A new year’s message
Source: The King’s Fund Health and Wellbeing Bulletin
This report examines the impact of the pandemic on educational, economic, social and health inequalities in the UK. It outlines data and evidence on the groups that have been most heavily impacted by widening inequalities and Covid-19.
Key findings include:
- The COVID crisis has exacerbated inequalities between the high- and low-paid and between graduates and non-graduates.
- The crisis has hit the self-employed and others in insecure and non-traditional forms of employment especially hard.
- Educational inequalities will almost certainly have been exacerbated by the crisis
- Between March and July, mortality rates from COVID-19 were twice as high in the most deprived areas as in the least deprived.
- The crisis has had very different impacts on different ethnic groups.
- Through 2020, pensioners have on average reported becoming financially better off, whilst the young have borne the brunt of job and income loss. (The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities)
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