Structurally Unsound Slides 8 Oct 2024_ final.pdf

The UK has made progress in addressing societal inequalities, but continues to be shaped by interlinked structural disparities. That includes those related to gender, race, class, sexuality, age and disability. Five years ago, the Resolution Foundation and UCL collaborated on a commission exploring the interactions between these inequalities. Since then, the UK has gone through significant challenges, including a pandemic and a cost-of-living crisis, so how have UK inequalities evolved?

How have disadvantaged groups been affected by recent economic shocks, and what structural barriers persist? How do the issues of health and disability – which have risen up the political and public policy agenda – interact with other inequalities? And how do structural inequalities fit into the new Government’s agenda, and what key policy challenges must they address?
The Resolution Foundation, in partnership with UCL, is hosting an in-person and interactive webinar to explore these important questions.

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2. Structurally Unsound:
Social inequalities in the
mid-2020s
Revisiting the Structurally
Unsound report, five years on
8 October 2024

3. Approaches for Equity
Recognisethat
language matters
Shift the focus
onto equity
Ensure diversity
of evidence in
decision making
Change the
structure of
society by
changing who
designs it
Adopt a place-
based approach

4. We've seen new trends emerge...
Source: RF
analysis of ONS
Labour Force
Survey (2018)

5. Structural barriers have remained...
Source: RF
analysis of ONS
Labour Force
Survey (2023)
Employment rates 2008 to 2018, 2018 to 2023, 16 –64 year olds

6. Where we've seen improvements, they've been small...
Source: RF
analysis of ONS
Labour Force
Survey (2018)

7. Source: Official for
National Statistics
Census (2021)
58.71%
27.69%
29.84%
32.75%
61.87%
47.08%
65.61%
35.25%
55.55%
68.59%
77.43%
56.98%
20.54%
32.92%
25.75%
63.45%
50.49%
67.61%
38.34%
59.52%
72.36%
79.06%
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh ethnic groups
Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African ethnic groups
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
Other ethnic groups
Three or more ethnic groups
Two ethnic groups
White ethnic groups
16-34 years
35-49 years
50-64 years
65 years and over
Homeownership rates, by ethnicity and age of combined household characteristics: 2021
WalesEngland

8. In many areas…
Source: LGA, 2023/24 data submitted by English local authorities as of 19 April 2024.
Median pay gap by type of authority

9. And in significant numbers...
Number of adults aged 16 –64 who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness(UK)

10. •Over the course of the last parliament, 1 million extra people fell into self-reporting
low wellbeing.
•Since March 2018, the cost of living has increased by 25%, within-work poverty
growing significantly, presenting different structural challenges for policymakers.
•The cost-of-living 'crisis' did not emerge in isolation; its unequal impacts were
shaped by existing inequalities. In 2020-21, around one in five peoplelived in
poverty, with projections of 300,000more expected to fall into absolute poverty next
year. Relative child poverty is expected to reach its highest levels since 1988-98in
2027-28.
•Inequality reductions are fragile; whilst shocks have ripple effects and populations
naturally change, progress is easily reversed by shocks, as seen in current trends.
The broader picture…

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