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Abstract
This article examines the availability of data to produce a rationale for the allocation of resources to develop learning opportunities focused on a particular geographical area. Data may be generated through people's engagement with various systems that register their involvement, such as school, adult education, unemployment and social security benefits. Ward or postal district/postcode performance within individual data sets needs to be interpreted, so that the relationship between different results across a local authority's patch is understood. The analysis of various data sets builds up a profile of an area. The combination and layering of different data sets may or may not produce a correlation which supports the case for intervention, which no one set of data can provide. The consequence of such an exercise with London Borough of Ealing has been the targeting of resources on the wards and postal district that make up the Northolt area of the Borough.