Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

2020-12-18

Changed

Updated interactive map links

2020-12-11

Added

Included proportion of older population as a clinical vulnerability indicator for Wales, Scotland and NI

Changed

Updated VI with 2019 populations

2020-11-11

Added

Aggregated VI into Local Resilience Forums (England and Wales)

2020-11-03

Added

Aggregated VI into Primary Care Networks in England

2020-07-06

Added

Metadata folder and file to generate templates

2020-06-24

Added

Access to green spaces to health/wellbeing vulnerability domain
Financial vulnerability indicators to economic vulnerability domain
Aggregate VI into UK regions and Tactical Cells

Changed

Updated VI outputs
Bug fix in calculating 'Extent' when aggregating to higher geographies.

2020-06-01

Added

Financial vulnerability data from CACI to the Hardship Fund Vulnerability Index

Changed

Temporarily removed demographics from the Hardship Fund Vulnerability Index

2020-05-29

Changed

Moved Tactical Cell analysis code into a separate repo: https://github.com/britishredcrosssociety/tactical-cell-insights

2020-05-23

Added

Functions to calculate population-weighted scores and extent, and aggregate into higher geographies

Changed

Re-created Local Authority Vulnerability Index based on population-weighted scores
MSOA creation scripts now automatically delete existing copies of .geojson so you don't have to manually delete when recreating the VI

2020-05-18

Added

Food vulnerability model for UK's devolved nations

2020-05-13

Added

Vulnerability Index to the analysis of Covid-19 mortality

2020-05-12

Added

Jobs in transport and storage (inc postal) to Welsh economic vulnerability
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Admission Rates (Age-Standardised) per 100K pop - 3 Yr avg(FY 15/16 - 17/18) to Welsh clinical vulnerability
All Respiratory Diseases: Emergency Admission Rates (Age-Standardised) per 100K pop - 3 Yr avg(FY 15/16 - 17/18) to Welsh clinical vulnerability

Changed

Re-added air quality to Welsh social vulnerability

2020-05-08

Added

MSOA-level digital exclusion to Social Vulnerability domain
Economic Vulnerability indicators for Northern Ireland
Other new indicators to all nations

Changed

All nations now use the updated, IMD-style method of calculating domain scores

2020-05-07

Added

Analysis of ethnicity, vulnerability and deprivation

2020-05-01

Added

Bespoke analysis for British Red Cross Hardship Fund - modelling vulnerability for people who might need immediate access to money
Aggregated food vulnerability into Local Authorities

Changed

Cosmetic tweaks to MSOA-level food vulnerability
Updated all ArcGIS maps with latest data

2020-05-01

Added

Domain weighting function
MSOA file updates for England and Wales using new domain weightings

2020-04-30

Added

Indicators for Wales Vulnerability Index from OCSI
Added hospital accessibility to Social Vulnerability (for Wales)

2020-04-28

Added

Access (travel distance/time) to Post Offices for England, Wales and Scotland
Bespoke index for "food vulnerability"

2020-04-26

Added

Calculated food bank accessibility for Scotland
Added access to food banks to Social Vulnerability (for England, Wales and Scotland)
Added frailty to Health/Wellbeing Vulnerability (for England)