The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation in England. It is part of the Indices of Deprivation (IoD), which look at different aspects of disadvantage. IMD uses a well-established method to define deprivation broadly, covering many areas of life such as income, employment, health, education, housing, and living environment. The IMD 2025 initial report highlights...
Greater Essex Trends has been developed to describe and communicate some of the key challenges and drivers of change that are shaping the lives of people across our diverse communities. It describes some of the strengths of Greater Essex and the opportunities we will have to grow, learn, and prosper in the years ahead. By bringing these different threads together,...
Safer Essex is the statutory county-wide Strategy Group for community safety, bringing together partners from across Essex, Southend, and Thurrock to coordinate the partnership response to community safety issues. Each District/City/Borough/Unitary council area in Essex also has its own Community Safety Partnership. Every year, Community Safety Partnerships are required to carry out an assessment of crime and anti-social behaviour in the...
Childhood in Essex The world children and young people are growing up in today has substantially changed from the childhood of previous generations. As such, it’s important for decision makers to put themselves in the shoes of current children and young people, to understand the new opportunities and challenges that they face - as the decisions made now will shape their...
A Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a comprehensive assessment of the current and future pharmaceutical needs of the local population. Health and Wellbeing Boards have a legal duty to produce and publish a PNA for their area. This set of documents includes the assessment and 7 appendices. Supplementary statements will also be published here with updates on provision of services. It sets...
Introduction On behalf of all 15 local authorities across Greater Essex, Essex County Council commissioned The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to conduct research with Greater Essex residents to support the evidence gathering process used to inform the business cases for LGR in Greater Essex. The research was exploratory and gathered an in-depth understanding of the views of a representative cross-section...
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest threats the world has ever faced, and it kills 8 million people a year worldwide. In 2019, a national ambition was set for England to become smokefree by 2030. Essex has also matched this ambition by signing the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control on October 2023. To support Essex going smoke free,...
A Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a comprehensive assessment of the current and future pharmaceutical needs of the local population. Health and Wellbeing Boards have a legal duty to produce and publish a PNA for their area. This set of documents includes the assessment, 8 appendices and 11 supplementary statements from April 2023 and a further 7 from December 2023 with...
Armed conflict and the deterioration of humanitarian conditions have resulted in a sharp increase in the number of people fleeing their home countries in recent years. As a result, over the last few years, the number of people who are refugees or seeking refugee status in the United Kingdom (UK) has increased significantly. People who are refugees or seeking asylum...
The Local Area Health Scorecard shows the latest summary snapshot of health in an area. The scorecard can be used to quickly understand the health of your area which, combined with your local knowledge, will help to tailor the support your school needs from the Healthy Schools Programme. Each scorecard has a summary table showing the latest data at district &...
