The sustainability statement for the planned ‘phase two’ extension of the high speed rail link – which would go from Birmingham further north to destinations like Manchester and Leeds – contains a socio-economic appraisal which makes heavy use of deprivation statistics to claim various local development and regeneration opportunities. The[…]
Read More »From a 2007 Environment Agency paper that aimed to define the 50 ‘worst places’ in the country (by combining environmental indicators with the IMD2004), here’s a list of environment-related issues that have been linked to deprivation in various research (citations in document): Air quality – for five key pollutants, the[…]
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Nottingham city council created comprehensive online area profiles through a collaborative effort with partner organisations like the local NHS and police. This includes a powerful online mapping tool which features a plethora of statistics on demographics, crime, economy and deprivation (IMD score) at ward level as well as mapping features from streetlights to youth centres and[…]
Read More »The Skills Funding Agency is a government agency that funds skills training for further education in England. This includes apprenticeships and training schemes, sixth form colleges, learning from prison and adult education. The agency supports “over 1,000 colleges, private training organisations, and employers with £3.6 billion of funding each year”[…]
Read More »Here’s a great example of how local authorities can use the IMD to target programmes more efficiently: Sheffield’s ‘Activity Sheffield’ programme provides free sport and activity sessions for people around the city. The programme’s ‘core team’ focuses on the key age groups of 8 to 16 year olds and those[…]
Read More »According to Hansard records from October 2001 the Ministry of Defence uses the Index of Multiple Deprivation “to inform decisions such as unit moves, site rationalisations and investment decisions on new facilities” I managed to find an example of this in practice – an MoD Strategic Environmental Assessment from November[…]
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This report has some great examples of how the IMD can be used in public health reports to show area inequalities and highlight places of greatest need. It also has some excellent data visualisations. Click on the images to view in larger size. This neatly illustrates the different domains of the[…]
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That’s the title of a report published by the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) in the run up to this year’s election. The authors found that voters in areas of higher deprivation were least likely to vote for one of the ‘big three’ main parties in 2010. Although they[…]
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SHAPE (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation) is: “a web enabled, evidence based application which informs and supports the strategic planning of services and physical assets across a whole health economy.” or in other words, an online mapping tool freely provided by Public Health England for Local Authorities and health[…]
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The UK Medical Schools Council published a report on the need to widen participation in medicine, noting that this is important for wider social mobility as well as providing medicine with a wider talent pool. They analysed the backgrounds of trainee doctors in 2013 and found that 39% came from areas[…]
Read More »The Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) ran from 1995-2001. It pulled together different government programmes and funding streams to try and simplify funding and better support local regeneration projects. According to a 2007 assessment by the Cambridge Department of Land Economy about £26 billion was spent in total with £5.7 billion from the SRB[…]
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In a study by the University of Sheffield’s Social & Spatial Inequalities Research Group, the Indices of Multiple Deprivation were used to look at pupil absence inequalities. Secondary school pupil absence is an indicator in the Education, Skills and Training Domain of the IMD, measured as “the proportion of authorised and unauthorised absences[…]
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Here’s a 2008 article from the Guardian about delays in building the new Liverpool stadium, Anfield Plaza. The article notes how the area around Anfield is currently one of the most deprived places in England with streets of empty and boarded up houses. The area around Venmore street near the stadium[…]
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Here’s a post by Alasdair Rae about the idea of a North South divide in IMD 2010. He points out that while the most deprived LSOA in England was Jaywick, in Essex, the overall picture shows that deprivation, with the exception of London and some pockets of deprivation in the South,[…]
Read More »The Government’s Troubled Families programme targeted support at 120,000 families identified by central government as being in need of ‘turning around’ due to experiencing multiple issues of deprivation such as high truancy rates, lack of employment, physical and mental health problems. DCLG estimated that these families cost society about £8 billion[…]
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Here’s a study from the Journal of Preventive Medicine looking at inequalities in registration for and use of ‘boris bikes’ in London. F. Ogilvie and A. Goodman found that those living in income-deprived areas in London were overall less likely to register for the bike scheme and that users were more likely[…]
Read More »This is a study of consumer satisfaction with retail diversity that looked at consumer perceptions of store choice in their area. The authors found that people who live in deprived areas tended to be more satisfied with any given mix of shops than less deprived consumers, which might suggest that[…]
Read More »Here’s an example from the Hull Daily Mail of how local authorities use deprivation statistics to challenge funding decisions. Hull’s spending power per head of population was reduced by 24.9% in 2014 and council leader Stephen Brady points out the area has higher levels of deprivation than rural areas which were[…]
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The Guardian ran a couple articles in 2012 on work by Alasdair Rae that uses the IMD 2004 through to 2010 and seems to show the pattern of relative poverty in London shifting outwards from the centre by looking at relative changes in ranking. In the main article the paper[…]
Read More »The NHS uses the Index of Multiple Deprivation as part of a formula for allocating dental services, in what is perhaps a recognition of the relationship between tooth decay and deprivation (here is another post on this). Buried in the technical guide to NHS funding formulae allocations I found this:[…]
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In the aftermath of the widespread UK riots of August 2011, the Guardian created an interactive deprivation map placing locations where incidents took place in the context of area deprivation (although they use the term ‘poverty’, the map data is from the IMD 2010). However as commenters pointed out, while[…]
Read More »The Bureau of Investigative Journalism collected data on the locations of payday lenders around the UK, noting that due to growth of the sector “there is now one short-term loans store for every seven banks or building societies on the high street”. They created a league table of local authorities[…]
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Birmingham is a city that frequently crops up when searching for mentions of deprivation – a large, dense city with many pockets of extreme poverty and disadvantage. Like many cities with significant levels of deprivation, local authority policy tends to be quite conscious of this. An interesting example I stumbled[…]
Read More »Here’s a link to a comment piece by Clare Fraser in the Guardian from July 2014 about lack of police engagement with people in deprived areas. The article supports the launch of her report for public sector think tank ‘Reform’ called ‘The expert citizen’. Her main argument is that the[…]
Read More »A pilot study in the Royal Naval Medical Service journal found that Army recruits tend to have worse teeth than Navy recruits, and that RAF recruits have the best teeth of the three services. In fact RAF recruits had on average more than half the tooth decay of Army recruits.[…]
Read More »Here’s a BBC article on NHS statistics collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) about hospital admissions for animal bites. The key finding is the headline that rates of hospital admissions for dog bites are three times higher in the most deprived 10% of areas of England[…]
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Winning 5 medals at the 2012 olympics and with a number of ‘big name’ champions performing internationally, Britain is ‘punching above its weight’ when it comes to boxing (sorry), most likely due to a resilient network of local boxing gyms and a strong framework for pushing talented players to the[…]
Read More »Public Health England analysed child poverty by deprivation by comparing the Indices of Multiple Deprivation with data from the (slightly ominous sounding) ‘National Child Measurement Programme’. They argued there was a strong, “almost linear relationship” between child obesity and the decile of deprivation for the area they live in. This finding was[…]
Read More »The Prince’s Trust is one of the UK’s largest charities, and spent over £52m through its charitable activities last year according to the government charities register. It’s focused on youth unemployment and poverty, targeting unemployed 13-30 year olds and those at risk of exclusion. It supports different projects and schemes[…]
Read More »‘Public Theology’ think tank Theos assessed whether the UK lottery was ‘progressive’ or ‘regressive’ in its distribution of ‘good cause’ funding versus player characteristics. First they analysed the characteristics of lottery players, drawing on several different studies to show that lottery play was more common in lower social classes (by[…]
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