5.3 a) RBKC Case Study

Question 1

What is housing like around Grenfell tower (northern, more deprived area)?

Answer 1

• The main drivers of in-work poverty within the brough is high housing prices.
• Kensington and Chelsea is the brough with the second least affordable housing market in the capital, median rent represent more than two thirds of median income.
• 25% live in social housing

Question 2

What is health like around grenfell tower area?

Answer 2

• There is a large difference in life expectancy between different parts of Kengsinton and Chelsea- the differences in some areas is 15 years for women and 17 years for men between areas less than two miles apart. Life expectancy decreases in poorer areas.
  
  • UK prosperity index- mental health is in the worst 20% of loca authorities.
  • Access to GP’s and healthcare for communities has been limited- technological and language barriers.
  • Council estate block= 65% health deprivation

Question 3

What is housing like near Kings road (more affluent)?

Answer 3

• Within the rest of London and the more southern area of RKBC, housing is less attached and larger to provide more space for those with higher disposable income. They are usually not council owned and many people who live around this area have houses as a second home.
  
  • The main drivers of in-work poverty within the brough is high housing prices.
  • Kensington and Chelsea is the brough with the second least affordable housing market in the capital, median rent represent more than two thirds of median income.

Question 4

What is health like near kings road?

Answer 4

• UK prosperity index- kensington and chelsea is the 4th best local authority in the UK for physical health.
  Is among the authorities which have the highest life expectancy at birth in the UK (83.9 years for males and 87 years for females

Question 5

What is wealth like near kings road?

Answer 5

• 1 in 4 children in kend=signton and chelsea lived in poverty in 2020.
  
  • 69.5% of median income is spent on median rent for a one bedroom property in kengsington and cheslea.
  • 45.1% of median income spent on median rent for a one bedroom property in the rest of london.
    UK prosperity index- has an economy ranking among the top 10% of UK local authorities
    More than 1 in 5 (23%) in kengsinton and chelsea neighbourhoods are among the 20% most income deprived in england and wales.

Question 6

What is education like near kings road?

Answer 6

• Education inequalities among ethnic groups are larger in Kensington and Chelsea than in london and england- -5.9% for black children in kengsington and chelsea compared to -3.8% in london.
  
  • Kengsington and chelsea has the highest permanent school exclusion rate in london
  • Exclusions for black and mixed ethnic students are twice as high as their white or asian peers.
    For children with special education needs they are three times as high as those without.

Question 7

What is access to service like near kings road?

Answer 7

• Many children struggled to access education during covid.
  
  • In the past few years they have cut down spending for RBKC- children and elderly clubs have been shut down.
  • Is unequal spending divisions from the council

Question 8

What is health like near kings road?

Answer 8

• There is a large difference in life expectancy between different parts of Kengsinton and Chelsea- the differences in some areas is 15 years for women and 17 years for men between areas less than two miles apart. Life expectancy decreases in poorer areas.
  
  • UK prosperity index- mental health is in the worst 20% of loca authorities.
  • Access to GP’s and healthcare for communities has been limited- technological and language barriers.
• UK prosperity index- kensington and chelsea is the 4th best local authority in the UK for physical health.
  Is among the authorities which have the highest life expectancy at birth in the UK (83.9 years for males and 87 years for females)