Austerity audit

Richie-from-the-Boro

- an interesting one-click roll up of all 10 benefit cuts by postcode here

nannytone_2

typical! my authority is one of the few that are affected by over £600 per person. no wonder i'm feeling the pinch!

rogerblack

Now, compare that map with the below maps of council, and national politics, and you can see why for the conservatives, from the point of view of their constituents, don't consider it a problem. (from http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-council-control-2012-map-in-association-with-capita-symonds-and-sector/5002769.article )







No, the match isn't perfect, but it is quite striking.

http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/cresr/sites/shu.ac.uk/files/hitting-poorest-places-hardest_0.pdf

is also on a similar topic. - to quote in part:

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
The older industrial areas of England, Scotland and Wales
. These include
substantial parts of North West and North East England, the South Wales Valleys
and the Glasgow area in Scotland. Older industrial areas account for the largest
proportion of the worst-hit places.

A number of seaside towns
. These include Blackpool, Torbay, Hastings, Great
Yarmouth and Thanet (which includes Margate). Not all seaside resorts are badly hit
but this group – which includes several of the least prosperous – matches the impact
on older industrial areas.

Some London boroughs
. These include not just those that have traditionally been
identified as ‘deprived’ (eg Hackney) but also boroughs such as Westminster and
Brent.
At the other end of the spectrum, a substantial part of southern England outside London is
much less acutely affected by the welfare reforms. A number of rural areas in northern
England, including most of North Yorkshire and parts of Cumbria, plus the Aberdeen area in
Scotland, also escape relatively lightly.

Richie-from-the-Boro

HiYa rogerblack, I did, and yes you are correct its obvious why they don't consider it a problem. Although their usual [all parties reverse it] political / economic gerrymandering of the boundary changes this year failed with the Cameron / Clegg debacle for the first time ever in my long years.

One thing that did surprise me from the map was the deprivation % of neighbourhoods local to me. A conversation just a few days ago on here reference ASDA, this area in 20 years :

- lost 99% of shops
- two of the three chemists
- all but two GP's
- all 3 banks
- both post offices
- and all NHS clinics except one

The reason .. .. crime & deprivation. No NHS staff would work there, they couldn't get car insurance and the NHS would not pay the additional premiums. Chemists and doctors surgeries were robbed and smashed that often only one remains the other functioning one is an NHS satellite operation, both have triple door systems that are camera'd and lock the individual between two doors. The remaining clinic is in a different postal area but has more security staff than clinicians - you get the picture. ASDA was allowed a build previously refused for 15 years, because they provide most of the missing services along with food, however the 'adjacent' bank & post office they opened along with the store closed years ago.

My point is in this place surprisingly their austerity % is higher than the area I live in, they 37% me 55%. The issue here is the ASDA area postcode incorporates Redcar-in-Cleveland, Redcar is 8 miles from ASDA and by comparison an affluent [Redcarians would not agree] area. So there are anomalies with the different geographic wards within the same postcode. I would have expected an austerity figure in the ASDA area of twice as much as of that of Redcar area of Clevelend.

All in all its a helpful 1 click map if people haven't noticed - if you pause your mouse pointer on the different colours of the austerity wheel it shows the % breakdown by for example :

- bedroom tax
- household benefit cap
- DLA
- etc

Brassedoff

Mine appears to be less than £200 which is strange as I live in a place that is so schizophrenic to be in the top 10 for deprivation and poor households and top 10 of high income households.

You say "The reason .. .. crime & deprivation. No NHS staff would work there, they couldn't get car insurance and the NHS would not pay the additional premiums. Chemists and doctors surgeries were robbed and smashed that often only one remains the other functioning one is an NHS satellite operation" . Just an observation can you blame any business/organisation or staff not wanting to work in these areas if they face being a victim of crime?

Richie-from-the-Boro

Brassedoff wrote: »

Mine appears to be less than £200 which is strange as I live in a place that is so schizophrenic to be in the top 10 for deprivation and poor households and top 10 of high income households.

You say "The reason .. .. crime & deprivation. No NHS staff would work there, they couldn't get car insurance and the NHS would not pay the additional premiums. Chemists and doctors surgeries were robbed and smashed that often only one remains the other functioning one is an NHS satellite operation" . Just an observation can you blame any business/organisation or staff not wanting to work in these areas if they face being a victim of crime?

Blame, no certainly not.

I don't blame either the the NHS as an organisation [duty of care] or their staff who would have ever increasing premiums and an everlasting terror of going to work in that location. Eventually the NHS / LA spent megga bucks on a fully camera monitored corral arrangement, the toe-rags just ran over the roof tops 'ballied' up laughing in front of the cameras.

Top 10 / deprivation and simultaneously top 10 of high income households doesn't fit while less than 30% of the deprivation level .. .. of for example my area. I'll have a look at that.

Brassedoff

:rotfl:Ok, I don't blame you personally. Well only for half the country


It's true, we have a massive council estate with thousands of homes covering one half of the town which is in the EU's top 10, yet on the other side there is a large area that has properties ranging from £250-£3.5m. That side is in the top 10 of disposable income in the country. It's a strange town and very divided. There's eight large public schools within a nine mile area who then feed into the other local public school (Rugby), then one of the largest state schools on the other side with 3,500 kids, its massive!

Richie-from-the-Boro

- Rugby there are 240 rich people for every poor person and is ranked 194th for % of pop living in deprived areas
- Middlesbrough there are 47 rich people for every poor person and is ranked 41st for % of pop living in deprived areas

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