HEON-E Data Analysis ToolkitJulia Blackwell – Huntingdonshire District Council

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

• Designed and built during 2005

• Launched January 2006

• Over 40 local authorities have the toolkit

• Funding from DTI/GO East/ Sustainable Development Round Table and match by Powergen

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

Able to:

Identify areas of potentially vulnerable households

Identify areas of “able to pay households”

Assist in budgeting and allocation of grants

Example 1 – Able to Pay Households

• In Norwich – 55,000 households

• Criteria – less than 2% of the population claim income support and houses are owner occupied

• Identified 8980 households of which 6740 were owner occupied – 75%

Ranking Areas of need

• Careful selection of criteria• Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance

claimants• Pension credit claimants: guaranteed credit only• People aged 16-74 economically inactive; permanently

sick or disabled• All pensioner households• Households with one or more persons with limiting

long term illness

HEON-E Data Analysis ToolkitCriteria 1 2 3 4 5

Great Yarmouth 1 1 1 15 2

Norwich 2 5 3 43 7

Tendring 3 2 2 2 1

Waveney 4 4 4 4 3

Southend-on-Sea 5 8 10 25 9

King's Lynn and West Norfolk 6 7 5 3 5

Peterborough 7 11 9 44 13

Fenland 8 3 6 9 6

Luton 9 14 12 48 17

Basildon 10 12 11 36 12

Ipswich 11 9 8 27 11

North Norfolk 12 6 7 1 4

Huntingdonshire District Council

• Allowance & Pensioner H/holds Households 53650

• Att. Allow claimants 2685 ~ 5%

• Pensioner households 6344 11%

Analysis showed a relationship between Attendance Allowance Claimants and Pensioner households

Huntingdonshire District Council

• Identify the top 8 LSOAs

• Households 5928 11%

• Att Allow Claim 535 20%

• Pension H/holds 2040 18%

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

Identify the top OAs• Households 3408 6.5%• Att Allow Claim - - • Pension H/holds 1542 13.5%

An evaluation project would only need to direct mail 6.5% of all households to contact 13.5% of the target population

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

• Project for Age Concern - Ramsey

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

Households Pens.

Households

Percentage Rank

651 143 22.0 3

624 112 17.9 4

746 241 32.3 1

567 90 15.9 5

701 174 24.8 2

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

LSOA OA % Pensioners Rank

E01018156 12UEHC0003 42.1 2E01018158 12UEHC0004 35.1 4

12UEHC0017 33.1 5

12UEHC0019 50.1 1

12UEHC0022 39.1 3E01018160 12UEHC0018 31.7 6

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

NEA Sustainable World Award

Organised by NEA in partnership with the Defra and npower to provide grant assistance to local agencies demonstrating an innovative project

The aim of the award scheme is to highlight successful initiatives as examples of good practice to facilitate the implementation of Fuel Poverty in England: The Government’s Plan for Action

NEA Sustainable World Award

• HEON won the Regional Award of £2000

• And will be entered for the National Award – 7th June, Peterborough

HEON-E Data Analysis Toolkit

• The next steps• Software to list addresses from post codes• NEA National Award presentation 7th June• Ordered by West Midlands Region• More regions want it• Integration with Council GIS systems