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LDG Community Really Useful day

Challenge format

Title:

Profiling local areas: deprivation and its relationships with local needs and

priorities

What is it you want to achieve/solve?:

y Focus on a key, local strategic issue or priority (such as crime reduction, orimproving public health) and:

o Test and demonstrate how, through using open data standards, we canfind smarter ways of bringing together and visualising data from

multiple (national and local) sources

which can then.

o Enable councils and their delivery partners to reduce cost andcomplexity of acquiring and re-using data from multiple sources; and

o Provide powerful new insights into local issues and priorities, orimprove engagement with service customers and citizens.

y This challenge will involve blending and combining the Indices of Deprivationwith other public sector sources. The aim is to show how this combined

source can improve understanding of policy issues, and the impact local

services and priorities inside and outside of deprived localities.

Who is the audience?:Local Authority strategic planning, performance management, and lead officials for

individual service lines

Partners e.g. voluntary or charity organisations

Service customers and local residents

What data sets are available/needed?:1) Indices of Multiple deprivation API available here

http://opendatacommunities.org/. See also data.gov.uk blog post here

(http://data.gov.uk/blog/guest-blog-post-open-data-at-dclg-%E2%80%93-the-

english-indices-of-deprivation-and-more%E2%80%A6 )

2) Unemployment claimant and other job market statistics from NOMIS - API

available here - http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v013) Crime stats at street and neighbourhood level see Police API here

http://policeapi2.rkh.co.uk/api/docs/4) Local Authority evidence sources to be determined based on the issue or

priority selected for this challenge

What are the apparent barriers to realisation (if any)?:1) Lack of consistent, robust standards for blending and combining data from

multiple sources

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2) Cultural and technology challenges around incorporating new standards andpublishing techniques in existing IT systems

3) Convincing and persuading software vendors (e.g. commercial suppliers ofperformance management and benchmarking tools) to change their products

and incorporate new standards

Submitted by :Steve Peters / Bill Roberts

Mentor: *

Steve Peters / [ Paul Davidson? ]

* The Mentor is the person who will attend the really useful day and support the

development in all its stages. Mentors must commit to remove the barriers and look

for synergies between other developments. Mentors do not need to be in place when

the challenges is submitted they can be identified at a later stage