Essex County Council’s Research and Citizen Insight Team worked with Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) to develop our understanding of communities across Essex. The work – conducted between March and June 2021 - focused on examining the position of different communities across Essex on a national ‘community needs index’. This work allows us to compare communities across Essex, assess local communities...
Relationships and sex education survey - key findings report From July-September 2021 Essex County Council conducted a survey for young people aged 16-25, on the topic of relationships and sex education (RSE). Building on previous engagement with young people, we wanted to further understand how we can ensure young people in Essex are supported to have healthy relationships. Relationships and sex education (RSE)...
The Covid-19 impact assessment reports provide an overview of the impact landscape and shared challenges across Greater Essex organisations, as it stood in August 2021. The reports bring together insights or work conducted at an Essex level, national insight and reflections from learning events, discussions with various boards and round table events. There are 6 separate issue papers framed around...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the Essex County Council (ECC) Public Health and Strengthening Communities teams, in partnership with local Facebook Admins, set up the Essex Coronavirus Action Support (ECAS) approach. This initiative is a part of Essex County Council’s wider digital first approach to strengthening communities which has also been applied in other projects addressing mental health needs...
Volunteering habits have changed quickly due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, one of the largest single-issue volunteer recruitment drives was instigated nationally and locally to assist vulnerable people through the pandemic. The Volunteering Tactical Coordination Group (VTCG) requested an exploratory piece of work which would: •review the position of statutory services regarding the current use of volunteers; •inform thinking about the use of...
Essex County Council made a commitment to supporting working families who are ‘just about managing’ (JAM) financially - those not experiencing severe deprivation, but still earning below the level required for a decent standard of living. The council generally has little contact with working families unless they tip into crisis and need our services and support, and we had limited insight...
This piece of research explored families’ experiences of the current short break offer, and how equal current services are across Essex and by listening to families we were able to gain a deeper understanding of what was working well and what could be better. The insights gathered will help inform what our future service offer could look like and identify new ideas innovation to support families,...
Powerpoint pack of Essex level data linked to strategic priorities, created to provide base evidence pack for use in corporate business planning.
Population insight pack for Mid and South Essex area, includes population estimates by: Protected characteristics Socio-economic status Vulnerable and inclusion health groups Digital inclusion. The data was collated from publicly available sources and the data period covered is 2011 (Census) to 2020. All the data sources are referenced in the document. The data is presented at local authority...
In November 2020, the Research & Citizen Insight team in collaboration with the Corporate Strategy team and colleagues in Children and Families, we conducted a survey entitled ‘Childcare in Essex – parents’ views’. This was aimed at parents of children aged 0 – 19 (25 if SEND) living in Essex using any form of childcare (formal or informal), including those not...
