These supporting documents accompany the Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2026–29), which sets out a shared ambition to improve health outcomes, reduce inequalities, and create the conditions for people to live well at every stage of life. They draw on updated evidence from the 2025 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and reflect the priorities residents and partners highlighted through the statutory consultation...
The Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With just over 6,500 residents responding to the 2023 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within...
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 the ideas they have on what would enable them to take opportunities and secure greater financial...
The Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With almost 6,000 residents responding to the 2022 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within the...
In May 2022, Essex County Council published a Sector Development Strategy that seeks to support the growth of businesses within five growth sectors across the county. These growth sectors are: Advanced Manufacturing Construction Digitech Energy Medtech (Life Sciences) To support the realisation of this strategy, the Analytics and Data Science team have compiled the following evidence...
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...
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...
