Post by bawheid on Jul 23, 2004 14:31:23 GMT -2
The following articleis from the London Times
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Glasgow areas are a 'swamp of poverty'
By A Scotland Correspondent
SEVENTEEN of Scotland’s 20 poorest areas are in the same city, an official poverty league table revealed yesterday.
Glasgow is also home to the top ten most deprived parts of the country, the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 found.
Outside the city only three areas, two parts of Ferguslie Park in Paisley, and Craigmillar North in Edinburgh, were in the list of the poorest 20.
The annual survey, which measures deprivation by health, housing, income, joblessness and education, dividing the country into 6,505 zones, also found that just over half of Glasgow’s population lived in the 15 per cent most deprived areas of Scotland.
In last year’s survey, 16 of the poorest areas in Scotland were found in Glasgow.
The Executive said that the survey showed that it was winning the fight against deprivation, but Tommy Sheridan, the Scottish Socialist leader, said: “New Labour continues to fail Glasgow and its low income citizens by presiding over a regime of low wages and high council tax, which keeps hundreds of thousands in the swamp of poverty.
“But even though we have we made real progress, for example taking 210,000 children out of poverty since 1997, there is no room for complacency.
As the report revealed that Scotland’s poorest area was in the Glasgow Baillieston constituency of the Communities Minister, the SNP went on the attack. Shona Robison, her shadow, said: “There are still far too many people living in poverty in Scotland.
“I think it’s incredible the minister whose responsibility it is to eradicate poverty has failed to address the problem not just across Scotland, but in her own constituency, where she must see day in, day out, the deprivation people are living in.”
The Child Poverty Action Group said that the report highlighted “how poverty is dealing blows on vulnerable families and children”.
John Dickie, the group’s head in Scotland, said: “We really must see more urgency from the Executive in removing the blight of poverty from 21st-century Scotland.”
He said it could do more to increase the disposable incomes of the poorest families by, for example, extending free school meal entitlement, axing prescription charges and extending free childcare.
He added: “But its not just income deprivation that the Executive must do more to tackle. The new index shows the extent of housing, health and educational deprivation across Scotland — all areas over which the Executive is responsible.”
Losers and winners
The 10 most deprived wards in Scotland, all in Glasgow, are:
1 Barlanark
2 Ruchill
3 Possilpark
4 Garthamlock
5 Keppochhill
6 Cranhill
7 Shettleston
8 Parkhead
9 Laurieston
10 Ruchazie
The 10 least deprived wards in Scotland are:
1 Giffnock North, East Renfrewshire
2 Chapeltown, East Dunbartonshire
3 Midstocket, Aberdeen
4 Queens Cross, Aberdeen
5 South Morningside (Comiston Road /Greenbank Drive) in Edinburgh
6 South Morningside (Braid Road/Braid Crescent) in Edinburgh
7 Craigleith, Edinburgh
8 Westhill, Aberdeenshire
9 Netherlee, East Renfrewshire
10 Craiglockhart, Edinburgh
QUOTE
Glasgow areas are a 'swamp of poverty'
By A Scotland Correspondent
SEVENTEEN of Scotland’s 20 poorest areas are in the same city, an official poverty league table revealed yesterday.
Glasgow is also home to the top ten most deprived parts of the country, the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 found.
Outside the city only three areas, two parts of Ferguslie Park in Paisley, and Craigmillar North in Edinburgh, were in the list of the poorest 20.
The annual survey, which measures deprivation by health, housing, income, joblessness and education, dividing the country into 6,505 zones, also found that just over half of Glasgow’s population lived in the 15 per cent most deprived areas of Scotland.
In last year’s survey, 16 of the poorest areas in Scotland were found in Glasgow.
The Executive said that the survey showed that it was winning the fight against deprivation, but Tommy Sheridan, the Scottish Socialist leader, said: “New Labour continues to fail Glasgow and its low income citizens by presiding over a regime of low wages and high council tax, which keeps hundreds of thousands in the swamp of poverty.
“But even though we have we made real progress, for example taking 210,000 children out of poverty since 1997, there is no room for complacency.
As the report revealed that Scotland’s poorest area was in the Glasgow Baillieston constituency of the Communities Minister, the SNP went on the attack. Shona Robison, her shadow, said: “There are still far too many people living in poverty in Scotland.
“I think it’s incredible the minister whose responsibility it is to eradicate poverty has failed to address the problem not just across Scotland, but in her own constituency, where she must see day in, day out, the deprivation people are living in.”
The Child Poverty Action Group said that the report highlighted “how poverty is dealing blows on vulnerable families and children”.
John Dickie, the group’s head in Scotland, said: “We really must see more urgency from the Executive in removing the blight of poverty from 21st-century Scotland.”
He said it could do more to increase the disposable incomes of the poorest families by, for example, extending free school meal entitlement, axing prescription charges and extending free childcare.
He added: “But its not just income deprivation that the Executive must do more to tackle. The new index shows the extent of housing, health and educational deprivation across Scotland — all areas over which the Executive is responsible.”
Losers and winners
The 10 most deprived wards in Scotland, all in Glasgow, are:
1 Barlanark
2 Ruchill
3 Possilpark
4 Garthamlock
5 Keppochhill
6 Cranhill
7 Shettleston
8 Parkhead
9 Laurieston
10 Ruchazie
The 10 least deprived wards in Scotland are:
1 Giffnock North, East Renfrewshire
2 Chapeltown, East Dunbartonshire
3 Midstocket, Aberdeen
4 Queens Cross, Aberdeen
5 South Morningside (Comiston Road /Greenbank Drive) in Edinburgh
6 South Morningside (Braid Road/Braid Crescent) in Edinburgh
7 Craigleith, Edinburgh
8 Westhill, Aberdeenshire
9 Netherlee, East Renfrewshire
10 Craiglockhart, Edinburgh
