There's been plenty of activity across the Help Me Investigate: Networks sites on health, education, and welfare since they launched last week. Here are the highlights:
From Help Me Investigate Education:
- Data: Free Schools taking fewer deprived children
- New education data promised on pupils? progress
- How-to: find out academy charity salaries
- Investigating the special education system 1: inclusion statistics
- The price of a University drop-out 2: how do you work out the numbers?
- Links: How Seattle journalist got school censorship scoop
- FOI legislation opens up UCAS and higher education?
- Links: unreliable data on children?s services (FactCheck)
- Young learners? data released
- How To: Find out when the Department for Education will publish its next stats report
- Links: Andrew Lansley ordered to reveal NHS reforms risks report
- Referral to Treatment times (RTT) per PCT March to August 2011
- Advice on investigating health, from the BMJ?s Deborah Cohen
- Patient safety data October 2010 to March 2011
- Data: Freedom of information request statistics for NHS Trusts (as of 23/10/2011)
- Links: NHS payoffs and middle class drinking
And from Help Me Investigate Welfare:
- Isle of Wight?s cuts to care services ruled unlawful
- Cuts to disability benefits: how is your local authority coping?
- Links: Disability benefits paid ?without checks?? The statistics debunked
- No rough sleeping by 2012? The reality of homelessness (video)
If you want to get involved with any of the sites drop me an email on paul@helpmeinvestigate.com or on Twitter @paulbradshaw