The COVID-19 Economic Impacts Report is an interactive self-serve tool that highlights the economic impacts across Essex as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on government initiatives such as the CJRS (Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme) and the SEISS (Self Employment Income Support Scheme). The EOTHO (Eat Out to Help Out) scheme is also included. This report also draws from...
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...
With the gradual ease out of lockdown and the furlough scheme ending in September 2021, ECC needs to proactively plan for the increased and changing demand on employment services. These circumstances will potentially create a new cohort of individuals who have not needed to previously engage with these services. A broader programme of work is underway to understand financial resilience...
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...
The dashboard shows: total lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and each of the four constituent countries total deaths in hospital of patients who tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK and each of the four constituent countries cases confirmed by NHS/PHE labs for each region and upper tier local authority (UTLA) in England daily...
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.
This research aimed to track resident attitudes and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic to: 1.Explore how different types of residents and households were impacted. 2.Understand what day to day life was like for different types of households. 3.Record how experiences and attitudes changed over the lockdown period and beyond. The insight was obtained through a series of video/telephone interviews (mostly via Teams) with...