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Deprivation
The updated version of the English Indices of Deprivation 20071, reveals the following:
Barnet is more deprived in relation to other local authority areas than it was in 2004 and is now close to the top third of most deprived authorities in the country
Barnet now has six Local Super Output Areas within the 10% most deprived nationally. Within London, Barnet ranks below the middle point, close to the bottom third of least deprived boroughs
Barnet’s rank on most types of deprivation has risen with the exception of the ‘education, skills and training’ domain which shows an improvement
Burnt Oak and Colindale remain the most deprived wards in Barnet by a significant margin, as was the case in 2004
There is a linear relationship between poor health and deprivation which is compounded by age as summarized in Graph 2.
Source: Office for National Statistics data
Graph 2: The relationship between death rates in people aged under 75 years and deprivation levels at an electoral ward level.
Interrogating this data further at Super Output Areas (SOA) reveals a patchwork of deprivation which correlates to the location of social housing stock in the borough. Though there are
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difficulties in comparing data between different years because of the changes in methodology and calculation, but this is a national phenomenon, not exclusive to Barnet.
Index of Multiple Deprivation
The Index of Multiple Deprivation uses a number of data sources with key measurements from the Census; educational data; road traffic accidents; modelling to estimate ‘difficulty of access to owner-occupation; measures of the proportion of households for whom a decision has been made on applications for homeless provision assistance; and health data including GP prescribing data, hospital episode statistics, and average distance from a GP surgery.
The calculations from 2004 to 2007 reveals that Barnet has become more deprived’.
Map 2: Relative deprivation levels in Barnet at census SOA area levelSource: Office for National Statistics data
The new figures show Barnet to be more deprived than in 2004 in relation to other boroughs in both London and England. This worsening is the largest such change nationally. Of 354 English local authorities, Barnet now ranks the 128th most deprived (65 more so than in 2004) and 21st out of the 33 London boroughs, three places worse than in 2004 (1 = most deprived). Barnet is thus more deprived than most local authorities in England but less deprived than most London ones.
Table 1 shows the relative changes that occurred in the main measures of deprivation in Barnet between 2004 and 2007.
Edgware Hale
BurntOak
Colindale
WestHendon
GoldersGreen Childs
Hill
Hendon
GardenSuburb
FinchleyChurch
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Underhill
Oakley EastBarnet
High Barnet
WestFinchley
EastFinchley
Coppetts
Totteridge
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Woodhouse
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Edgware Hale
BurntOak
Colindale
WestHendon
GoldersGreen Childs
Hill
Hendon
GardenSuburb
FinchleyChurch
End
Underhill
Oakley EastBarnet
High Barnet
WestFinchley
EastFinchley
Coppetts
Totteridge
Mill Hill
Woodhouse
BrunswickPark
Edgware Hale
BurntOak
Colindale
WestHendon
GoldersGreen Childs
Hill
Hendon
GardenSuburb
FinchleyChurch
End
Underhill
Oakley EastBarnet
High Barnet
WestFinchley
WestFinchley
EastFinchley
EastFinchley
CoppettsCoppetts
Totteridge
Mill Hill
Woodhouse
BrunswickPark
BrunswickPark
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Table 1 : Average ranks in different deprivations measures at SOA level
IMD measure
Average rank of Barnet’s superoutput areas
(out of 32,482 nationally)
NOTE 1 = most deprived
Change:2004 to 2007
2004 2007*
Barriers to housing and services (wider) [including the proportion of households for whom a decision has been made on applications for homeless provision assistance]
4,916 1,012 3,904
Living environment (outdoors) [incl. air quality, road traffic collisions]
7,963 7,449 514
Crime [burglary, violence, theft, criminal damage] 15,075 12,959 2,116
Income [recipients of means-tested benefits] 16,127 15,021 1,106
Living environment (indoors) [incl. social & private housing in poor condition, houses without central heating]
16,566 16,319 247
Employment [Jobseekers Allowance and Incapacity Benefits claimants, New Deal Scheme participants]
20,461 18,741 1,720
Barriers to housing and services (geographical) [incl. distance from services, e.g. GP surgery, post office]
19,217 18,787 430
Health and disability [incl. hospital statistics.] 23,767 23,193 573
Education (skills) [proportion of working-age adults with no or low qualifications]
26,684 26,703 + 19
Education (children and young people) [incl. Key Stage scores and staying-on rates]
23,419 31,350 + 7,931
Average rank (out of 32,284) 18,755 14,610 4,145
Where the ranking for 2007 has become smaller this reflects a worsening of the position, i.e. a move towards higher deprivation.
The data in Table 6 suggest that, over the last three years, deprivation in Barnet has increased especially, albeit not to a great extent, in terms of more applications for homeless provision, an increase in crime and fewer people being in employment. On the other hand, educational achievements have improved by a relatively large amount.
These changes, which affect a number of SOA areas rather than the whole borough, are unlikely to be especially significant in terms of the need for future health and social care services unless there are further changes in the same direction.