Thanks - as always Radstats comes up with good discussion and information. I am prompted to do what I have done in the past for North Eastern authorities and examine inequality within local authority areas by computing Ginis for super output areas. These can be very high - for example in Newcastle which is a city of great contrasts.
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David Byrne
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While the boroughs in question have seen big increases in population, they've also seen big increases in the employment rate of the resident population - including in groups usually considered at high risk of deprivation (such as ethnic minority women).
So some of the improvement is likely to be real.
However, as one of the authors of a report quoted in the article (projecting Work Programme performance from 2011 on the basis of prior London Development Agency programmes - apols if the given link doesn't work due to our website redesign), this reads rather like a Newham press release rather than anything else.
The usual practice among local council comparisons to the Work Programme is to only count those most likely to get a job and then compare job starts to six-month employment outcomes. The range of differences among programmes is rather small, with most of the changes being due to overall economic trends rather than programmes (not excluding the possibility that programmes can stop people getting jobs).
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