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[…]
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/30/jaywick-tops-list-most-deprived-english-neighbourhoods
Read More »Launched in 2003, Supporting People was a £1.8 billion ring-fenced part of local authority funding intended to fund services to help vulnerable people live independently. This includes groups such as the homeless, the mentally ill, HIV/AIDS patients, people with disabilities and young care leavers. The amount of Supporting People grant[…]
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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 »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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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 »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 »With rump steaks for 50p, 30 eggs for £2.10 and products from rival stores sitting alongside each other on the shelves, it is obvious that the Community Shop, which officially opened on Monday, is not the average supermarket. – Haroon Siddique, The Guardian, 15 December 2014 Community shop is the social[…]
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Source: Guardian, Campaign for Fairer Gambling The Guardian ran an article on research by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling that suggests bookmakers are concentrated in, and take more money from, areas of higher deprivation as measured by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010. Find out more: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/englands-poorest-spend-gambling-machines
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