 2024 by Simon Greaves

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)...

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Strengthening our use of data to tackle poverty and the cost-of-living crisis

24th November 2023 by Cath Bentley

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...

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Annual Performance Report

14th July 2023 by Simon Greaves

Our 2022/23 Corporate Performance Report has the following main areas of focus: Children subject to a Child protection plan and Children looked after Percentage of safeguarding referrals where the investigation is completed within 12 weeks of the alert being made Children looked after with an up to...

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Census 2021 - latest updates

10th February 2023 by Cath Bentley

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has completed the first of three phases of publishing information about Census 2021. You can now find information about Calderdale’s communities and wards from Census 2021 in our ward demographic profiles and dedicated Census 2021 pages. Highlights from phase...

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Indices of Deprivation Dashboard and Anti-Poverty Dashboard

24th August 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...

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Performance Report and Dashboard

19th July 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...

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Half-Year (Q2) Performance

18th January 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...

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Performance Dashboard

18th September 2020 by Sophie Smith

Our interactive performance dashboard and quarterly performance reports measure Calderdale’s progress towards being the ‘best borough in the North’ and achieving the aspirations of the Vision2024 for Calderdale. You can filter the dashboard by corporate priority, vision theme, indicator or service....

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School Census Data

15th June 2020 by Sophie Smith

Did you know that Calderdale has 101 schools, with over 36000 pupils? Analysis of our pupil data is available within a range of school datasets, which have recently been updated with data for the January 2020 school census. Topics include: Number of pupils on Roll Ethnicity Pupils eligible for Free...

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Calderdale Anti-Poverty Dashboards

8th April 2020 by Cath Bentley

Calderdale Council and its partners in the Calderdale Anti-poverty steering group are working together to help tackle poverty in the borough. The work of the partnership is reported through the Calderdale Anti-Poverty Action Plan. which has three areas of focus: Prevention: Identifying necessary...

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Partnership projects with the University of Huddersfield

6th December 2019 by Simon Greaves

Calderdale Council and the University of Huddersfield have completed a successful second year of innovative data projects. The collaboration involved MBA and MSc students taking on a range of research projects using open data on Calderdale Dataworks, data from the Council’s Performance and Business...

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Calderdale Indices of Deprivation (IoD) dashboard

17th October 2019 by Cath Bentley

We have developed a suite of dashboards, using the Qlik Sense data visualisation software, to show the IoD 2019 data – see Indices of Deprivation. IoD are a set of datasets including the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) published by Government, and was last published in September 2019. The data...

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Performance Dashboard and Vision 2024

26th June 2019 by Simon Greaves

Calderdale Council continues to make good progress towards being the ‘best borough in the North’ and achieving the aspirations of the Vision2024 for Calderdale. During the last 12 months, the Council has been measuring its progress in a number of priority areas, with an aspiration to be the ‘best...

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School census data

23rd January 2019 by David Brook

Did you know that Calderdale has 100 schools, serving over 35000 pupils? Analysis of our pupil population is available within the Schools datasets, which have recently been updated with data from the October 2018 school census. Topics include how many of these pupils have special educational needs,...

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Performance dashboard

9th August 2018 by Diane Wilkinson

Calderdale is well on track to becoming the best borough in the North. That’s according to the Council’s latest performance review report. Our reports measure the Council’s performance against 78 key indicators, showing how it is doing against its own targets and compared to other councils....

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Ofsted reporting template

8th December 2017 by Diane Wilkinson

Graham Mozley and Andrew Ramsay from Calderdale Business Intelligence team presented to the Data and Insight Authority Forum Summit, in December 2017, about our reporting template for social care front door self assessment for Ofsted inspection and sector led improvement. Calderdale was granted one...

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Neighbourhood ward profiles

26th June 2017 by Diane Wilkinson

Our Neighbourhood ward profiles are the first of a series of data visualisations to give a graphical element to data on the different wards in Calderdale. This highlights information that can affect the neighbourhood that we live in, such as population density, homelessness, income deprivation,...

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Calderdale Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

28th April 2016 by Diane Wilkinson

www.calderdale.gov.uk/jsna is Calderdale’s JSNA and is a valuable source of information for commissioners, local groups, organisations and other interested parties who want to know more about the population health needs of Calderdale. It gives an overall picture of the current and future health and...