Mental health is far more than just the absence of illness. It is a dynamic state of wellbeing where individuals can navigate everyday stresses, work productively, and contribute meaningfully to their communities. In Essex, the latest Adult Emotional and Mental Wellbeing needs assessment (2025) outlines why prioritizing our collective mental health is essential for a thriving society. Note: This folder contains two...
This dataset contains the minutes of recent meetings of the Data Ethics Committee. What is the purpose of the Data Ethics Committee? The Data Ethics Committee is made up of colleagues - both retired and currently working - who bring a wide range of experience in data and ethics from across different organisations. Volunteering their time, they come together to independently review projects...
The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation in England. It is part of the Indices of Deprivation (IoD), which look at different aspects of disadvantage. IMD uses a well-established method to define deprivation broadly, covering many areas of life such as income, employment, health, education, housing, and living environment. The IMD 2025 initial report highlights...
Greater Essex Trends has been developed to describe and communicate some of the key challenges and drivers of change that are shaping the lives of people across our diverse communities. It describes some of the strengths of Greater Essex and the opportunities we will have to grow, learn, and prosper in the years ahead. By bringing these different threads together,...
The Supported and Specialist Housing and Accommodation Need Assessment (2025) (SSHANA) provides estimates of future need for supported and specialist housing and accommodation for the administrative area of Essex County Council. It does not include the unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock. The SSHANA covers adult and children population groups who draw on Social Care support funded by Essex County Council...
Safer Essex is the statutory county-wide Strategy Group for community safety, bringing together partners from across Essex, Southend, and Thurrock to coordinate the partnership response to community safety issues. Each District/City/Borough/Unitary council area in Essex also has its own Community Safety Partnership. Every year, Community Safety Partnerships are required to carry out an assessment of crime and anti-social behaviour in the...
Childhood in Essex The world children and young people are growing up in today has substantially changed from the childhood of previous generations. As such, it’s important for decision makers to put themselves in the shoes of current children and young people, to understand the new opportunities and challenges that they face - as the decisions made now will shape their...
The Electoral Division Profiles Dashboard is an interactive tool which presents information on the 70 electoral divisions in Essex and the districts they are part of. This tool provides in one page an overview of each electoral division using a variety of indicators such as: · district population by age and gender · district employment rates · electoral division residents profiles · district portraits · results...
Introduction On behalf of all 15 local authorities across Greater Essex, Essex County Council commissioned The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to conduct research with Greater Essex residents to support the evidence gathering process used to inform the business cases for LGR in Greater Essex. The research was exploratory and gathered an in-depth understanding of the views of a representative cross-section...
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest threats the world has ever faced, and it kills 8 million people a year worldwide. In 2019, a national ambition was set for England to become smokefree by 2030. Essex has also matched this ambition by signing the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control on October 2023. To support Essex going smoke free,...