Emerging evidence of needs and impacts

COVID-19: Review of emerging  evidence of needs and impacts on  Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

The Intelligence teams from Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council, Public Health and the Clinical Commissioning Group are working together to produce an overview of the emerging evidence of the impact COVID-19 & associated measures have had on Cambridgeshire and Peterborough residents. This includes reviewing the emerging needs of residents.

We have adopted an approach of releasing several information packs as and when data becomes available, rather than delaying publication for an extended period of time until all analysis is completed. We will produce publicly available collated evidence and executive summaries and publish them here on Cambridgeshire Insight.

Evidence Pack 1 includes data on

  •     Direct Health Impacts (progression of the pandemic)
  •     Economic Impacts (broad overview of employment sector and national support schemes)
  •     Environmental and Transport Impacts (changes in travel patterns)

Download the Evidence Pack in the following link: 09-2021 Covid Impacts and Needs Assessment Evidence Pack 1.1

Download the Executive Summary in the following link: 09-2021 Covid Impacts and Needs Assessment Executive Summary 1.1

Evidence Pack 2 reviews the evidence of needs and impacts on Children and Young People in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough​ on

  • Demographic changes in CYP (Children and Young People) 
  • Direct Health impacts  
  • Educational disruption   
  • Physical health impacts  
  • Wellbeing and Mental Health impacts  
  • Safeguarding children and young people  
  • Employment and NEET impacts  

Download the Evidence Pack in the following link: 07-2022 Covid Impacts and Needs Assessment Evidence Pack 2

Download the Executive Summary in the following link07-2022 Covid Impacts and Needs Assessment Executive Summary 2

Youth Unemployment 

While the COVID-19 pandemic has had an economic impact on people of all age groups, there is national evidence to suggest that young people have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and in some cases, have not seen these impacts fade as quickly as older workers in the labour market.

The Research team have produced a paper on Youth Unemployment to provide an initial look at the emerging findings from the local evidence base and wider data sources which will be vital in monitoring the recovery of the local economy and young people’s participation in it. This includes locally availably data sources for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, to determine the extent of the impact for young people in the local labour market. This report coincides with the end of significant government support schemes which have supported people over the last 18 months during the pandemic. Therefore, this will act as a baseline for future monitoring which will be imperative in understanding how people are impacted as schemes like the job retention scheme, also known as furlough, the self-employment income support scheme and the £20 universal credit uplift come to an end.

Click here for the summary infographic

Click here for the report