Inequalities data

Cornwall

For a useful summary see the Introduction to Kernow Matters 2009 from page 9 onwards. This puts Cornwall's children and young people in context, giving data and analysis by gender, ethnicity and those with English as an additional language. There is also a discussion of how Cornwall scored within national rankings on the Child Wellbeing Index 2009.

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.