Field Value Title Barnsley In Depth Children & Young People's ...

Barnsley in Depth Children’s and Young People’s Report – 2008/09 Informationunder 16 who were living in families in receipt of any of the following: IncomeSupport (IS), Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) and Incapacity Benefit (IB) or infamilies in receipt of Working Tax Credit (WTC)/ Disabled Person’s Tax Credit(DPTC) with equivalised income below 60% of median before housing costs.The national IDAC rankings have been used to identify how deprived childrenare in Barnsley SOAs compared with the rest of the country. Figure 2.5.2highlights that 21.1% of Barnsley’s SOAs fall into the 20% most deprivedSOAs in England – highlighting the extent of child poverty across the borough.Figure 2.5.2: Count of SOAs by Income Deprivation Affecting Children PercentileDeprivation Range Number of SOAs% of SOAs in Barnsley(most to least deprived)0-10% 12 8.2%10-20% 19 12.9%20-30% 19 12.9%30-40% 20 13.6%40-50% 27 18.4%50-60% 16 10.9%60-70% 15 10.2%70-80% 8 5.4%80-90% 9 6.1%90-100% 2 1.4%The number of children affected by income deprivation in an SOA can becalculated by multiplying the IDAC score by the number of children in eachSOA. Therefore it may be concluded that approximately 1 in 4 children inBarnsley are affected by Income Deprivation.- 18 -