The Evidencing Rural Need Project continues to expand its range of report types with more planned in the near future. Currently there are six types of reports available including those examining rural deprivation, profiles of places and parishes, the rural economy and access to services.
The reports are the property of the respective Rural Community Action Network (RCAN) member. However if you are an external organisation or member of the public interested in reports for your area then please contact, the relevant RCAN member to discuss whether you can have access to them.
An example of each report type is shown below:
1. Rural share of deprivation
Strategic influencing tool – to highlight the volume of rural deprivation locally.
Developed at local authority geographies (district, unitary,county), the regions, England as a whole and parliamentary constituencies.
Rural Share of Deprivation Lancashire
2. Most deprived rural areas
Strategic influencing and operational tool – highlighting the level, location and characterstics of deprived rural areas.
Based on the Government Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) measure and the finer grained estimates developed by OCSI and our member, Norfolk Rural Community Council developed for: LA (district, unitary,county), regions and England, parliamentary constituencies.
Deprived Rural Areas Cambridgeshire
3. Rural Place Profiles
Support for Community Led Planning (parish planning) – quantitative evidence for smaller rural communities.
Developed for: ‘settlements’ defined by Office for National Statistics), and parishes.
Rural Place Profile St Ives Cornwall
4. Who’s there: Workplace and Daytime Profiles
Data report for targetting services to groups who are actually present in the day (rather than usual evidence on residential populations many of whom are out-commuters.
Developed for: LA (district, unitary,county).
Who’s there: Resident Workplace Shropshire
5. Rural Economy
Explores employment and jobs in rural areas including employment rates and jobs by sector and occupation.
Sets out the strength of the local economy, including the number, type and size of local business units, and levels of small and large businesses.
Highlights levels of unemployment and worklessness in the local rural economy, showing which groups (age and gender) are most likely to be receiving out-of-work benefits.
Developed for: LA (district, unitary,county) and Parliamentary Constituencies.
Rural Economy Report – Craven, Yorkshire
6. Access to Services
Explores distance to services in rural areas, including key themes such as health and education.
Looks at travel times to key services by walking and public transport, highlighting hotspots with the greatest travel times to key services.
Highlights rural areas with high proportions of households lacking access to private transport (cars or vans). Breakdowns of car ownership for key equalities groups is also included.
Developed for: LA (district, unitary,county) and Parliamentary Constituencies.