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Welcome to the first of our new shorter, weekly newsletters keeping you updated with Census 2021 developments. With only 44 days to go, we hope to provide you with all of the information you need to help us deliver a successful census.
If you think this bulletin may be of interest to different departments within your local authority, please do forward it.
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Census Engagement Managers will be making contact with CLMs/ACLMs over the coming weeks to find out if you have any specific venues in your local authority where you would like Census Paper Questionnaires delivered for your rough sleeper population. We are aware that in some local authorities rough sleepers are being temporarily housed in hotels and other establishments. If this is the case, no additional venues will need to be put forward as they will be counted at these properties as part of the normal census operation. However if you would like any day / night shelters or hostels to be specified so that you can encourage rough sleepers to complete a census then please pass this information on to your Census Engagement Manager. They will then be able to support you with campaign material and awareness at these establishments.
We have received a number of enquiries from Trading Standards officers about putting out scam prevention messages around the census. We will be issuing some information on this by the end of February.
Thank you for publicising the census on your website. It is very much appreciated. Could we just ask that, where you have publicised the telephone number for our contact centre, could you please state that this will be available from March 1st.
We hope to get this useful document to you next week. It contains FAQs for your front line staff who may be dealing with census queries from the general public.
Thank you to everyone who has put forward iconic buildings in their area to light up purple on census weekend. You will be contacted by M&S Saatchi who are organising the rollout of this across England and Wales.
All buildings who wish to take part will be asked to light their buildings in unison at 20:21 on 19 March 2021 and keep their buildings lit (during the evenings) until, and on, 21 March 2021 (Census day).
For buildings taking part, we would encourage you to contact your local newspaper nearer the time. A press release will be provided to help you with this. The local newspaper may wish to send a photographer to capture the building.
Please talk to your CEM if you have any questions about this.
Professor David Olusoga delivered a livestream lesson to schools yesterday about equality and representation and the importance of the census. You can find his lesson here.
- Issue Eight - August 2020 – featuring updates on recruitment, census support centres, personalized communications toolkits and the census education programme
- Issue Nine - September 2020 – LA Guide, area profiles, Schools Education Programme, future workshops
- Issue Ten - October 2020 – CEMs and the LAPP, LA resources/products, Campaign update, council tax update, schools update
- Special Bulletin - November 2020 Maximising local engagement workshop FAQs
- Issue Eleven - November 2020 – Media toolkits, purple plaques, schools update, QA update, council tax, geography consultation
- Issue Twelve - December 2020 – Population profiles, school update, Council Tax update, Light up Purple
- Issue Thirteen - January 2021 – Students, February workshops, addressing update, website resources
Census 2021 Website: www.census.gov.uk
Recruitment: Census Jobs
Quality Assurance: ONS’s approach and processes for assuring the quality of 2021 Census data
Census 2021 Questionnaire: paper questionnaires are now available to view online
Census Order and Regulations for England and Wales:
Census (England and Wales) Order 2020.
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