Growing inequality in modern Britain and its impact on Britain's

impoverished communities

(Danny Dorling, Sheffield University)……… ...

Fairness Commission28th March 2012

National polarisation

Regionally the number of people near every person has been falling around Glasgow, in the North West and North East of England (purple) and growing massively in the South East (shades of green).

Local polarisation

sharpens

Some evidence of absolute rises in health inequalities prior to 2005

For every age group there is data

Sheffield: Road traffic casualties 2005–2007:

children aged 0–10

Brightside 69 Attercliffe 67 Central 54 Heeley 42 Hillsborough 30Hallam 11

In a city like Sheffield the

16+ yearlife expectancy

gap is sustained by

continual differential migration

These are not ‘long

established’ divides in

terms of their magnitude

Divides have been reduced before

Last week’s tax cuts gave each person earning

£1 million a year over £40,000 extra a year. Three dozen millionaires were given

around £1.5 million (or just

one person ‘earning’ £36m).

Within Sheffield from April 6th 20124630 children lose up to £1.5million

Constituency Number of Households

Number of children in those households

Penistone and Stocksbridge 170 280Sheffield Central 325 715

Sheffield South East 550 1255

Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough 720 1750

Sheffield, Hallam Too few to be reported

Sheffield, Heeley 355 630

Number of couples with children and children benefiting from Working Family Tax Credit and who are working between 16 and 24 hours as of December 2011Who will lose up to £728pa in WFTC from April unless they can increase their working hours to 24+ per week. 

Other well-off constituencies

£22.8 million lost to 84,000 children every year in these places - contrast

However, A 50% stake in Meadowhall shopping centre sold for £588m in 1989

http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/story.cgi?story_id=2598543

Question: How much profitA year has to be extracted to justify a value of £1.17bn?Answer, a lot more than £22.8m

In more equitable countriesthe felt need to

consume is less so less is wasted

and thrown away

In some affluent

countries the top 1% have never had

less than they have todayAnd the

trains still run on time. And they still have bankers and

industry.

It’s remarkable how hard organisations

find it to think what they should do

about inequality

The plug

http://www.newint.org/books/no-nonsense-

guides/equality/

The End.

Thank you