The Public Health Community Services Dashboard is a product of the Knowledge, Evidence, and Governance team in the Public Health Division of Birmingham City Council. It has been developed, together with relevant public health leads, to help understand the significant disparity in public health commissioned healthcare service delivery to the population. The objective of this dashboard is to provide effective visualisations that illustrate the variation in public health healthcare service provision at primary care network (PCN) and locality levels. The dashboard utilizes data from NHS Health Checks (HC), exercise prescription from Be Active +, QOF (primary care Quality Outcomes Framework data), smoking cessation, and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) data.

Based on the IMD income domain, the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) measures the proportion of all children aged 0 to 15 living in income deprived families. This was published as part of the Indices of Deprivation by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government.

Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released an updated version of what’s known as the English Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). This scores and ranks relative levels of deprivation in all neighbourhoods (small areas known as LSOAs) across England according to seven different dimensions involving income, employment, education, health, crime, housing, and the living environment. It also summarises this information to local authority level. The latest IMD shows that Birmingham ranks the 6th highest of all English local authorities, in terms of proportions of highly deprived neighbourhoods (39.6% of Birmingham). Middlesborough was the highest ranked local authority (48.8%). The following attachment shows scoring and ranking for all English LSOAs and Birmingham-only LSOAs, if you want to do your own analysis. Full data and guidance can be found at the DCLG IMD 2015 page - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2015