Aims of the Webinar Series
The aims of the webinars in this series are to provide an opportunity for:
- people across the UK involved in producing statistics relating to COVID-19, and other forms of insight, to share their experiences and exchange ideas,
- people using the statistics to pose questions and make comments,
- members of the audience to contribute insights to the analysis and interpretation based on work they are doing.
Rationale for this webinar
To date, the webinars in this series have been somewhat dominated by topics and speakers from national statistical agencies, such as ONS, PHE/UKHSA and the various devolved administrations. However, it is recognised that there is also a huge amount of innovative work going on in local areas. Local and national work can influence each other and exploring this within the open webinar and discussion format is one way of facilitating this. The focus of this webinar is therefore on local issues and work at local level – and also on how work at local and national level can complement and enhance each other.
There are different ways in which work at local and national level can complement each other for maximum impact. This includes multi-agency approaches, involving local, regional and national collaborations, as well as ensuring that national initiatives include an element of localism. However, initiatives may also start from a local concept (idea, challenge, way of making things better). Insights from such initiatives can allow Local Leaders to come together to understand better the needs of their communities and apply their collective resources and capabilities to deliver real, sustainable change to improve the health and wellbeing of their citizens. Such initiatives can then be replicated and scaled up through national infrastructures. In this way, live learning at local level can influence the development of national data/insights/products/policy.
Dr Mark A Green Senior Lecturer in Health Geography, University of Liverpool
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Local Data Spaces": supporting local authorities' response to coronavirus (COVID-19) by upskilling staff and helping them to access and use data from the ONS's Secure Research Service, informing urgent policy decisions. Mark and the team at Liverpool won the ONS Research Excellence Award for this project.
Neil Bendel (Population Health Team, Manchester City Council), with contributions from
Kasia Noone (Population Health Team, Manchester City Council),
Matt Singleton and
Loren Dean-Austin (Manchester Metropolitan University)
“Route to recovery for academic institutions – The role of data and partnership working”
This presentation will report on work carried out in collaboration with colleagues from Universities and Higher Education institutions in Manchester
Corri Black – NHS Grampian
“Working local, sharing national: Lessons from COVID”
Including the work of SCODAS (Scottish COVID Data Analyst Support group) as a community of practice across Scotland around COVID.
Alison Smith-Palmer – NHS Lanarkshire
“Utilising COVID surveillance data to inform local public health action”
Lucie Smith: Buckinghamshire/
"The impact of Covid-19: the voices of less heard groups influencing public health"
Hira Naveed (RSS Official Statistics Section Vice Chair)