What is the Essex Renewal Project The Essex Renewal Project brought together an independent panel of expert commissioners to examine the long-term -impacts of COVID-19, and to make recommendations on the steps required to improve outcomes and exploit future opportunities. The project was sponsored by the University of Essex and Essex County Council on behalf of Essex Partners. The ERP recognised the importance...
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.
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...
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...
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.