Enquiry Q4

• Migration can reduce tensions between native and incoming populations
• Improving access to and quality of housing can enhance the quality of life
• Raising life expectancy can impact population structure
• Index of multiple deprivation includes levels of poverty, educational attainment, and socioeconomic attainment
• Social progress index factors:

  • Health and life expectancy, including physical and mental health
  • Access, such as personal mobility, transport, and pedestrian areas
  • Education, with a focus on young people being optimistic about their future
  • Inequality, reflecting differences in lived experiences
• Challenges in measuring ethnic mix, family size, age structure, and migration balance due to intangible and non-quantifiable issues
• Measures for assessing assimilation include:

  • Demographic aspects like mapping changing residential distributions
  • Economic factors such as pay equality
  • Political engagement in the political process
  • Social indicators like hate crimes and expressions of racism
• Political engagement is crucial for societal functioning and can be determined by voter turnout, with disparities among different demographic groups
• Pay discrepancies exist by ethnicity, particularly low among Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups
• Stakeholders in Slough include Slough Borough Council and Aik Saath, a community group focusing on young people
• Issues faced by Slough:

  • Potential spread of racist crimes
  • Unemployment rates higher in Slough compared to the national average
  • Lower percentage of people in professional jobs
  • Integration challenges for ethnic groups
  • Levels of hate crimes
  • Pressure on local services
• Factors encouraging immigration waves to Slough:

  • Proximity to Heathrow Airport
  • Established migrant communities
  • Affordable housing compared to London with good employment opportunities
• Key strategies for Slough's success:

  • Regeneration of brownfield sites for housing, including affordable options
  • Slough Regeneration Partnership between the council
  • Improving cohesion among ethnic groups through charities
• Evidence of Slough's success in managing immigration:

  • Positive perceptions from various ethnic groups about their experiences in Slough
  • Low levels of racial tensions
• Challenges still present in Slough:

  • Pressure on local housing leading to illegal housing practices like "sheds with beds"
  • Strain on local services like schools
  • Tensions escalating with new waves of migrants
• Type of employment factors:

  • Skill level
  • Percentage of full-time or part-time workers
  • Average income of migrants
  • Relative and absolute changes
• Economic indicators include:

  • Percentage on social benefits
  • Dwelling tenure, such as mortgages or house ownership
  • Percentage on minimum wage
• Issues facing Cornwall:

  • Ageing population
  • Second homeowners increasing house prices
  • Low average earnings (£15.49)
  • High retirement rate
• Strategies in Cornwall:

  • Implementation of super-fast broadband
  • Introduction of more STEM pathways for students
• Evidence that strategies have worked:

  • Increase in productivity
  • 56% of the population are economically active
  • Increase in people with qualifications
• Evidence that problems still exist:

  • Deprivation
  • Wages
  • Not providing jobs to those in need