Reports

A Proposal for an Oxfordshire VCS Alliance has been published. As you may know and will read in the report, this is the culmination of a lot of work, research and contributions from many people and if that includes you, possibly responding to the consultation recently conducted, then thank you very much for that valuable … Continue reading VCS Alliance – Proposal for an Oxfordshire VCS Alliance

The Fawcett Society, Women's Budget Group, Queen Mary University of London and the London School of Economics have joined together to produce a briefing which looks at how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting parents. It sets out the experiences of parents at the height of lockdown. It comprises analysis of data from a survey of … Continue reading The Fawcett Society – Briefing Paper on how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting parents

Oxfordshire’s goal has been for all services working with young children and their families to play an important role in supporting school readiness. The school readiness strategy reflects key principles that school readiness is achieved through families, ready communities, ready services and ready children. Through the School Readiness consultation 4 main priorities have been identified … Continue reading Oxfordshire County Council – Oxfordshire School Readiness Strategy 2020

A new JSNA Bitesize is now available on Oxfordshire Insight showing the change in unemployment data for Oxfordshire and districts between March 2020 and April 2020. Between March 2020 and April 2020, the number of claimants of unemployment benefits in Oxfordshire increased from 6,655 to 12,240, an increase of 5,600 or 84%.  This was above … Continue reading JSNA: Change in unemployment data between March and April 2020

Knowing how to do Co-production can be daunting. That’s why we’ve created the Working Together Handbook – a helpful and user-friendly collection of our best practice guidance to getting it right. Co-production is not a new or difficult concept. In simple terms, it means working together to change or improve something, or problem-solving together. But … Continue reading Launch of Co-production Oxfordshire’s ‘ Working Together Handbook’

A new JSNA Bitesize (one page) publication on smoking is now available on Oxfordshire Insight (and attached) 20190930_Bitesize_Smoking The bitesize shows the most recent data for Oxfordshire from Public Health England, ONS and NHS Digital and findings include: In 2018 an estimated 10.1% of adults in Oxfordshire were smokers, significantly lower than the England average … Continue reading JSNA – Data on smoking in Oxfordshire

Many thanks to all those charities and voluntary groups that completed our infrastructure survey. We had a good response with 74 groups/organisations completing the survey which has given us valuable information about the needs and priorities for the sector. Oxfordshire County Council is currently reviewing the Infra-structure contract and one of the main reasons for … Continue reading OCVA Infra-structure survey 2019 – report on findings

Healthwatch Oxfordshire is to focus on people’s experiences of using mental health services during the year ahead, the organisation’s annual report reveals today (Wednesday June 26). Writing in the report, the independent health watchdog’s Executive Director, Rosalind Pearce, says: “In 2019/20, mental health is the theme to our listening activities. We have heard so much … Continue reading Healthwatch Oxfordshire Annual Report now available

2019 update of the Oxfordshire Strategic Intelligence Assessment The Strategic Intelligence Assessment is developed on behalf of the Safer Oxfordshire Partnership and shows crime trends and community safety data from national and local datasets. There is a summary and a full report. Crime rates remain relatively low in rural Oxfordshire.  In Cherwell and Oxford the … Continue reading JSNA – Update on crime trends data and new report on ethnicity and language of primary school pupils

NEW JSNA Bitesize on Child Obesity Public Health has developed a new JSNA Bitesize (one page) publication on Child Obesity showing the most recent data for Oxfordshire from the National Child Measurement Programme. 201905_Bitesize_NCMP Levels of child obesity vary between Oxfordshire’s districts. In Cherwell 2017/18, obesity prevalence was significantly higher than the Oxfordshire average for … Continue reading JSNA Publication on Child Obesity in Oxfordshire