Item - 2015.CD6.3

The Community Development and Recreation Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council receive the report (September 2, 2015) from the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration for information.

This report presents the September 2015 edition of the Toronto Social Development Dashboard (SDD). The Dashboard provides a graphical summary of the most relevant and recent socio-economic indicators available to help inform Community Development and Recreation Committee and Council's decision-making on a range of social development issues. This version of the dashboard provides updated quarterly data for the second quarter (the months of April, May and June) of 2015.

The SDD reports available indicators that reflect the most current characteristics on social wellbeing. The SDD provides high-level, citywide metrics, which complement current place-based social data reporting systems such as the City's Wellbeing Toronto (www.toronto.ca/wellbeing), and other dashboards like the Toronto Economic Dashboard being used at Economic Development Committee.