Essex County Council commissioned a research project during the summer of 2021 to explore the needs, motivations, and barriers to successful employment for people with learning disabilities and autism in Essex. This report presents findings from this research.
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...
Following the announcement of the COVID-19 lockdown on 23rd March, the University of Essex and Jump, working with the Essex Local Delivery Pilot (LDP) and ECC’s Research and Insight team, launched the State of Life survey. The State of Life survey is web-based and distributed via social media channels. It is designed to gather key insights on wellbeing across Essex. This report...
The Essex Domestic Abuse Commissioning Strategy 2021-24 (PDF, 895.90kB) sets out 5 key objectives that will aim to improve victims' outcomes across the county.
The above dashboard provides information about the extent of inequality at local authority level in England in the following domains: Income Rate of employment deprivation Rate of those not entering higher education Health (average years of potential life lost) Gini coefficients are a single number which describe how equally spread a resource (e.g income) is spread among...
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,...
Childhood Local Data on Risks and Needs (CHLDRN) provides the most complete picture of the numbers of children at risk in England, at both a national and local level. It makes available over 100 indicators across different age ranges and types of risk, and allows you to explore how these vary across England. Please note that this is an externally maintained...
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.
Report on the evaluation of the Trailblazers Homelessness Prevention Pilot