Newham INFO
Data to Information
Stephen Croney
Corporate GIS and Information Manager
London Borough of Newham
stephen.croney@newham.gov.uk
02033731046
The Early Years
• The idea of a Local Information System was first
discussed in 2002.
•By end 2003, NIMS (Neighbourhood Information
Management System) was launched.
•The site was a collaboration between LBN and its
Local Strategic Partnership.
•The LSP supplied and requested for the data to
be on the website and the NIMS Team uploaded it
on the system
•By 2006 it was realised that other off-the-shelf
systems were becoming prominent.
•In 2007 Instant Atlas was acquired.
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Store of Demographic and
Statistical information about the
Borough
Holds data at various Geographies;
Borough, Community Forum, Ward,
LSOA.
Holds borough level information
for all London Boroughs
Holds Olympic Borough, London
and GB comparators.
What is Newham INFO?
The Need for Information
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Council Policy and Strategies need to be built on solid evidence.
Empower council staff and the public to source their own data rather than a
reliance on LBNs demography service.
Demographic information required to support;
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EQIAs
JSNA
LEA
Newham Resilience Agenda
Councils being forced to allocate reducing resources more effectively
Health and Social Care Bill
Public Health moving into Local Authorities (April 2013)
What data will be required by LA’s
How can we get this data?
How can we store it? Combine with what we already have?
Newham INFO to act the hub for this data
Managing the Data
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NIMS became very Data heavy
Too much time spend on updating datasets
No time left for development
Solution
• Brought in OCSI data packs to maintain the core datasets
• Focus on presenting information rather than just storing it.
• Understanding our audience and their data needs
• Able to spend time on developing internal sources
• PLASC
• Mayhew Population Study
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Taking advantage of the technical advances in IAS.
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More control of content – embedding pages directly into IAS
Future plans
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Linking to GIS/Mapping – through Newham INFO
– Exploiting our Corporate GIS technology
– Embeddable maps in Reports
– Enhanced layers and base mapping in Data Views
Direct feeds into IAS from ONS/OCSI
Stephen Croney
Corporate GIS and Information Manager
London Borough of Newham
stephen.croney@newham.gov.uk
02033731046