The Supported and Specialist Housing and Accommodation Need Assessment (2025) (SSHANA) provides estimates of future need for supported and specialist housing and accommodation for the administrative area of Essex County Council. It does not include the unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock. The SSHANA covers adult and children population groups who draw on Social Care support funded by Essex County Council...
This is an annual summary report for applications to the Essential Living Fund (ELF) for the financial year 2024/25. Essex County Council (ECC) launched the Essential Living Fund in 2013, with the aim of supporting individuals and families who had become vulnerable due to temporary crisis. It is available to individuals and families who are in crisis and have exhausted all other...
What is the Essex Renewal Project The Essex Renewal Project brought together an independent panel of expert commissioners to examine the long-term -impacts of COVID-19, and to make recommendations on the steps required to improve outcomes and exploit future opportunities. The project was sponsored by the University of Essex and Essex County Council on behalf of Essex Partners. The ERP recognised the importance...
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 these reports 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...
Essex ActivAte is the name for the Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) programme across Essex, run by Active Essex, Essex County Council and Thurrock Council, on behalf of the Department for Education. This programme aims to support the physical and mental wellbeing of primary and secondary school children, through engagement in a wide variety of enrichment and physical activities, and provision...
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...
Report from the strategic partnership between Essex County Council and Barnardo’s Challenges facing the children’s care sector include the lack of suitable and well located places for young people who come into care. Essex County Council sought to work with a partner who had experience of the children’s care sector and that shared the same values and beliefs when it comes...
A report setting out the challenges faced around health inequalities prior to the coronavirus pandemic and explores considerations of how COVID-19 may impact on them.
Report on the evaluation of the Trailblazers Homelessness Prevention Pilot
A conference was held for the 3 health and care systems linked to Essex to explore issues around Population Health & Wellbeing. The presentations covered topics cutting across health inequalities, deprivation, mental health, social isolation / loneliness and physical activity.
