Making council data more open, and encouraging development by local digital enthusiasts could also have benefits, potentially leading to tools that will help communities to help themselves.
They have pointed to Lambeth and Southwark council data [pdf] suggesting there will be no shortage of secondary places locally next year, and a council document showing there were concerns about traffic congestion [pdf] even when the primary was allowed to expand.
Nevertheless, the watchdog said its research - based on council data and auditors' reports - suggested most councils were dealing with the tough financial settlement and expected still to stay in the black.
In the past year only 9960 have been consented, and new council data shows fewer than 7000 actually built.
According to city council data, over 6,000 people couldn't pay bail ranging from $500 to as low as 20 bucks.
To assess pre-service attrition between training enrolment and registration with the nursing council, data for a cohort that enrolled in training from 1999 to 2004 and completed training by 2010 was analyzed.
In 2004, despite the existence of a variety of independent sources of health workforce data, (including censuses and other national surveys, the Ministry of Health (MOH), district level sources, independent research studies, and health professional council data) [ 10], Uganda was described as being in need of better information about the state of its health workforce [ 11].
59 Because outcomes were measured in the Fenland Study between 2005 and 2013, and exposures were calculated using local council data from 2011, the consumption levels of takeaway food and body mass index values for some participants predated their estimated exposure level.
To be sure, there are warm words on councils providing data and local intelligence, but this is all simply a fig leaf if councils cannot make decisions from such data.
Only 169 councils provided data to the FOI – 22 refused and 27 did not reply.
