What we are doing

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December 2025 / January 2026

LARIA website

Well, if you go to Council meetings and say that something should be done, there's the possibility you might get asked to do it.  Compared LARIA (Local Research and Intelligence Agency) website with others, shared simplified design and meeting with website provider 12/13th January.

Meeting with Local Authorities

Last one on 16th December.  It's Local Authorities across England, which I'd set up through LARIA so they could simply check in with others on what they do and how they do it.  This was so they could share their work on 2025 Index of Multiple Deprivation.  Next meeting in 20th January to look at consultation on topics for 2031 Census.

Public health funerals

Out of curiosity, looking at "the online registers of record of funerals undertaken by  local authorities".  Starting with East of England.

Statisticians for Society

Completed work carried for a voluntary organisation in Edinburgh to help on managing the data they collect and bids for funding. Through the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Statisticians for Society scheme in which organisations can ask for voluntary work and RSS members can put themselves forward to do this. Just waiting for RSS evaluation.