Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion Ltd
Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI), Oxford University's first spin-out from the Social Sciences, was launched in October 2003 to help local government identify deprived neighbourhoods, target resources, evaluate programme effectiveness and strengthen regeneration bids.
OCSI consultants are internationally-acknowledged experts in developing small area measures of social and economic exclusion - the technical developments behind OCSI are based on nearly two decades of ground-breaking research at the Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) in Oxford University's Department of Social Policy and Social Work. Recent SDRC projects include the National Indices of Deprivation, for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The English Index (IMD 2000) - described as "a reverse Domesday Book" of ward-by-ward deprivation - is currently the basis for allocating several billion pounds funding to deprived areas.
OCSI provides an 'applied' service using administrative data, alongside
the research carried out by the SDRC.