West Lothian Community Information Sharing Partnership - Home Page
The West Lothian Community Plan 'Shaping the Future' sets out a 10 year strategy which will bring a better quality of life for everyone living, working and doing business in West Lothian.
Shaping West Lothian's future, needs organisations to work together to plan and deliver services. The Information Sharing Partnership provides a mechanism for sharing consistent data and mapping between the services & agencies working across West Lothian in order to inform the development and monitoring of the Community & Locality Planning process. This website combines data and information supplied by partner agencies, with information sourced externally from Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics or from the Census (2001). The information can ve viewed as tables or as static & interactive maps.
Shaping the Future - The Current West Lothian Community Plan
WLINFO - User Guide (Nov 2007)
Locality Planning
Locality planning has introduced a new dimension to the community planning process by engaging with local communities to identify local priorities for action. This work started in early 2005, and initially focussed on the communities living in each of the nine non-denominational secondary school catchments. In future, work will be centred on the nine multi-member wards.
Community Planning Partners
- West Lothian Council
- The Community Health & Care Partnership
- NHS Lothian
- The Scottish Public Health Observatory
- Job Centre Plus
- The Pensions Service
- Lothian & Borders Police
- Lothian & Borders Fire & Rescue Service
- West Lothian College
- Scottish Enterprise - Edinburgh & Lothian
- Communities Scotland
- Scottish Water
- West Lothian Leisure
- Oatridge Agricultural College
- West Lothian Chamber of Commerce
- Scottish Water
- Association of Community Councils
West Lothian Youth Congress
The Scottish Public Health Observatory at ISD have also agreed to participate in the data sharing working group, to provide input on local health data.
Assessing Performance
It is intended that this site will present facts and figures about each settlement, and data on a range of measurable indicators which will help to inform the work of partner agencies, and indicate whether the initiatives which are being put into place e.g. as a result of the locality & community planning process are working effectively.
Equalities Data
The public sector duties on race, disability and gender require that equality considerations are now integrated into all the functions and policies of each partner agency. There is a requirement to assess the potential impact all policies to ensure that we do not inadvertently create a negative impact for equality groups. The 'equality strands' now include age, disability, gender, race, sexuality, religion and belief.
We will endevour to present data on equalities issues, but there is still very little data available (the most recent comprehensive data on religion & ethnicity is from the Census in 2001). We have used the census data from 2001 to create area profiles. It is hoped that more comprehensive data, will be gathered in the next census in 2011.
Useful Sources & Links
The links page provides a range of general links to background papers/data sources. If you are aware of anything that could/should be added please let us know.
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Latest News
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July 1st 2008
Summary Worker Registration figures to March 2008 (for 'new migrants') have been added to the migration page. Further details are available on request. Key figures will all be incorporated into the site ASAP.
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June 26th 2008
The Scottish Government have published the Results from the 2007 Annual Population Survey (APS). The APS is a boosted annual version of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and is the official source of many labour market and lifelong learning indicators for Scotland and local authority areas in Scotland. Population Survey 2007. Key figures will all be incorporated into the site ASAP.
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June 26th 2008
The Scottish Government have published a range of Income and Poverty Statistics (click icon), including data at council level on: Child Poverty. All these figures will all be incorporated into the site ASAP.
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June 24th 2008
The Scottish Public Health Observatory at ISD have just released new Health Profiles for each Health & Care Paretnership (CHP). The West Lothian Profile & the technical notes are on the Health Page.
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May 30th 2008
May SNS data mostly loaded to the Databank (although there are still some data loading issues to resolve). The remainder will be loaded ASAP.
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May 22nd 2008
The Scottish Government have just released Health & Care stats for each authority & these can be downloaded or viewed as an an Atlas Report. on the Social Care page.
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May 20th 2008
The database is currently being updated to include the data released by SNS in May. Many of the tables therefore now include new data.
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May 9th 2008
A range of additional school data added from 2007.
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May 7th 2008
At a meeting on May 7th it was suggested that some of the datazone names & many of 'settlement' lookups should be revised to correct errors & address issues such as proposed new-build in West Lothian. This is an issue that will be consulted on along with topics such as what essential 'core data' is required on the site, and what can be archived/deleted.
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April 26th 2008
More West Lothian Deprivation Maps Added (Most deprived zones based on Scottish Ranking).
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April 16th 2008
Due to a computer crash, the site has not been updated since March, but work will now resume ASAP. Work is also being undertaken to rebuild the site to incorporate reporting on the new Single Outcome Agreement.
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March 1st 2008
A comprehensive compendium of local statistics on alcohol and drug use added.
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Feb 18th 2008
A wide range of data e.g. on school exclusions have been updated.
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Feb 3rd 2008
Multi-Member Ward Crime Data Uploaded.
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Jan 29th 2008
Population projections page updated to include local authority population projections 2006-2031.
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Jan 28th 2008
New Primary/Secondary School Data Added
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Jan 8th 2008
Postcode Lookup Tool added on Area & Population Page.
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November 6th 2007
Population page updated to include small area (datazone) population estimates for 2006.
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November 2nd 2007
Test of customised search tool added (at foot of home page) tailored to search on Outcome related topics. Users can rank search results. Please feedback if you find the tool useful. Warning: Results don't open in a new window, so closing the search results will end the session. Click BACK to return here.
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October 30th 2007
School catchment maps updated and data from the 2007 school census inserted.
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October 12th 2007
The new website went 'live' on October 12th. It has been re-built to improve accessibility, appearance & performance & now complies with required standards.
All links to the new West Lothian site have been 'fixed' if possible (although not all old content has been replicated).
