Jonathan Fagg

Senior Data Journalist for the BBC Central Editorial Team’s England Data Unit.

[Meghan Owen @MeghantheOwen]

'Being a young person feels a bit bleak right now'

Follow our live coverage looking at youth unemployment in London as new @ONS data shows that the youth unemployment rate in London is now higher than anywhere else in the UK.

https://t.co/G1iD1biby2

[Meghan Owen @MeghantheOwen]

From @jpfagg at the BBC data unit

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

It's in every song and advert at the moment, but how common is a white Christmas? @EmaSabljak has crunched the Met's numbers since 1960 to see.
https://t.co/u5JhlzcJqL

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

Some fantastic work by @EmaSabljak and @ecwebster22 went into this.

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

Our latest on the mental health crisis among prison staff, which led to almost 150,000 working days being lost in England last year - up 44% from 2019. https://t.co/B0RUqXjJAf

[Meghan Owen @MeghantheOwen]

Rising rents and frozen housing benefits are pushing more renters into homelessness.

This will be felt acutely in Hackney - with an estimated £350 cash shortfall between ever-rising local rents and local housing allowance rates.

https://t.co/MPcY6kRmMi

[Meghan Owen @MeghantheOwen]

High street gambling venues are going unchecked up and down the country.
More than 1 in 3 councils in England and Wales have not inspected a single one in the past year.
Story for @BBCNews @BBCLondonNews
https://t.co/eYMUJlKAFp

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

Excellent work by @Gerghana for the England Data Unit:
Empty homes are on the rise. So why aren't they being used to solve the housing shortage?
https://t.co/VXPZmW0DM0

[Andrew Picken @BBCandrewpicken]

https://t.co/O9OZknqAMM

[Nikki Mitchell @BBCNikkiM]

Gruesome, but a compelling watch. Meet the man who scrubs away human biological matter after traumatic deaths so no one else has the face it. ⁦@BBCSouthNews⁩ #Hampshire https://t.co/wJ6130rbfL

[Nikki Mitchell @BBCNikkiM]

Are taxpayers funding a cost of dying crisis? Tackling deprivation key to reversing growing numbers of what used to be called ‘paupers’ funerals. ⁦@BBCSouthNews⁩ ⁦@CPCpopulation⁩ ⁦@unisouthampton⁩ #London #Birmingham #Manchester https://t.co/PfiFmtpfJx

[Miguel Roca @miguelrocadata]

ICYMI: Had the pleasure and privilege of working with some brilliant colleagues @BBCNews on our latest story about the latest speeding stats.

Check it out 👇🏽

https://t.co/E0o0X0epqX

@robertcuffe Alex Emery @KrisBramwell @England_Rob_ David Verry

[Hannah Karpel @Hannahkjourno]

Children as young as 10 and 11 have been recorded by police as victims and alleged perpetrators of cyberstalking in England. My latest investigation with @bbcsoutheast is out today. Have a read 👇

https://t.co/kVbZ8JJtKC

[bbcpetercooke @bbcpetercooke]

https://t.co/jVaxxC5Cdl

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

@jessphillips called these reviews important opportunities to learn lessons and prevent future deaths, accepting more should be done to ensure the process was "effective and timely".
Some brilliant, diligent reporting by @lauren_zo, @louise_fewster and @SabbiyahPervez.

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

Home Office guidance says domestic homicide reviews should be done in 6 months, but BBC research suggests just 1% are. Pauline Jones said the near 3-year wait for a review into her daughter's death was "hell on earth".
https://t.co/CChnpHgaTX

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

@OllieSamuels Learn a bit of data - you can get pretty darn far with pivot tables

[Jonathan Fagg @JPFagg]

Very well deserved, and congrats to @lauren_zo for her featured data work!

[bbcpetercooke @bbcpetercooke]

Very proud to have won the CIRCOM 2025 News Report Award for our Dads vs Knives special.

All the credit goes to the team - @JosieHannett @bigbenmoore Alex Bish & Georgia Poncia.

Thanks to Martin Cosser & Colin Knox for sharing their stories.

https://t.co/HNKDLfCIUs

[bbcpetercooke @bbcpetercooke]

Very proud to have won the CIRCOM 2025 News Report Award for our Dads vs Knives special.

All the credit goes to the team - @JosieHannett @bigbenmoore Alex Bish & Georgia Poncia.

Thanks to Martin Cosser & Colin Knox for sharing their stories.

https://t.co/HNKDLfCIUs

[Paul Lynch @Paul_SDU]

The Shared Data Unit worked on this brilliant documentary with @BBCWales and the accompanying online piece. We gathered data about the toxic legacy left behind by heavy industry across the UK: https://t.co/vGlcZgm97F