News

19th February 2024

The Serious Violence Duty was introduced to ensure relevant services in local areas work together and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence. Partners in Dudley have conducted a Serious Violence Needs Assessment to inform our actions.

17th August 2023

Updated versions of the Dudley Borough in Numbers infographic on the subjects of children and older people are now available. The infographics give a visual representation of facts and figures about the borough across a range of key topics.

22nd June 2023

Children Needs Assessments have been published covering those aged 0 to 5 and 5 to 25 years old, as part of Dudley Council work with partners, stakeholders, community groups, schools and residents to build a new ‘Child Friendly Dudley’.

30th May 2023

The 2021 Census Area Profiler is an interactive Excel-based tool created by Dudley Council and designed to show users the 2021 Census results for an area of their choice, and let them to compare it to any other area.

18th November 2022

The summer of 2022 has seen record temperatures in Dudley, as elsewhere. But what effect have heatwaves had on the number of people dying in the Borough? This new report looks at some of the evidence

17th January 2022

Dudley Council and Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group (now Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group) have produced a SEND Joint Commissioning Strategy to set out their approach to commissioning services for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and providing support to their families and carers.

4th August 2021

A new Children’s (0-5 years) Dashboard has been published, replacing the previous Children’s Profile Tool. The dashboard has interactive content which enables you to explore Dudley’s performance in a range of key indicators for this age group.

12th November 2019

In recent years, Lye has received a bad press with tensions reported between different groups of people and concerns about crime and fly tipping. In a new publication, the people of Lye share their passion about the town through their stories, changing the negative narrative into a positive.

8th October 2019

The 2019 Indices of Deprivation includes the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), the official measure of deprivation for small areas across England, and separate aspects of deprivation covering income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services and the environment. A report is available analysing the indices from a Dudley perspective.

6th September 2019

There are two new editions of the Dudley Borough in Numbers infographic on the subjects of children and older people. The infographics give a visual representation of facts and figures about the borough across a range of key topics.

3rd September 2019

An updated version of the Children’s (0-5 years) Profile Tool has been published, showing Dudley’s performance in a range of key indicators for this age group.

30th August 2019

New population figures show the population of Dudley Borough was an estimated 320,600 in 2018, an increase on the estimate of 319,400 from 2017.

7th January 2019

Visit our Loneliness and Isolation page to find out how this impacts on people’s lives and get a Dudley perspective on the evidence around this subject.

4th January 2019

New figures show the latest life expectancy for men and women in Dudley and how they compare to England.

29th August 2018

The Children’s (0-5 years) Profile Tool has now been published, showing our performance in a number of key indicators for this demographic in the Borough.

2nd July 2018

All About Dudley Borough has gone live!

1st July 2018

New population figures show the population of Dudley Borough was an estimated 319,400 in 2017.

Relevant publications from our old site have now been migrated to the new look All About Dudley Borough.