Nottingham is spending almost £2 million on training ‘super parents’ to provide new families with advice and support, targeting the most deprived areas of the city. As covered in the Nottingham Post: “Mums and dads will be paired with a family mentor, who will also support them with issues like[…]
Read More »As this article in the Telegraph discusses, researchers from Cambridge devised a method to identify gentrifying areas in London, comparing social media data (twitter and foursquare) with the Indices of Deprivation. “Researchers compared half a million tweets and Foursquare check-ins across more than 40,000 London locations, with area deprivation scores. They found that less[…]
Read More »“Six steps charities can follow to master data to boost funding” This is an article in Third Sector magazine, a publication for the UK’s voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Among the valuable insights is this gem on use of open data: “There are plenty of open data sources which can enrich your own[…]
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This guardian article on calls for a ‘sugar tax’ cites statistics on child obesity prevalence by deprivation: As it happens these Public Health England (PHE) obesity statistics have been mentioned before on this site. But the association with deprivation made us curious about whether sugar consumption has a similar relationship. This[…]
Read More »The Newham Recorder has an article summarising local changes in relative deprivation, observing that while deprivation levels have fallen significantly income deprivation affecting older people still remains an issue. This is a good example of use of how the two additional indices can be used to focus on income deprivation[…]
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The Coventry Telegraph has run a few stories featuring the newly updated Indices of Deprivation. Coverage focuses on an LSOA in Coventry which is the most deprived area in the Midlands and 8th most deprived in England. The site also has reactions to the news from members of the public and a[…]
Read More »The Sunderland Echo featured this story on the updated Indices of Deprivation. The article highlights the local result in the employment deprivation domain: The report includes a table of the 20 worst-hit local authorities, which places Sunderland at number 13, with 18.5 per cent of working age adults in employment deprivation.
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http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/community/community-news/resort-still-ranked-with-most-deprived-1-7490256
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/10-worst-deprived-places-england-6548105
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http://www.expressandstar.com/business/uk-money/2015/09/30/essex-seaside-village-jaywick-tops-englands-deprivation-league/
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http://www.heart.co.uk/essex/news/local/jaywick-most-deprived-area-in-england-again/#BVU2CIyygCGqVjoT.97
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http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Jaywick-named-deprived-area-England-new/story-27898071-detail/story.html
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This story in the Evening Standard has picked up on the fact that LSOAs in areas often thought of as affluent such as Chelsea and Kensington, as well as the headline’s West End, are among the 20 highest scoring places in the country for the Living Environment domain of the new[…]
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/609126/Jaywick-Essex-The-most-deprived-area-in-the-UK-forgotten-seaside-town
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http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/cuts-blamed-as-hartlepool-listed-among-most-deprived-areas-in-uk-1-7489752
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Do you live in one of the country’s most deprived areas?
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http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/incoming/halton-now-top-20-most-10163989
Read More »If you live in Reading, Wokingham or Bracknell, you can search your postcode to see how the area you live in ranks in terms of deprivation. http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/how-deprived-live-reading-wokingham-10167994
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/deprivation-manchester-stats-city-top-10166607
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/30/jaywick-tops-list-most-deprived-english-neighbourhoods
Read More »Article on BBC regarding English Indices of Deprivation 2015 This was the most popular article on the BBC news site for a time on 30th September 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34401236
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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[…]
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[…]
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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 »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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