Deprivation & Poverty Issues
Recent Progress
The city has received funding from New Deal for Communities, Sure Start/ Children's Fund, On-Track and Neighbourhood Renewal Fund to run programmes which have worked to improve:
- childcare and nurseries
- schools
- community safety
- family support
- job options
- local environment
- health
Current position
Of xx LSOAs in the city, xx are in the country's 15% most deprived. People in deprived areas are more likely to have poor health, lower life expectancy and educational achievement, difficulties with financial management, higher unemployment and crime or anti-social behaviour and housing problems. For instance, total crime per 1,000 of the population is about xx in xx compared with xx across the city as a whole. About xx% of Area xx students achieved level 4 or above in key stage 2 science compared to 85% across the city.
The lowest-paid 10% of workers here earn 51% of average city earnings compared to 46% nationally of average city/region earnings nationally.
There are significant issues around worklessness as depicted in the bar chart below. The city currently has significantly higher levels of Incapacity Benefit and Jobseekers Allowance Claimants than the Region and the national average.
Worklessness: Latest levels of benefit claimants (Source: DWP)
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Interactive report of key deprivation indicators Open in new window
What we plan to do
Use Neighbourhood Renewal funding for a range of projects in 10 priority neighbourhoods addressing:
- community participation
- community safety
- employment
- education and family support
- housing
- health, and
- liveability
To ensure these projects really do address local needs, they should be developed by local communities through local Neighbourhood Action Plans.
Through xx, improve learning and job opportunities for area xx residents.
Target further and higher education at groups under-represented in education.
Improve mix of housing tenures in neighbourhoods dominated by particular tenure types