Chief Statistician’s update: understanding the labour market in Wales

Last month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published an article discussing the current challenges being faced in the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and what steps they are taking to address this. Today, we are discussing how these issues impact labour market statistics for Wales, and the approach we are taking to continue providing a robust and timely picture of the Welsh labour market.

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Chief Statistician’s update: disaggregating justice data for Wales

Today we provide an update on ongoing work to improve the public availability of justice data for Wales, including the development of interactive dashboards to bring together available data for Wales in one place. This morning, the first of these dashboards – the Youth Justice Interactive Dashboard – was published.

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Ukraine Independence Day

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24 August marks Ukraine’s National Day, also known as Independence Day.

Since the launch of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Wales has become a Nation of Sanctuary for thousands of people who have escaped the conflict. In this blog, we describe some of the work using digital tools in Wales to help Ukrainian people stay safe and supported.

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Chief Statistician’s update: Bringing together Fuel Poverty data for Wales

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Last month we told you about the work we’ve been doing to improve access to data on energy efficiency of homes, including the publication of a new dashboard using information on energy performance certificates. If you missed this, you can go back and read the blog post. Today, we’re expanding our work on energy and fuel further by publishing an interactive dashboard of fuel poverty data for homes in Wales.

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Guest Blog: Cyber In Wales: Investing in Growth

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This month we published our Cyber Action Plan for Wales. As we move to delivering the actions in the plan, we asked Pete Burnap, Professor of Data Science & Cybersecurity at Cardiff University, and Director of the Cyber Innovation Hub – which was also launched this month – to write a guest blog about the work they’re doing and how partnerships and collaboration will help  deliver the ambition in the Cyber Action Plan for Wales.

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Cyber: Publishing an Action Plan for Wales

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This week we’re pleased to share that we have published the Cyber Action Plan for Wales.

Over the last few months, we’ve kept you up to date with the development of the Cyber Action Plan through a series of blogs. In this series we have explained what cyber is, how the cyber ecosystem works, why we need a Cyber Action Plan and outlined what we think the priority areas are for cyber in Wales. 

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Cyber: Defining our priorities for Wales

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Back in February we wrote a blog telling you about the development of a Cyber Action Plan for Wales. Since then, we have been working with stakeholders to develop the plan. This has included discussions with industry experts, our academic partners including colleagues from the new Cyber Innovation Hub and digital and technology leads from the public sector.  As part of these discussions we developed a consensus on what we believe are the priority areas for cyber in Wales. These are:

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