Moving Towards Inclusion

Welcome to Moving Towards Inclusion (MTI) 2009. MTI was funded by Government Office for the South West with the aim of providing everyone involved in the implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of the 2007-2013 ESF programme in the South West with "as comprehensive picture as possible of current levels of disadvantage amongst the population of the South West". It updates and extends the quantitative elements of the 2003 Moving to Inclusion, which remains an authoritative source of the qualitative dimension of exclusion.

The scope and focus of the analysis exploring as it does the scale of disadvantage across different population groups in terms of access to employment and training, quality of work taken up, worklessness and qualification attainment means the findings should also have value to those working on the equality agenda.

Moving to Inclusion 2009 comprises:

An introductory chapter providing background and context

Chapters exploring:

• Gender (including Lone parents)
  
• Age (including Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training)
  
• Ethnic Origin
  
• Disability
  

• Employment rate
• Employment gap

• Part time working
• Employment in managerial and professional occupations
• Employees undertaking job-related education or training

• Unemployment
• Out-of-work benefits
• Economic inactivity

• NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent) and above
• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) and above
• NVQ Level 4 (or equivalent) and above

• Table A: Local authority
• Table B: Equality strand
• Table C: Equality strand

• Barham, C., Hicks, S. and Jenkins, K. (2009) The impact of recession on the labour market, Office for National Statistics
• Burchardt, T and Vizard, P (2007) Definition of equality and framework for measurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics
• Stafford, B. and Duffy, D. (2009) Review of evidence on the impact of economic downturn on disadvantaged groups, DWP. Working Paper No. 68
• Suzanne Grogan Associates. (2003) Moving Towards Inclusion: a picture of disadvantage in the South West, Skills & Learning Intelligence Module of the South West Observatory (SLIM) o Office for National
• Statistics (2007) Report from the review of equality data

Access the 2003 Report

Equality Diversity Tool

Order a CD ROM or hard copy from swslim@ex.ac.uk.

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