Ask: Rural Disadvantage cannot be fully understood through any single dataset. The Board should approve a shared approach that combines quantitative data, local intelligence and lived experience to identify communities experiencing hidden disadvantage and prioritise areas for action?
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Approve a shared rural intelligence approach that brings together CERI, IMD, service intelligence, local insight and lived experience to provide a more complete understanding of rural disadvantage at a very local level.
Approve partnership mapping to identify existing activity, community assets, service provision, gaps and opportunities for collaboration.
Support the selection of pilot place(s) to test the approach, align partners around shared priorities and evaluate impact.
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Agenda Item 6
Approve the development, testing & adoption of the Composite Exclusion Risk Index (CERI) as part of a wider rural intelligence framework to identify hidden disadvantage.