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Time, place and children’s unequal lives

Lancaster March 2019

Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income, European Union, 2008 to 2017 (Source: Eurostat)

http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do

Economic justice

• 1. no-one living in absolute poverty
• 2. everyone should be treated with dignity in their

economic life

• 3. no group in society should be systematically or

institutionally excluded from economic reward

• 4. narrowing inequalities of wealth, income and

power over time

• 5. no places should be left behind

IPPR Commission on Economic Justice (2018)

• Two million working-age adults and one million children live in poor households

in the North – this disproportionately affects women and those from an ethnic minority background

• The number of rough sleepers rose by 32 per cent in 2017 – the largest

proportional rise in the country, although numbers remain higher in the South

• Real weekly pay has fallen by £21 (3.8 per cent) in the North since 2008 – by

£41 for men and £3 for women

• 1.6 million jobs in the North are paid less than the living wage (25.9 per cent of

jobs)

• 800,000 working-age northerners are either unemployed, or inactive but want

to work

• Many women are outside of the labour market altogether - 28.0 per cent are

economically inactive, compared to 18.9 per cent of men

• Average household wealth is higher in all southern regions
• Wealth is growing more slowly in the North than the south (at half of the rate of

growth in London)

• While London has the highest wealth inequality in the UK, the North East has

the second highest IPPR North, State of the North 2018

Life expectancy at birth, English regions (source: ONS)

Percentage of children achieving a good level of development Source: Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results by pupil characteristics: 2016, DfE

Percentage of children achieving a good level of development Source: Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results by pupil characteristics: 2016, DfE

Infant mortality rate (deaths under 1 year

• ld, per 1000 live

births) Emergency hospital admissions for asthma (per 100,000 aged <19)

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