Inequalities data
Cornwall
For a useful summary, see the introduction to Kernow Matters. Go to Kernow Matters and click on "Cornwall in context". There is also a thorough and comprehensive economic analysis at Understanding Cornwall 2011.
Child poverty in Cornwall
Cornwall Council's research team has carried out a child poverty needs assessment. As part of this work, Cornwall Council published Maps showing children under 16 living in poverty.
Map allowing comparison
Results from the Tellus4 survey have been mapped allowing comparisons to be drawn, download National Indicator 110: Young people's participation in positive activities. (What children and young people do - or don't do - out of school is important because such activities have a significant bearing on outcomes in later life. "Positive activities" are activities that provide opportunities to: acquire and practice specific social, physical, emotional and intellectual skills; contribute to the community; belong to a socially recognised group; establish supportive social networks of peers and adults; experience and deal with challenges; and enjoy themselves.)
Nationally
The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science set up the National Equality Panel at the request of the equality minister, Harriet Harman MP. The Panel was asked to investigate the relationships between the distributions of various kinds of economic outcome on the one hand and people's characteristics and circumstances on the other. The report is comprehensive and systematic. One of its findings is that, for children, the parents' type of job and pay can have a cumulative effect, setting the children on "tracks that make all sorts of differences". Download the summary report, An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK, or go to the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion's website to read more about the research and download the full report.
The Marmot review
In February 2010, the Marmot Review Team published Fair society, healthy lives. This was the culmination of a year-long independent review into health inequalities in England chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot at the request of the Secretary of State for Health. The review proposes the most effective evidence-based strategies for reducing health inequalities in England from 2010. Read the executive summary or go to the Marmot review website.
Telling it like it is
Save the Children did some work for the BBC documentary Poor Kids (which in itself was a follow-up to the 1999 film Eyes of a Child). In the report, children and young people speak about their experiences of living in poverty in the UK today, read Telling it like it is.
