Poverty And Social Exclusion In Chipping Ongar

Introduction

In 1965 the civil parish of Chipping Ongar was abolished and incorporated with the Greensted and Marden Ash civil parishes to form the current civil parish of Ongar (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). A map on this article shows that, it borders the neighboring wards such as High Ongar, Willingale and the Rodings, Shelley, Moreton and Passingford. The Ongar ward covers an area of 620.1 hectares which is comprised of three lower super output areas (LSOAs) namely: north, south and west (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). The current statistics shows the population of Ongar ward adds to 4165. Moreover, the ethnicity of this people living in Ongar ward are whites though a small percentage of not more than 2% comprises of the mixed, Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British. In this article, Epping Forest District Council: Planning our Future, the deprivation domains stipulated includes: income deprivation, employment deprivation, health deprivation and disability, Education, skills and training, barriers to housing and services, crime and living environment deprivation. However, these domains from the ward levels are presented to the Epping Forest district for evaluation and further to the Nation statistics board office for ranking (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). These deprivation results cumulatively portray the social economic status of the population of United Kingdom.

From the document, (Office of the National Statistics, 2007) reveals that the key issues in the area that needs to be improved are public carrying, youngsters activities, intensity of travel jamming, affordable decent shelter and road and asphalt road repairs following the statistics from the questionnaires issued out in 2008. The results had a 95% (+- 2.67) confidence level following the returning of 1350 valid questionnaires which was 40.8% response rate. However, according to the Office of the National Statistics, health is social factor that can cause a great harm to the economy of a given locality. The table below shows the general comparison of the Ongar resident to that of the Epping Forest district in general.

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The above chart shows that the health status of the people living in the Ongar ward matched with the general health status of the whole district at large.

The chart below, moreover show the self assessment data of the population of Ongar ward stating whether they had limiting long term illness, health problems of disabilities which could hamper their normal work attendance routine (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). EMBED Excel.Chart.8 s Source: office for national statistics, 2007

Moreover, the 2007 deprivation, gave the general over view of level of deprivation from all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) with each given a rank out of the 78, which is the total number of LSOAs in the Epping district, for each area of deprivation (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). From the results, the less the index signifies hoe much the area is depriving from that factor (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). For instance, an LSOA with an income level of 2 would be well thought-out more deprived than an LSOA with an income level of 25 (Office of the National Statistics. 2007). .

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Source: office for national statistics, 2007

The above chart shows the indices of various deprivations in the three geographical areas of the Ongar ward in the Epping Forest district (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). From this article, statistical data shows that the people living in the West region, the largest, lack access to many thing as compared to the other regions. Though, it has invested in the security of the area than the other regions but there is a lot to be done to uplift the standard of the Deprivation area such as income, employment, health, education, and shelter.

The housing of the people of the Ongar ward is characterized by owned outright, mortgage or loaned houses, shared ownership, rented: council, housing finance, private lard lord or others (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). In chipping Ongar the owned outright houses and those bought on loan or mortgages strikes the highest indices of 37% and 44% respectively (Office of the National Statistics. 2007). The Office further explains that, an appreciable amount of the households are rented by the council and the concealed landlords. The table below shows the graphical representation of these results.

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Source: office for national statistics, 2007

Bassett, R (2012), in his ward profile, argues that unemployment is a problem that needs immediate response to the Ongar ward. However, the council offers a jobseekers allowance (JSA). For those claiming the allowances should have make a declaration they are not working and they are capable of, available for, and actively seeking work in that week of raising the claims (Office of the National Statistics, 2007). The office also notably points out that, 1.7%, 2.3% and 2.1% for the October, November and December respectively of the total Ongar population turn out to claim for the jobseekers allowance. The office however identifies people of the working age (16-74 yeas) travel to work by aid of vehicle as commuters or driving their cars. Driving of Vans and cars is the mostly used type of travel to work places though, some of the workers are home based (Collins, C.D.2009).

(Office of the National Statistics. 2007) shows that the population of the Ongar ward is not an exception of social evils like burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime violence and antisocial behavior. Insensitive behavior, irritating youths and abandoned vehicles records the highest incidences of the social shortcomings in the society.

Conclusion

The socioeconomic factors discussed herein major in making the Ongar ward a better place to live, work and study in. Therefore, the government collect the deprivation data so that it can ensure that security, infrastructure, health, education, housing and provision of employment to its citizens. By taking statistical data the government is enabled to direct its resource to projects that needs urgent response and hence not only improving the living standard of people but also increasing their life expectancy.

Bibliography

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Collins, C.D. (2009). Epping Forest district council. shaping the future. Available at: HYPERLINK “http://rds.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Published/C00000621/M00006026/AI00022872/04DraftfinalShapingtheFuture.pdf”http://rds.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Published/C00000621/M00006026/AI00022872/04DraftfinalShapingtheFuture.pdf. (Accessed: 16 march 2013)

Office of the National Statistics. (2007). Epping Forest District Ward Profile. Available at: http://www.oneeppingforest.org.uk/documents/ChippingOngar.pdf (accessed: 16 March 2013)