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HOW FAIR IS WALES?

HOW FAIR IS WALES?. Victoria Winckler The Bevan Foundation . What it’s about . How Fair is Britain? - Triennial Review for GB - comprehensive - evidence-based - huge How Fair is Wales? - Welsh context - parallels GB but not the same - not huge!. What we did .

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HOW FAIR IS WALES?

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  1. HOW FAIR IS WALES? Victoria Winckler The Bevan Foundation

  2. What it’s about • How Fair is Britain?- Triennial Review for GB- comprehensive- evidence-based- huge • How Fair is Wales? - Welsh context- parallels GB but not the same- not huge!

  3. What we did • Approach based on Equalities Measurement Framework • Eight different areas e.g. employment, physical security, health • Forty different indicators and even more measures • Welsh data not available for all

  4. Major challenges • The most significant challenges based on:- numbers affected- severity of effect • NOT the only challenges • Some familiar, some surprising • May be different in your area

  5. The challenges 5

  6. Life and health • Stark differences in health and life prospects • Gender and socio-economic group combine

  7. Life and health • Challenge of reducing health inequalities • Especially older men • Also younger men

  8. Education and Skills “Our goal is to stress di-versity while remaining a uni-versity”

  9. Education and Skills • Sharp divide by socio-economic group • Inequalities by gender, ethnic group and disability • Challenge to close the attainment gap for boys, black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani pupils and disabled children • Challenge of young people who are NEET

  10. Employment • Employment rate low in Wales - but not for everyone • Challenge to increase employment rates, especially among disabled and older people

  11. Employment • Marked inequalities in pay, especially by gender, ethnicity and disability • Challenge to close pay gaps.

  12. Legal and Physical Security

  13. Legal and Physical Security • Limited evidence Challenge to: • reduce the incidence of domestic and sexual violence • Reduce the incidence of bullying and hate crime

  14. Power and voice • Limited evidence Challenge to: • Increase participation of ‘protected groups’ • Makes Wales’s public, private and third sector organisations representative

  15. A new approach? • Socio-economic inequality dominates • BUT interwoven with other inequalities • Efforts to reduce socio-economic inequalities to take account of ‘protected characteristics’ • Efforts to reduce other inequality must take account of socio-economic inequality.

  16. Conclusions • Wales has changed greatly in 30 years • Huge pressures ahead:- reform of public services- globalisation of economy- demographic shifts • Changing political and legal context

  17. Equality - of all kinds - must be centre of the agenda • Not a disadvantage league table • Mainstreaming of ALL aspects • Read the reports!

  18. Thank you The Bevan Foundation Innovation Centre Festival Drive Ebbw Vale Blaenau Gwent NP23 8XA www.bevanfoundation.org info@bevanfoundation

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