Workshop

Neighbourhood Knowledge Management:

A revolutionary tool in public services planning and evaluation

 

Please register interest at bookings@nkm.org.uk

 

 

What is Neighbourhood Knowledge Management?
Until now statistics from whatever source at the local level have been collated into areal units such as districts, wards or output areas. There are at least four major difficulties with this approach:

• Boundaries are inflexible and do not link easily to neighbourhoods;
• They are subject to frequent change, causing disruption and additional work locally;
• The statistics linked to them are often years out of date;
• The value of results based on the data is undermined by possible false correlations.

The result is that local planning and analysis is seriously hindered and possibly incorrect in the detail. Resources and initiatives may be poorly targeted and wasted as a consequence.

 

The Δnkm approach, developed over the last six years, overcomes these difficulties by unlocking the value in local administrative data systems and linking the information at household level using the local property database, which is a register of all properties in a local authority area.

 

The conference is for:

• Chief officers and service heads
• Policy and Performance managers
• Database Managers
• Other interested individuals

in local authorities, NHS bodies, emergency, community safety, transport and utilities, the police, regeneration and community development agencies.

 

Conference leaders

Professor Les Mayhew is Professor of Statistics at Cass Business School, Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance, and Managing Director of Mayhew Associates Ltd. He is a former senior civil servant with nearly 20 years of experience in the Departments of Health, Social Security, Treasury (CSO), and ONS, a former professor of geography and a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

Gillian Harper is a Research Officer at Birkbeck College specialising in GIS and data analysis within Neighbourhood Knowledge Management. She has six years experience of working with administrative datasets for household level analysis in the local authority, PCT and research environments. Her research interest and Masters thesis is on using administrative data to model local conditions.