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1
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Give an example of the least deprived ward in Camden and say why:

A 
FROGNAL/FITZJOHNS:
• crime rate: 61.6/1000
• income support: 0.8/1000
• median house price: £900,000
• cars per household: 0.8
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From ARC GIS what did you find out about Somers Town, Haverstock and St Pancras?

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  1. They have the highest %age of house holds with unemployed parents in Camden
  2. They have the lowest incomes IMD (2010)
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From ARC GIS what did you find out about Frognal/Fitzjohns, Hampstead and Belsize Park?

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  1. They have the greatest incomes (2010)

2. They have the highest employment rates in Camden

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Illustrate income inequalities with a “killer fact”:

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The median household income in Frognal/Fitzjohns (£45,000) is more than TWICE that of St Pancras/Somers town

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Illustrate house shortages in Camden with a “killer fact”:

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Weekly rent for a 2 bedroom flat is 71% of median weekly income in Camden!

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Illustrate life expectancy with a “killer fact”:

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There is a 11 year difference between male life exp. in Somers town and Hampstead

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Show some management strategies to dealing with housing in Camden (Georgia Gould):

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• ~300 new housing application/month

= new bedroom standard (family +1

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Show a management strategy to deal with Fuel poverty in Camden (Georgia Gould):

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• 8.9% of camden in fuel poverty

= Affordable warmth services: 600

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From Primary Fieldwork which wards in Camden are the most deprived?

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ST. PANCRAS, SOMERS TOWN & BLOOMSBURY (scored lowest in):

  • street cleanliness survey
  • building survey
  • accessibility (least amount of aid in place for impaired)
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From your primary data/fieldwork which wards in Camden were least deprived?

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FROGNAL, HAMPSTEAD, HIGHATE, BELSIZE (scored highest in):
• street cleanliness
• Building survey
• Burglaranility Index

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How are the Camden Inequalities Taskforce going to improve education attainment?

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  1. Increase participation (14-19)
    - 7.4% of 14-19 yr olds=NEETS
  2. Promote more work exp. and local partnerships: entrepreneurial curriculum
  3. Careers week in Primary schools - build good practice
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How can Camden Inequalities Taskforce improve employment?

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• female employment (25-44yrs) has increased by 45% since 2005

  • increase side funding for childcare in long term
  • develop target package of employment to increase maternal employment
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Give 2 strategies to reducing housing inequalities in Camden:

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  • high social housing
  • community/shared ownership of housing
  • lower rents
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What does the Camden inequalities Taskforce not directly addressed?

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  • the needs of the disabled

* health related issues (although good health = decent homes = gain qualifications/jobs

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What features characterise deprivation?

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- tends to be multi-faces and interlinked:
• Low income/employment levels
• poor access to services
• leads to social marginalisation
- no silver bullet solution
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Why does rural deprivation exist?

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  • gov.s/policies (SSSI) prevent development e.g housing, transport
  • urban deprivation is more visible and concentrated than rural deprivation so easier to tackle
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What is the difference between the price of a detached house in Camden and E.Sussex?

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x56!!!

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What is a hidden problem?

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An issue that is not required to be looked at by the government as it can’t be measured so no evidence

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Example of hidden problems in rural areas:

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  • elderly - no access to healthcare
  • the homeless
  • lack of broadband (wifi) or mobile phone access(3G)
  • people without a mode of transport/car
  • those lacking appropriate skills/education
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20
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By how much/week are rural families more worse off than urban?

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£46 - £76

21
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Way do Market forces struggle struggle in Rural areas?

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  • lower levels of demand = higher costs of delivery = market failure
  • companies not interested in investing
  • economies of scale disappear
  • distance decay
  • centralised located services-financial cost=user
22
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What does distance decay mean?

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The further away you live the less likely you are to try and get it

23
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Describe the elderly population in East Sussex:

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2nd highest proportion of over 85s in the country

24
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Give 2 examples of rurally deprived towns in E.Sussex:

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  1. Ouse Valley

2. Camber

25
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What can you not the IMD?

A
  • how a population became deprived
  • what problems they face (hidden problems)
  • how many are affected
26
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Illustrate difference in education between rich and poor in rural areas:

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Children from poor homes are nearly a year behind, before they start and school and are 2 years behind by age 14

27
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Solutions to deal with education gap:

A
  • Gov. Focuses on quality of teaching
  • Targets schools in socio-economic disadvantage based on IMD
  • Hackney ~£8500 per student/ Camden ~£7000 per student
28
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Explain why farmers have such a high suicide rate:

A
  • low farming incomes (paid between £8000-£12,600/year=NOTHING)
  • strain of severe flooding
  • (foot and mouth) disease
  • strained relationships
  • poor health
29
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Solutions to UK upland farmers:

A
  1. Diversification - grow other crops
  2. Intensification = machinery
  3. Farm diversification: (paint balling centres/music festivals/horse trekking/B&Bs/ Deer hunting)
30
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Quantify the digital divide in Britain:

A
  • 1 in 4 adults have never used the Internet : 50% without Internet are the lowest socioeconomic groups in UK
  • £560 amount digital excluded households miss out on for not shopping on line.
31
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Who are disadvantaged by not having access to Internet?

A
  • Disabled
  • Old
  • Unemployed
  • Homeless
32
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What are the problems with rural transport?

A
  • unreliable/inadequate
  • expensive
  • rare
  • forces car ownership - environment is polluted
  • fuel prices are discriminatory
33
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Solutions to rural transport inequalities:

A

•Llandiloes - N.Whales:
Community has a car club (shared) - 33 people 4 cars (saved £2000 each)

• Dial-a-bus (sustainable visitor transport)

34
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What is Gordon Brown’s quote for Managing urban inequalities:

A

“Equality of opportunity and fairness of outcome”

35
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What did oxfam report about the share of the 1%ers?

A

Just 85 people owned as much as the poorest half of humanity. Gone down to 66!!

36
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What is the income of top 1% households per week:

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£3000

37
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How many bankers in the UK were paid over a million(€1,000,000) in 2012?

A

2714

38
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Name atleast 3 management strategies to dealing with urban inequalities:

A
  1. Congestion Charge
  2. Oyster cards
  3. Urban Regeneration project (urban splash)
  4. “Pub in a Hub”
  5. CCTV
39
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How many CCTV cameras are the in the UK?

A

4.2 million

40
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How did ‘pub in a hub’ come about?

A

• local Partnership solution:

- ERIC PICKLES (stakeholder) announced £150,000 to boost great British Pubs

41
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How has the congestion charge affect UK Transport?

A
  • journey times reduced by 14%

* CO2 levels have fallen 20%

42
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What is the average distance from a shop in East Sussex?

A

7km

43
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What %age of E.Sussex have long term illnesses?

A

20%

44
Q

Illustrate the life expectancy difference in East Sussex:

A

Men in Brighton and Hove (affluent) will live ~10 years longer than those in most deprived areas.

45
Q

Give an example of a district with over 30% of the population being over 65 Yrs old:

A

Rother and Arun

46
Q

Which town has the lowest wages in the whole of the UK?

A

Cornwall

47
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What type of distribution illustrated the amount of wealth the wealth have over the rest of the UK?

A

Champagne-glass distribution

48
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What is the opposite view “equality of opportunity and opportunity of outcome?

A

Equality of outcome

49
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Give 2 examples of the most deprived areas in Camden:

A

ST. PANCRAS/SOMERS TOWN
• claimant rate of income support=5.1
HOLBORN
•crime rate = ~400/1000

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