South Lakeland Health Improvement Plan - NHS Cumbria

Figure 26.2 illustrates how crime rates in South Lakeland have improved overtime from a rate of 32.3 in 2005/06 to a rate of 20.8 in 2007/08. Not only doesSouth Lakeland have the lowest overall crime rate in Cumbria, but it has seenthe largest reduction in crime rates since 2005.26. EducationIt can be seen in Figure 27.1 that South Lakeland is one of the bestperforming districts in Cumbria with respect to the GCSE pass rate. It falls intothe category of 50.7 – 60.5 which is second only to Eden in Cumbria.However, when comparing this to the North West region, there are manydistricts which have a higher rate than South Lakeland. Therefore there isroom to improve on the current pass rate so that South Lakeland becomesone of the top performing wards in the region.Table 27.1 shows how the GCSE pass rate has increased over time inSouth Lakeland from 62.5% in 2001/02 to 69.1% in 2007/08.Figure 27.2 shows information taken from the IMD (Index of MultipleDeprivation) education, skills and training deprivation subset. South Lakelandhas the lowest rate of adults with no/low qualifications and of people notentering higher education.Figure 27.1) Percentage of 16 year olds achieving 5 A* - C grades at GCSE. 2007/2008.Source: Floor Targets InteractiveSouth Lakeland Baseline Assessment 2009 52