The cost-of-living crisis is likely to impact council-tax collection rates. This presentation visualises vulnerability to council-tax non-payment using a ‘Vulnerability Index’.
The health protection dashboard is an interactive tool providing intelligence and insight to allow our stakeholders to understand the need in their local area on issues pertaining to health protection. This tool contains relevant information on the domains of health protection: communicable disease control, emergency preparedness and environmental health. This dashboard is a work in progress and still subject to...
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, and what could be done to help address hesitancy.
Lived Experience of service users and those requiring support during the Covid-19 pandemic.
As we emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns in early 2021, the Data & Analytics Service at Essex County Council undertook some analysis to understand the likely financial impact on households in Essex at this time. This analysis looks at the comparisons in households financial standing between 2020 and 2021. This analysis seeks to answer the questions below, showing the...
Over the past 17 years, owner occupancy has become far less common amongst households younger than 65. All else equal, the high rate of occupancy for those in later life is very likely to deteriorate in the future. Households between the ages of 45-64 in low earning occupations are now far less likely to be owner occupants when compared to 10...
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 Welfare Service has volunteers signed up to help vulnerable residents during the Covid 19 pandemic. We wanted to get an understand of how the easing of lockdown restrictions might impact people’s ability to continue volunteering and identify where we have areas of high risk. Using segmentation and clustering techniques we can predict that over a quarter of our volunteers are highly...
