The Wuthering Bytes 2024 Festival Day, featuring fascinating technology insights, inspiring stories and more, takes place at the Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge on Friday 23rd August 2024. There will be speakers on a range of subjects including: The Mythical Mainframe: The unbelievable truth about the tech platform that keeps the global economy moving; History of wearable technology; Human Creativity in...

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 removed Rate of children looked after (CLA) per 10,000 children aged 0 to 17 years old The year 2024 marks...

Is Calderdale a great place to live? 72% of residents think so. For the last six years we have asked Calderdale residents for their perception of what it is like to live in the borough. Is it a great place to live in? Is it an attractive place to visit? How well do people from different backgrounds get on? The results from...

Tourism was hit hard during the pandemic (2020 to 2021) across the country. Attractions had to close several times and people were discouraged from travelling any distance. The tourism figures for 2022 were released earlier this year and show tourism is growing again. This is despite the ongoing cost of living crisis. Calderdale Council receive a report called ‘The economic impact of...

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...