TGMW02
26 March 2013 to 26 March 2013
Original URL: http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/TGM/tgmw02.shtml
Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) would like to engage with academic mathematicians and statisticians to address major policy challenges and to inform its decision-making. We would like to invite all interested academics, and especially early career researchers, to take part in this one-day workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge on 26 March 2013.
Generally, DCLG works to move decision-making power from central government to local councils. This helps put communities in charge of planning, increases accountability and helps citizens to see how their money is being spent.
Some of DCLGâs responsibilities include:
DCLG would like to collaborate with academic mathematicians to address planning and policy-making challenges. The priority areas, to be presented at the workshop, include:
Homelessness is often considered to apply only to people who are âsleeping roughâ. Most of DCLGâs homelessness statistics relate, however, to the statutorily homeless, i.e. those households which meet specific criteria of priority need set out in legislation, and to whom a homelessness duty has been accepted by a local authority. Such households are rarely homeless in the literal sense of being without a roof over their heads, but are more likely to be threatened with the loss of their current accommodation. DCLG envisages that the mathematicians will try to identify any key mathematical relationships in the policy area of statutory homelessness, although there may be some scope for exploring the related areas of rough sleeping and the âhidden homelessâ (people who are typically staying with family or friends), for which the data sources are more limited, particularly for the latter category.
DCLG is supporting the Fire Emergencies and Resilience Directorate (FRED) in considering and defining any gaps between existing capabilities and the capabilities required to ensure national resilience. In particular, DCLG would like help with:
Under the Business Rates Retention Scheme, local authorities can now pool their business rates income. DCLG has spent the last 9 months introducing pooling and have 13 pools (comprising of 90 local authorities) which will operate from 1 April 2013. DCLG would like help in developing a model to simulate local authoritiesâ income levels on an annual basis. The data required to initially construct the model is already available but there are limitations on the types of the information available to simulate future income positions. For example, local authority income could be simulated using historic growth, but we know that there is a large degree of volatility in business rates income so historic growth cannot predict future income. Therefore the model should consider the wide range of volatility and simulate growth scenarios to enable DCLG to undertake a sophisticated degree of scenario planning.
DCLG will present a discussion paper on each topic and will invite academic contributors to suggest ideas for improvement of the current modelling practices. There will be a parallel session for each topic. The aim of the workhop will be to identify potential areas for projects that can be taken forward collaboratively, for example, as MSc projects, internships or other suitable collaborative mechanisms.
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Tuesday 26th March 2013 | |||
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08:45 to 09:10 | No Room Required | ||
09:10 to 09:15 | Room 1 | ||
09:15 to 09:55 | Room 1 | ||
09:55 to 10:35 | Room 1 | ||
10:35 to 11:15 | Room 1 | ||
11:15 to 11:40 | No Room Required | ||
11:40 to 13:00 |
Breakout sessions in groups to discuss homelessness, resilience assets and business rates pooling |
Room 1 | |
13:00 to 14:00 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:20 |
Breakout sessions in groups to discuss homelessness, resilience assets and business rates pooling |
Room 1 | |
15:20 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:30 to 17:30 | No Room Required |
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