Simple tools to help you achieve your goals
Whatever your background is, we’ve got resources tailormade to help maximise your impact – from raising awareness to changing outcomes.
All Together Inspired Toolkit
The All Together Inspired Toolkit has been created to give you everything you need to join the movement and raise awareness, insights and skills throughout Cheshire and Merseyside.
A Rapid Situational Analysis on Child and Family Poverty in Cheshire and Merseyside: Executive Summary (2024)
“There are 100,300 children aged under 16 years in Cheshire and Merseyside living in relative low-income families.” Read the executive summary of the child and family poverty situational analysis for Cheshire and Merseyside.
A Rapid Situational Analysis on Child and Family Poverty in Cheshire and Merseyside: Full Report (2024)
“There are 100,300 children aged under 16 years in Cheshire and Merseyside living in relative low-income families.” Read the full child and family poverty situational analysis for Cheshire and Merseyside report.
Local Authority Dashboard
The Health Foundation’s local authority dashboard brings together data and insights on the state of health and health inequalities across all local authorities in England. Explore how our health is shaped by factors such as housing, employment and income, and explore differences between neighbourhoods in each local authority.
Reducing health inequalities: A guide for NHS trust board members (2024)
A practical guide to support NHS trust board members to address health inequalities as part of their core business. It outlines why trusts should act on health inequalities, includes a vision for what good looks like, a self-assessment tool for trusts to use to determine where they are in their journey and a list of suggested objectives for board members.
This guide is specifically designed for NHS trusts and does not cover the roles and responsibilities for addressing health inequalities at the wider system level.
England’s Widening Health Gap: Local Places Falling Behind
This report from the Institute of Health Equity confirms widening inequalities in life expectancy between regions in England and within local authorities since 2010. These widening inequalities are associated with an average reduction in local authority spending power of 34 percent.
Commercial Determinants of Health (CDOH) Essentials
CDOH Essentials is a set of materials designed for public health professionals to use to plan and run an introductory workshop or briefing session on the commercial determinants of health for public health teams and key internal partners within local authorities. The materials have been developed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Commercial Determinants Research Group and endorsed by the Association of Directors of Public Health.
Map of Cheshire and Merseyside showing risk factors for digital exclusion
An interactive map of Cheshire and Merseyside showing various risk factors for digital exclusion (age, rurality, deprivation, type of internet use), current digital inclusion initiatives already happening, and community assets that could be mobilised for further digital inclusion work.
Women’s work: How gender equality can deliver stronger local economies (2024)
Despite decades of campaigning and significant legislative progress, structural and systemic barriers to gender equality in local and national economies persist. Local, combined and devolved authorities can, however, have a transformational impact on supporting gender equality in their local economies. This research provides a deep understanding of the gender inequality challenges and barriers that women face in Leeds and outlines an agenda for change for gender.
Marmot Places: the areas taking a proactive local approach to health inequalities
Read about the Marmot Places across England and Wales who are taking a proactive local approach to health inequalities, with a spotlight on Knowsley’s joined up way of working on inequalities.
Data into Action
Data into Action is the population health management platform for Cheshire and Merseyside. The programme brings together the activities and projects that access and use the Cheshire and Merseyside data asset – the CM Secure Data Environment (SDE), that was previously called CIPHA – with the aim of delivering data into action through a unified programme.
Learn more about the population health management products available including the enhanced case finding tool and the population health dashboard (including the All Together Fairer indicators).
Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT)
The Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) is a framework that allows professionals to systematically review their programme of work or service to ensure that it is as inclusive as possible and actively promotes the reduction of health inequalities.