Useful links
General
Crime
Education and skills
Environment
Health
Housing
Labour market
Transport
General
Audit Commission: area profiles
Area profiles aim to produce a ‘synthesis of findings’ on
quality of life and local services comprising: surveys of local
residents and service users, funding and spending, views of the
partners within Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs), and the
judgements and assessments of inspectors of public services.
IDeA - Knowledge
IDeA Knowledge delivers in-depth improvement news and
examples of good practice from councils across England and Wales,
and provides access to the IDeA’s range of tools and services.
Local
Futures - Local knowledge
The Local Futures/LGC monthly Barometer analyses local area
performance on a range of key policy-related matters such as
Education, Health, Deprivation, and Employment Growth. Also
available are mapping and ranking tools for national and local
pictures of variance.
Department for Communities and Local Government:
research and statistics
This DCLG site offers links to largely UK and regional
statistics, surveys, reports and summaries on the topics of
Housing, Homelessness, Planning, Regeneration, Supporting People,
Sustainable Communities, Urban Policy; plus research programmes
under the headings of Building Regulations, Civil Resilience, Fire,
Local and Regional Government, Neighbourhood Renewal and Social
Exclusion; and Future Horizons reports.
DCLG: local government performance
Best value indicators in the form of maps, charts and stats
comparing local authorities against regional and national averages.
Office for National Statistics (ONS): neighbourhood
statistics
An offshoot of the Office for National Statistics homepage,
this site makes available census data and (increasingly) data from
other sources, with some cross-tabulations of the vast range of
variables for all UK geographies.
The Office
of National Statistics (ONS)
The Office of National Statistics offers links to national
and regional statistics, around areas such as economy, employment
and population, as well as key publications on the implications of
findings, and census news.
Crime
Metropolitan Police (MET): crime statistics
Monthly crime statistics reported by ward.
Home Office (HO): statistical bulletins
Quarterly crime updates give a national picture of crime
trends.
Education and skills
Department for Education & Skills (DFES): in
your area
Local area education and skills statistics, plus national
research findings and details of the DfES research programme.
Environment
London Air Quality Network (LAQN)
Maps and stats providing air quality readings across London
from the London Air Quality Network at Kings College London.
Health
London Health Observatory (LHO): basket of
indicators
A selection of data used for health inequality indicators
mainly at local authority geography.
Department of Health (DHO): publications and
statistics
The Department of Health’s national research, statistics,
survey and bulletins homepage.
Housing
Land Registry - Property Information
Alongside more general information, the Land Registry gives
property prices from national to postcode averages by house
type.
Department for Communities and Local
Government
This site offers links to research, policy and service
provision under Building regulations, Fire and resilience,
Homelessness, Housing, Neighbourhood renewal, Planning, Regions,
Social Exclusion, Sustainable communities and Urban policy.
Labour market
Department of
Work and Pensions (DWP): research and statistics
Local benefits and employment related data can be downloaded
from the DWP R&S homepage. Quarterly national summaries are
also available here.
Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI): statistics
The DTI offer guidance on attaining macro-economic, industry,
energy, trade, employment relations and small firms statistics, and
on the construction industry, and the production and
consumption of energy in the United Kingdom and information on
energy trade and prices.
NOMIS: official
labour market statistics
Nomis hosts local labour market data from the Annual Business
Inquiry, the Labour Force Survey/ Annual Population Study, the
Annual Survey of Hours & Earnings, the 2001 Census, JSA
Claimant counts, DWP benefits, Employee job estimates/ jobs
density, jobcentre plus vacancies, and VAT registrations and
stocks; and provides local labour market profile
overviews.
Transport
Department for Transport (DfT): statistics
The DfT provide regional transport data alongside national
statistics and trend analysis.