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 In 2007, the North East Equality and Diversity Partnership (NEEDP) was formed, led by a multi-agency Board. NEEDP's Action Plan aims to help the region to embrace diversity, address inequality and discrimination, and enable all its people to contribute fully to economic, social, political and community life in the North East. The Action Plan and other information about NEEDP can be found on the NEEDP website. In order to ensure that NEEDP's work, and that of the wide variety of partners, is well-grounded in an understanding of the interests and needs of different communities, the Partnership Board commissioned Northumbria University to produce a statistical profile of equality and diversity. The research describes the different issues faced by different communities within the region. That report will be released via the NERIP website in the next few days. In September, a full launch event will be held for the report. The likely dates are either 29 or 30 September. We will let you know as soon as a date has been identified. Jon Carling, Head
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State of the Natural Environment Report 2008 Natural England has launched a significant evidence report - The State of the Natural Environment Report 2008. The 326-page report looks in detail at landscape & biodiversity data and data relating to people's enjoyment of the natural environment, for example access and greenspace provision. It also analyses pressures and risks for the natural environment and shows up evidence gaps. The report suggests that a radical new approach to conservation is needed if we are to cope with the challenges facing our natural environment. The findings from the report have led to Natural England publishing a manifesto for the natural environment that outlines what need to be done to set the nation on a greener path to the future. The full report can be downloaded at: www.naturalengland.org.uk/sone/ Natural England has made a commitment to publish regional State of the Natural Environment reports in 2009/10 and in the North East they intend that this will link into the evidence gathering for the Integrated Regional Strategy. For more information on evidence on the natural environment, please contact Nick Dales, Team Leader Evidence & Strategy on 0191 229 5518 or email Nick.dales@naturalengland.org.uk State of the countryside 2008 In similar vein, the State of the Countryside 2008 report has been published by the Commission for Rural Communities. It provides a comprehensive description of social, economic and environmental conditions and changes across rural England, highlighting the main challenges and future trends for government and other organisations. The report is the tenth in the series so the opportunity is being taken to reflect on the changes taking place in rural England, look forward to what the future might hold for rural communities, and to reflect on what has remained important since the report was first published in 1999. For further details about the report, go to: www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk//projects/stateofthecountryside2008/overview Migrant Health NEPHO has just published a report:
"New arrivals in North East England: mapping migrant health and NHS
delivery". It is available from the
website
http://www.nepho.org.uk/index.php?c=2922 or in hard copy from NEPHO. The report covers asylum
seekers and refugees, economic migrants from The recommendations in the report will be taken
forward by a new Migrant Health Group which has been formed as part
of the regional Migrant Partnership http://www.nesmp.org.uk/ . This group will also have
links into the Department of Health migrant health
team. There is also a new report from the Faculty of Public
Health on the health needs of asylum seekers: http://www.fphm.org.uk/resources/AtoZ/bs_aslym_seeker_health.pdf. For more information contact David Chappel (david.chappel@nepho.org.uk) or Elaine Rodger (elaine@anick.co.uk) Launch of Health Profiles
2008 Health Profiles 2008 were launched on the
24th June. This is the third year that
Health Profiles have been produced for all local authorities
(excluding City of The Profiles use key health indicators to capture a
picture of the nation's health down to local level, providing areas
across Health Profiles 2008 are available from: www.healthprofiles.info For further information regarding Health Profiles please
contact either Gillian Bryant or Household survey on entrepreneurship DBERR's The Household Survey on Entrepeneurship is a useful evidence source, albeit at national level only, about the differential, needs, motivations and experiences of entrepreneurs across different ethnic groups. The report suggests that this is a response to limited opportunities elsewhere in the labour market as much as a specific desire to set up one’s own business.
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Redefining Progress on Sustainability in the North East The event, held on 16 July and jointly sponsored by NERIP, Sustaine and One NorthEast, attracted an audience of over 150 people. Slides from the conference, and a note of the key findings from workshops, are now available here. Learning and Skills Network Conference NIACE - the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - is holding its Learning and Skills Network Conference in London on 4 December. More details are available here. Census Microdata Conference A three day conference at the University of Manchester, between 1 and 3 September, will provide an opportunity to hear about and discuss research undertaken with census microdata internationally. More information is avaiable here. |
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National
Library for Public Health The National Library for Public
Health has recently been launched as part of the National Library
for Health Specialist Libraries. There are currently nine subject
areas that are populated with key resources and evidence:
Alcohol Children and Young
People Dental
Health Health
Inequalities Mental
Health Obesity Physical
Activity Sexual
Health Tobacco For further information visit the library at www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth.
Work starts on ambitious
health plans Work is now underway
on ambitious plans to transform the traditionally poor health of the
North East. The area’s first ever health and well-being strategy
aims to make people living here the healthiest in the country within
a generation. Better Health,
Fairer Health is being led by regional director of public health
Dr Stephen Singleton. Evidence-based change, and efforts to establish an evidence base where none exists, are crucial to delivering the best health. In December last year, the five universities in the region – supported by the NHS, Association of North East Councils, Regional Development Agency and others – secured £5 million of national funding to establish a Public Health Centre of Research Excellence,and the Centre formally opened on 1 June. Its research focuses on the development and evaluation of public health interventions, and the translation of such research into effective policy/practice. More details are at www.ncl.ac.uk/ihs/ctrph/ This month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have publiished the final report from the research leading to the recent definition of the new Travel-to-Work Areas (TTWAs). The report describes how the commuting data from the 2001 Population Census enabled new levels of precision, allied with a radically revised method by the research team at Newcastle University's Centre for Urban & Regional Development Studies (CURDS). The report uses new forms of visualisation to show how the matrix of over a billion cells was analysed to find clusters of commuting behaviour which are the basis for the TTWA boundary definitions. At the end of the report there are maps and key statistics on each TTWA individually. "Travel-to-Work Areas: the 2007 review" by Mike Coombes (CURDS) & Steve Bond (ONS) can be found from a link at the foot of the main TTWA page on the ONS web-site www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/ttwa.asp . Travel to work data from the 2001 Census which was previously only available on DVD and required specialist software to use, can now be viewed and downloaded free of charge from the Nomis website. The data is provided in tables that show daily flows of workers from residence to place of work for all local authorities and wards in Great Britain, and parliamentary constituencies and wards in Northern Ireland. They also include breakdowns of the characteristics of the people in the flows. This travel to work data supplements similar data already made available for local authorities in January 2008. More information is available at http://www.nomisweb.co.uk CommuterView Users of travel data will also be interested to know that the ONS Data Visualisation Centre and the ONS Neighbourhood Statistics Service have recently launched CommuterView, an innovative product available on DVD. CommuterView takes Census data and enables users to create interactive maps showing flows of commuters within Super Output Areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Data Zones or Intermediate Zones in Scotland. Copies of the DVD are available by emailing better.info@ons.gov.uk . |
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New on the website this time is further analysis around the 2007 Indices of Deprivation, and some useful maps prepared by John Mooney of the NERIP team for Culture North East, showing the locations of various cultural attractions in the region. |
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