Tranent, Wallyford & Macmerry (Twm) Ward Profile
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TRANENT, WALLYFORD & MACMERRY (TWM) WARD PROFILE November 2017 Contents Introduction and Sources ..................................................................................................................... 3 The Tranent, Wallyford & Macmerry Ward ......................................................................................... 4 Population ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Deprivation in the ward ....................................................................................................................... 8 Income and Employment ................................................................................................................... 11 Employment Patterns in the Tranent, Wallyford & Macmerry Ward ........................................ 11 Economic Activity across the Ward ............................................................................................ 14 How is the ward coping financially? ........................................................................................... 17 Education and Training ...................................................................................................................... 21 Education and Training among adults ........................................................................................ 21 Education and Training for children and young people ............................................................. 23 School Leavers ............................................................................................................................ 27 Health and Social Care ....................................................................................................................... 28 Illness, Mortality and Hospital Admissions ................................................................................ 29 Maternity and Child Health ........................................................................................................ 31 Young people’s attitudes to health ............................................................................................ 32 Care and Social Care ................................................................................................................... 33 Neighbourhood and Place ................................................................................................................. 36 Improving the Area .................................................................................................................... 38 Local High Streets ....................................................................................................................... 38 Leisure, Learning and Sport ........................................................................................................ 39 Housing .............................................................................................................................................. 42 Housing Type and Size ................................................................................................................ 43 Housing Tenure .......................................................................................................................... 45 Housing Supply ........................................................................................................................... 46 Housing Quality .......................................................................................................................... 47 Homelessness ............................................................................................................................. 49 Crime and Safety ................................................................................................................................ 50 Reported crimes in the Ward ..................................................................................................... 51 Fear of Crime .............................................................................................................................. 53 Anti‐Social Behaviour ................................................................................................................. 54 Fire incidences across the ward ................................................................................................. 54 Transport and Travel .......................................................................................................................... 56 Access Deprivation ..................................................................................................................... 58 Environment ...................................................................................................................................... 59 Air Quality and Polllution ........................................................................................................... 62 Local Environmental Concerns ................................................................................................... 63 Young People and the Environment .......................................................................................... 63 Perceptions of East Lothian Council & Satisfaction with Services ..................................................... 64 Table of Figures .................................................................................................................................. 66 2 TWM WARD PROFILE – November 2017 Introduction and Sources The profile is one of 6 ward area profiles prepared to support the work of the East Lothian Partnership and compliment the East Lothian Profile. The profile has been compiled in consideration of the East Lothian Single Outcome Agreement and to reflect the priorities identified by the East Lothian Community Planning Partnership. In preparing this profile every attempt has been made to use the most recent information publically available for each theme and therefore the information here has come from a variety of sources including :‐ - National Records of Scotland (NRS) – population estimates and projections http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk - East Lothian Residents Survey 2017 commissioned by East Lothian Council cover a range of issues including quality of life, community cohesion, social attitudes, community safety and satisfaction with services. - Scotland’s Census Results 2011 ‐ www.scrol.gov.uk - Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics – www.sns.gov.uk part of the Scottish Governments on‐going programme to improve the availability, consistency and accessibility of small area statistics in Scotland - Community Health and Well‐being Profiles – produced by the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) and comprising 61 indicators of health and wider determinants of health www.scotpho.org.uk/profiles - Scottish Schools Online ‐ www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/ - Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) – provides an analysis of the SIMD 2016 http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/SIMD - East Lothian Council ‐ Information provided by relevant Departments - CACI Paycheck 2012 ‐ http://www.caci.co.uk/paycheck.aspx. - NOMIS ‐ a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give free access to the most detailed and up‐to‐date UK labour market statistics from official sources www.nomisweb.co.uk - Student Evaluation of Experience Survey – a yearly survey of all P6 and S2 pupils at Local Authority schools, East Lothian Council (combined P6 and S2 results) - Lothian and Borders Police – Measuring our Performance www.lbp.police.uk/freedom‐ of‐information/pl_performance.asp - Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service ‐ Local Fire and Rescue Plan for East Lothian 2016 www.lbfire.org.uk - Local Incomes and Poverty in Scotland – 2013 report from the Income Modeling Project carried out by Heriot Watt University http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/ - Hands‐Up Survey – Sustran’s annual Scotland wide survey of how pupils travel to school TWM WARD PROFILE – November 2017 3 The Tranent, Wallyford & Macmerry (TWM) Ward Tranent, Wallyford & Macmerry (TWM) is the East Lothian Council Multi‐member ward situated to the west of East Lothian and centred on Tranent. Figure 1 ‐ Ward Map (Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland) PLEASE NOTE ‐ Throughout this profile a number of different sources have been used to gather statistical information, which each use different boundaries and area definitions. In this report: Individual towns and villages, Tranent, Ormiston, Macmerry, Elphinstone and Pencaitland, are defined by the data zones boundaries . The Ross High Cluster – refers to all of the above area with the addition of Saltoun and Humbie Intermediate zones are also used to present variations within the ward. In this case the Ormiston Zone includes Ormiston and the surrounding smaller settlements, Tranent North Zone covers Muirpark, Coalgate, Northfield and the area east of the Heugh, and the Tranent South Zone covers Windygoul, Carlaverock, Elphinstone, Caponhall and Bankpark. Macmerry and Pencaitland are not included in these zones. East Lothian Central refers to the combined Fa’side and Preston, Seton Gosford wards, and is sometimes divided to refer to Tranent town and the Fa’side villages Data zones are the smallest geographic areas at which data is collected and analysed. There are 25 in the TWM ward 4 TWM WARD PROFILE – November 2017 Population HEADLINES