Dr' Dan Bloomer, Senior Policy Officer Cumbria County Council

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Cumbria Intelligence Observatorybackground,
outputs the future

• Dr. Dan Bloomer, Senior Policy Officer Cumbria
  County Council

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Aims of the day

• Outline developments of the Observatory
• Showcase outputs how they might be used
• 6 workshops
• Introduce you to some staff involved
• Propose some longer term goals
• Gather suggestions for the future

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Summary

• Why an Observatory?
• Cumbrias approach
• Initial outputs quick wins
• Longer term goals
• Relationship with CAA LAA ( NIS LSP)
• Important details for this morning

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Why an Observatory?

• Legislative change
• New performance framework
• Low, and dispersed, capacity
• Exponential increase in data availability
• Growing complexity (collation, analysis, usage)
• Need for consistency and joint working

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Cumbrias approach

• Informal practitioner group
• Nominal support from countywide LSP
• Formation of a senior-level Strategic Board
• Re-branding existing work
• Identification of new research outputs
• Joint intelligence team physical co-location
• County Council PCT initially ( hot desks)

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Initial Outputs

• Countywide data sharing protocol
• Interactive locality profiler
• Joint website
• Analysis of the National Indicator Set
• Life Cycle reports
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

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Longer term goals

• Getting people to use the outputs
• Support countys preparation for CAA
• Website development
• National crime mapping project
• Socio-economic profiling of user groups (rather
  than localities)
• Further expansion of multi-agency working

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Relationship with CAA LAA

• Observatory leads Story of Place development
• Agreed set of area profiles
• Presumption towards sharing of data
• Central (multi-agency) location for all
  information enquiries
• Co-ordination with LSP performance function
• Introducing perception alongside hard measures

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Delegate packs

• Workshop registration reminder
• Personalised socio-economic profile (postcode)
• Personalised area profile (ward)
• Workshop summaries
• Feedback form
• Your comments are crucial
• Can also record ideas on flip-charts
• Space for competition answers

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Competition

• NI 123 No. 4 week quitters in Q1 2008?
• NI 110 young people participating in a group
  activity led by an adult outside school lessons
  (e.g. sports, arts, youth group - in 2008)?
• NI 166 Median weekly earnings of employees in
  Copeland in 2007?
• (NI 123) (NI 110) (NI 166) ?????
• Answers on feedback sheet by end of 3rd workshop

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Whos Who?

• Area Profiler Dan Bloomer
• Crime Mapping Mark Clement
• Social Profiling Paula Kennerley
• Observatory website Ali Wilson
• National Indicator Set Owen David
• JSNA Cumbria PCT
• ..plus roving experts to answer queries

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Running Order

• 1000 Workshop 1
• 1030 Coffee
• 1050 Workshop 2
• 1120 Workshop 3
• 1200 Summary, competition and close
• 1215 Lunch