Sentences with phrase «most deprived»

That's critical, considering that Shafer's volunteer work takes her into some of the grimmest, most deprived neighborhoods.

Similar patterns were also seen in relation to area deprivation although the differences between those in the least and most deprived groups were not as large as in relation to household income (68 % compared with 54 % respectively).

For example, observation data was collected for 85 % of children in the most deprived areas compared with 72 % of those in the least deprived areas.

The likelihood of separation is also higher among families living in rented accommodation, workless families, those living on a low income or in most deprived areas as well as among large families.

We found that the greatest increase in violence was seen between 15 and 24 years of age, particularly in the most deprived communities.

There are programmes that can help support parents, infants and young children during the critical early years such as Nurse Family Partnership49, 50 and Triple P Positive Parenting Programme.51 These programmes, where found to be effective, have been associated with cost - savings.50 — 53 Importantly, such programmes require targeted application in the most deprived areas, and this should be a priority for those involved in violence prevention.

Its analysis of resilience among children in the most deprived groups suggested that some aspects of parenting (related to home learning environment) were important for avoiding negative outcomes in these groups.

The difference between children in the least and most deprived areas was the most extreme in relation to conduct problems (23 % versus 41 % had borderline or abnormal scores for this), hyperactivity (13 % versus 27 %), and total difficulties (7 % versus 20 %).

Communities First, 27 a Welsh Government programme introduced throughout Wales in 2001, increased investment in the most deprived areas with the aim to tackle poverty by narrowing the economic, education and skills, and health gaps between the most and least deprived communities.

More concerning is the fact that the prevalence of this almost doubles between the least and most deprived areas.

In the United Kingdom, IMD incidence and mortality are socially patterned, with IMD incidence in the most deprived quintile being twice that of the most affluent quintile.10 In New Zealand, significantly higher rates of IMD have been reported in Maori (relative risk = 2.2) and Pacific Islander people (relative risk = 3.8) when compared with the European population.11 Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged group in Australia.12 Two important risk factors associated with increased risk of IMD are more common among Aboriginal people, namely having a smoker among close contacts, including maternal smoking, and sharing a bedroom.13 — 15 It is not possible to explore the causal interaction of these factors from notifiable disease data.

And the UK Royal College of General Practitioners has released research showing that people living in the most deprived communities face the longest waiting times for care.

The best compensation governments can offer to Aborigines is effectiveness in helping them to overcome the shameful disadvantages in health, education, housing and employment that make their communities the most deprived in the nation.

There are children on CPPs or in out - of - home care from neighbourhoods across all levels of deprivation from the most affluent to the most deprived but each step increase in deprivation brings an increased rate of these extreme children's services interventions.

For example, in the most deprived 10 % of neighbourhoods nationally, the LAC rate in relatively affluent Herefordshire is 4.75 times greater than the LAC rate in much more disadvantaged Sandwell.

As a solicitors» firm operating in one of the most deprived areas of the country, the impact of the legal aid cuts is startlingly obvious to us.

This will dramatically reduce access to justice for the most deprived members of society, whilst savage cuts to the criminal legal aid budget can only increase the risk of miscarriages of justice.

64 % of the same age group were from the 20 most deprived areas in the country and 3 % were from the 20 least deprived areas.

A recent report by the Health & Social Care Information Centre states that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be obese or overweight: «In 2014 - 15, obesity prevalence for children living in the most deprived areas was double that of those living in the least deprived areas.»

They will simply impose totally unnecessary and substantial burdens on the world's taxpayers and horrendously impact the economic well - being of many of the world's most deprived communities.

This great abdication has made Middlesbrough one of the most deprived places in the country, variously described as part of «Britain's rust belt» (The Economist) or one of the UK's «least resilient» locations (credit reference agency Experian).

As recently as 2015, a survey by the City Council found that over half the population lived in the most deprived areas of the country.

Literally, every street is home to feral and stray cats in the most deprived areas of East London.

The proportion considering leaving was 17 % in the most deprived schools compared to 19 % in the least, and there was no statistical difference in desire to leave across the five different levels of deprivation.

The report warned that schools serving the most deprived pupils were disproportionately likely to be underperforming.

Recent research by the University of Cambridge found that teachers working in the most deprived schools are more likely to be inexperienced.

Skegness Grammar School is in one of the most deprived coastal towns.

Primaries will gain in cash terms (an increase of 0.4 per cent) but secondaries with the most deprived intakes will lose (a decrease of about 0.3 per cent).

In addition, we'll recruit a network of advocates to develop strong relationships with schools across the North East, especially those in the most deprived areas, to support them to use the latest evidence to ensure high quality literacy teaching and learning for their pupils.

Even if they open in the most deprived parts of England, it will be difficult to establish catchment areas which do not include wealthier suburbs, especially as some of the poorest areas of the country exist within larger cities and metropolitan regions where deprivation can vary greatly between postcodes.

We believe that new free schools will particularly benefit the most deprived and actively work to encourage applications from groups in areas with poor educational performance.

The Mars Diary and its teaching resources were made possible by the generous support of the UK Space Agency, who also provided 20,000 copies of the Mars Diary book to students in the UK's most deprived areas — completely free of charge!

Dixons Trinity, which opened in 2012, draws its pupils from one of the most deprived parts of Bradford, a town yet to regain the prosperity it enjoyed in its industrial heyday.

Free schools, which are three times more likely to be located in the most deprived areas of the country than the least deprived, today showed the impact they are having with free school students achieving attainment and progress 8 scores second only to converter academies.

76 % of open mainstream free schools up to September 2016 are located in areas where there was a need for more school places, and almost half are in the 30 % most deprived communities in the country.

Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said government grants for the most deprived pupils had helped narrow the gap in performance between poorer pupils and their peers.

Holyport will be England's first boarding Free School and aims to offer a traditional education to children from a variety of backgrounds, particularly the most deprived.

«The smoke has now cleared and it is evident that the losers will be some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children and the schools in some of England's most deprived areas.»

How does that help the most deprived?

The Department for Education says that 84 % of approved free schools are in «areas most in need of more school places» and that half will in the most deprived parts of the country.

Proposals in the green paper for grammar schools to admit more pupils from low - income families will suck out cash from comprehensives that would help the most deprived children,...

The early years are crucial to providing that foundation on which world - class leadership and excellent teaching can be built — hence the need to restore a semblance of what was the original Sure Start local programmes, particularly in the most deprived parts of the country.

The New Schools Network says it aims to «improve the quality of education - particularly for the most deprived - by increasing the number of independent, innovative schools within the state sector».

Teachers in schools in the most deprived areas work on average 3.6 hours less per week than teachers in schools based in the most affluent areas, the report found.

A council will review its use of an infant school in one of the country's most deprived areas as a polling station after governors complained vulnerable pupils were losing a «precious day of learning».

The findings reflect previous analysis by Schools Week, which two years ago found that only two of the 563 teaching schools open in 2015 were located in areas serving the 25 per cent of most deprived populations.

They serve some of the most deprived and culturally diverse wards in the city and all have a strong focus on pupils» mental health.

Inspiration Trust director of education Christine Counsell said: «This partnership will tackle chronic low attainment in reading for children in some of the most deprived areas of Norfolk and Suffolk.

«At the moment a child living in one of the most deprived areas of the UK is a year behind a child from the richest areas in terms of vocabulary development.

The statement also said that Catholic schools educate more children from the most deprived areas with 20 % of pupils at Catholic secondary schools living in the most deprived areas compared with 17 % nationally.