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Donegal County Councils ‘Experience of Developing a Poverty Profile’. 15 th /16 th May 2006 By Ms Valerie Bryce Community Development Worker Community Culture and Enterprise. Outline of Presentation. Background What is a Local Anti Poverty Profile? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Donegal County Councils
‘Experience of Developing a Poverty Profile’
15th /16th May 2006By
Ms Valerie BryceCommunity Development Worker Community Culture and Enterprise
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Outline of Presentation
1. Background
2. What is a Local Anti Poverty Profile?
3. The Process to Building up a Poverty Profile in County
Donegal
4. Steps involved in carrying out a Poverty Profile
5. Poverty in County Donegal
6. Difficulties and Challenges
7. Uses and Applications
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1. Background
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Date Event
1990 Celtic Tiger. Increase in living standards. Proportion of the population in consistent poverty fell from 15.1% to 8.2%
1997 The Government used this as an opportunity to create a more inclusive society in Ireland and this was reflected with the establishment of a National Anti Poverty Strategy
2000 County or City Development Boards were established in each Authority Area – allowing each local authority to work with others to address poverty, social exclusion and disadvantage
2002 ‘Building an Inclusive Society’ – Review of NAPs
2003 CPA invites local authorities to make submissions for the preparation of a Local Anti Poverty Strategy
2003 Donegal, Cork and West Meath applications to Develop a Local Anti Poverty Strategy were successful
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What is Poverty?
‘People are living in poverty, if their income and resources
(material, cultural and social) are so inadequate as to preclude
them from having a standard of living, which is regarded as
acceptable by Irish Society generally. As a result of
inadequate income and resources people may be excluded
and marginalised from participating in activities, which are
considered the norm for other people in society’
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2. What is a Local Anti Poverty Profile?
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2. What is a Local Anti Poverty Profile?
A Local Poverty Profile involves systematically identifying gathering
and mapping information on social and economic need in your
area, it should clearly identify the areas and communities that
experience the highest levels of disadvantage and the nature of
that disadvantage.
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3. The Process
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The Process
Cross Directorate Internal Working Group established
in Donegal County Council
CPA Consultant assigned to work with DCC on the
development of all stages of the Local Anti Poverty
Strategy including the development of the Local Poverty
Profile
Research undertaken by Research and Policy Unit in
Donegal County Council - but under taken by Social
Inclusion Units in both West Meath and Cork County
Councils
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The Process
Learning from Experience of other local authorities
that had compiled poverty profiles
Indicators identified by
CPA - National Poverty Indicators
Internal Cross Directorate Working Group
Research and Policy Unit
Data Gathered and Analysed by Research and Policy
Drafts presented to Internal Cross Directorate Working Group,
who made the final sign off
Copies of final draft sent to SIM and CDB for Information
Purposes
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4. Steps in Developing a Local Poverty Profile
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3. Steps in developing a Local Poverty Profile
I. Selection of Themes
II. Selection of Indicators
III. Data Identification & Collection
IV. Basic Data Analysis
V. Mapping (using GIS)
VI. Presentation & Review
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I. Selection of Themes
Themes
– Poverty and people
– Welfare Dependency and Employment
– Housing
– Health and Poverty
– Educational Disadvantage
– Quality of Life
– Physical Environment
– Infrastructure and Accessibility
– Local Specific Aspects
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II. Selection of Indicators
Source
– Indicators identified under the 7 themes of NAPs
– Indicators and data relating to poverty and social exclusion
collected from national and international publications like
the CSO, DSCFA, International Labour Office etc.
– Indicators held by the different Local Authority Directorates
on housing, roads, cultural services etc
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III. Identifying and Gathering Data
Finding the most appropriate data is one of the key tasks in building
up a
Local Poverty Profile this was done:
• Though Desk Research by the Research and Policy Unit under
the direction of the Strategic Policy Manager to identify relevant
local, national and international publications and datasets
• In the Internal Cross Directorate Working Group to identify
appropriate indicators
• Through Consultations with each Directorate of Donegal County
Council to identify data or datasets held within each directorate
of the council
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IV Data Analysis
Headline indicators were presented to
– Determine the extent of poverty within County Donegal across
a number of thematic areas
– Allow for relative poverty comparisons between the Headline
Poverty Indicators in County Donegal and State
– Determine the extent of deprivation across the 149 different
Electoral Divisions (149) within County Donegal (I.e. by
mapping the Trutz Haase Deprivation Index)
– Examine poverty over a time series ie 1991 – 1996 and 1996 –
2002 in an effort to determine if the situation is deteriorating
of improving
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5. Poverty in County Donegal
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I. A comparion of deprivation scores between the State, Border, County and SubCounty Level
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A Comparsion of Relative Affluence/Deprivation
Scores 2002
2002
Donegal - 9.6
Donegal Central -5.4
IOWEN -12.0
Donegal Gaeltacht -16.6
Borders -4.8
BMW -2.2
S & E 3.7
National 2.2
Source: GAMMA, 2002
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I. Deprivation Scores at sub county level
21Note: Relative deprivation in County Donegal in 2002 was –9.6 while in the State it was +2.2
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II. A comparsion of headline indicators between County Donegal and the State
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Indicator Year Donegal State
Population Size 2002 137,575 3,917,203
Population Density (per sq km) 2002 28 56
Age Dependency 2002 36% 32%
No of persons in receipt of UB April 2003
4,191 79,868
No of persons in receipt of UA April 2003
5,119 79,530
GMS Entitlement 2001/02 65,869 1,200,000
% of persons whose full time education has ceased with no formal education qualifications
2002 32% 21%
Disposable income per person 2001 €13,347 €15,523
No of Traveller Families 2002 175 families
23,681 ( persons)
No of older persons 65+ living alone
2002 4,812 113,826
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III. A comparsion of poverty levels across counties in Ireland
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IV. Lower Social Classes in County Donegal vis-à-vis the State 1986, 1991,1996, 2002
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The percentage of the population falling into Social Class 5 (Semi Skilled) & Social
Class 6(Unskilled)
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5
10
15
20
25
30
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1986 1991 1996 2002
%StateDonegal
Source: CSO, 2002
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6. Difficulties and Challenges
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Lack of a dedicated Social Inclusion Unit in County Donegal Unlike Cork and Westmeath Local Authorities Donegal was capturing data for the first time and not building on the work already done
Difficulties in Dis-aggregation of Statistical Information to County Level In some cases the only available data is at national or regional level for example Health Board Data
Timeliness of Data There was a reliance on the 1996 or 2002 data, which was only coming on stream when the profile was being developed
6. Difficulties and Challenges
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Lack of information in some areas on specific circumstances of target groups Early school leavers Literacy Levels
Inability to attain specific indicators – the number of older people without access to a
telephone– The number of lone parents or older people who rely
solely on state benefits for their income
No Primary ResearchIt was not within the scope of the poverty profiles to undertake additional primary research to gather information. Therefore, the poverty profiles are based soely on secondary sources and from existing statistical resources of agencies currently working within the field
6. Difficulties and Challenges
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7. Uses and Applications
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Uses of a Profile
Identify key priority or focus areas for the
Development of the Local Anti Poverty Strategy
Raising Awareness on Poverty Issues across Local
Authority Directorates
Local Authority Service Planning -By identifying
target groups where an integrated service approach is
required towards tackling poverty and social exclusion
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Uses of a Profile
Economic Taskforces - by identifying gaps in socio
economic infrastructure and highlighting the
requirements for investments to fill those gaps
External Dissemination – to ensure that appropriate
national, regional, local funding and resources can be
targeted to areas of greatest need
By Area Partnerships in service planning ie DLDC,
IRDL, MFG
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Uses of a Profile
By Letterkenny Institute & other institutes to
develop and devise educational initiatives to address
gaps in service delivery
Establishing a baseline against which the progress
made in alleviating poverty in the county & can be
monitored on an ongoing basis
Used by SIM to identify a target group action plan
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Outline of Presentation
1. What is a Local Anti Poverty Profile?
2. Steps involved
3. The Process to Building up a Poverty Profile
4. Poverty in County Donegal
5. Difficulties and Challenges
6. Uses and Applications