Essex Skills Plan
Keep up with current and future skills trends across Essex with our free, impartial research and leading local intelligence. With a focus on local priority sectors we call our research the 'Essex Skills Evidence Base'...urrent and future skills trends across Essex with our free, impartial research and leading local intelligence. With a focus on local priority sectors we call our research the 'Essex Skills Evidence Base'
This dashboard compares projections for the Essex economy prepared prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (in early 2020), with a second set prepared in early 2021. Both sets were prepared for Essex County Council by Cambridge Econometrics. A link to the assumptions underlying these projections can be found below.
The projections show, for key economic aggregates – output (measured as Gross Value Added or GVA), employment and productivity – th...This dashboard compares projections for the Essex economy prepared prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (in early 2020), with a second set prepared in early 2021. Both sets were prepared for Essex County Council by Cambridge E...
The Essex Recovery Foundation (ERF) has undertaken a comprehensive needs assessment to look at all aspects of the local drug and alcohol treatment system and how best to meet the needs of the individual. Focusing on what the experience is for individuals who access those services and to better understand the reasons why individuals do not wish to access them. Future plans and focus may flex or change dependent on the findings of the nee...The Essex Recovery Foundation (ERF) has undertaken a comprehensive needs assessment to look at all aspects of the local drug and alcohol treatment system and how best to meet the needs of the individual. Focusing on what...
...ysical activity among children and young people is a key priority for the county.
To inform the expansion of the Find Your Active campaign, research was needed to better understand children and young people’s attitudes and behaviours around physical activity, to inform the campaign and ensure it resonates with the audience.
The key research questions were:
What are the barriers to being active?
What motivates and influences young ......the county.
To inform the expansion of the Find Your Active campaign, research was needed to better understand children and young people’s attitudes and behaviours around physical activity, to inform the campaign and ens...
This research presents insights from research conducted with residents in rural Braintree during Oct-Dec 2022.
Little is known about hidden poverty and deprivation in rural areas. Therefore, the research seeks to explore the impact, the challenges this presents to residents within rural Braintree and th...This research presents insights from research conducted with residents in rural Braintree during Oct-Dec 2022.
Little is known about hidden poverty and de...
This Armed Forces Needs Assessment (AFNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of this report are, to:
• Provide key demographics of the armed forces community in Essex
• Examine the experiences of the armed forces community in relation to:
• Health and wellbeing
• Education and children's care
• H...This Armed Forces Needs Assessment (AFNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of this report are, to:
•...
The Oral Health Needs Assessment (OHNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of this report are to:
· To describe the oral health of the local population
· To support the targeting of resources towards improving the oral health
· To identify new or alternative ways in which gaps in services can be addressed
...The Oral Health Needs Assessment (OHNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of this report are to:
· ...
The Essex Youth Vaping report provides the insights from the research project conducted to understand more about children and young people’s (CYP’s) vaping in Essex.
With findings from CYP, parent’s/carer’s of CYP, and secondary schools, this includes Essex information on:
Scale of youth vaping, and the culture, experiences, and activities around it
Leve...The Essex Youth Vaping report provides the insights from the research project conducted to understand more about children and young people’s (CYP’s) vaping in Essex.
With findings from CYP, parent’s/carer’s of C...
Essex County Council has carried out research with residents to understand:
Their experiences around the increasing cost of living
The impact this is having on people's day-to-day lives as well as bigger life decisions being made or considered
What things may help ease pressures
ECC's Research & Citizen Insight Team carried out...Essex County Council has carried out research with residents to understand:
Their experiences around the increasing cost of living
The impact this is having on people's day-to-day li...
This report provides the findings of research conducted aiming to investigate covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Essex (vaccination and booster hesitancy).
Through a mixed methods approach, the reasons why residents delay or refuse the vaccination or booster dose was investigated, with a focus on understanding the barriers and facilitators,...This report provides the findings of research conducted aiming to investigate covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Essex (vaccination and booster hesitancy).
Through a mixed methods approach, th...