The Society for Location Analysis

Place Based Budgeting: Making Efficiency Savings
with OAC in an Age of Austerity

Date: Monday 6th September 2010
Venue: The Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX
Time: 13.30 - 16.30

Overview

Cuts in government spending have created huge pressure to make efficiency savings across the public sector.
This is driving a need for new and creative ways of maintaining successful delivery of public services while operating under
constrained financial and human resources. OAC offers a shared understanding of local areas by linking intelligence and
customer insight from across the public sector, and through this integration, enables the delivery of better services at lower cost.

OAC is a free and open geodemographic classification that is supplied by the Office of National Statistics.
In this half day seminar a variety of expert speakers will introduce you to a diverse set of tools, software
and case study analyses that demonstrate how OAC can be used to understand place based budgeting and make
efficiency savings.

Programme

• 13.30 – 14.00 – Registration
• 14.00 – 14.10 – Introduction. Alex Singleton: University College London
• 14.10 – 14.35 – OAC in an age of austerity. John Fisher: Local Futures
• 14.35 – 15.00 – Using geo-demographic classifications for customer insight. Miranda Webb and Andrew Rudd:
  Worcestershire County Council
• 15.00 – 15.25 – Married to MOSAIC or could we have an affair with OAC? Steven Rose: Birmingham City Council
• 15.25 – 15.50 – The British Population Survey – an introduction to a new perspective. Mike Hare: The BPS
• 15.50 – 14.15 – Open Data, Free Tools. Alex Singleton and Daniel Lewis: University College London
• 16.15 – 16.30 – Questions for the Speakers / Discussion.

For more information and to register for this event visit the OAC website

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