The purpose of this survey, led by Essex Youth Service and Essex Public Health, was to gather the views of young people on a range of topics relating to relationships and sexual health, understanding what further information and support they would like and their preferred ways in which to access it. Following on from our first Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)...
The Oral Health Needs Assessment (OHNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of this report are to: · To describe the oral health of the local population · To support the targeting of resources towards improving the oral health · To identify new or alternative ways in which...
The ONS Health Index for England is a new measure of the health of the nation. It uses a broad definition of health, including: health outcomes, health-related behaviours and personal circumstances, wider drivers of health that relate to the places where people live. The Health Index provides a single value for health that can show how health changes over time. It...
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...
Essex County Council has carried out research with residents to understand: Their experiences around the increasing cost of living The impact this is having on people's day-to-day lives as well as bigger life decisions being made or considered What things may help ease pressures ECC's Research & Citizen Insight Team carried out 20 in-depth interviews with residents from...
An interactive excel-based data tool for domestic abuse statistics. It allows users to explore data for their police force area in more detail and compare with other areas. Next release from the Office for National Statistics due in November 2023.
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...
New Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) were published as part of the 2021 Census data releases. More information on the methodology, and for GIS boundaries for all LSOAs in England and Wales can be accessed from the link below. https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/censusgeographies/census2021geographies#lower-layer-super-output-areas-lsoas The datasets provided below are LSOA shapefiles for the county of Essex, and for Greater Essex (including Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock unitary...
Report from the strategic partnership between Essex County Council and Barnardo’s Challenges facing the children’s care sector include the lack of suitable and well located places for young people who come into care. Essex County Council sought to work with a partner who had experience of the children’s care sector and that shared the same values and beliefs when it comes...
Essex County Council's Data and Analytics service have projected the likely impact of rising energy prices on our residents, in light of the rising energy price caps. The three main drviers of fuel poverty are: Low incomes Sub-standard energy inefficient homes High energy prices. The presentation below sets out the likely increases in levels of fuel poverty in Essex...
