Suffolk County Council and the Suffolk and North East Essex ICS*
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Suffolk County Council and The Suffolk and North East Essex ICS* JANUARY 2020 *INTEGRATED CARE SYSTEM Introduction This summary provides a brief overview of the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) and its relationship to Suffolk. This summary provides information relating to all the local authorities (LAs) in the ICS footprint. On 1 April 2019 East Suffolk Council was formed, covering the former districts of Suffolk Coastal District Council and Waveney District Council. On the same day, Forest Heath District Council and St Edmundsbury Borough Council were replaced by a single district council called West Suffolk Council. Colchester and Tendring local authorities form the North East Essex element of the Suffolk and North East Essex ICS geographic footprint. Figure 1: Integrated Care System (ICS) boundary (black dotted line) and Suffolk local authorities, 2019 © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Whilst this paper provides an update to a document published in 2017, the decision has been made to provide a broad overview for the entire ICS area, identifying key demographic variation between the geographies. This is due to the boundary changes mentioned above. Although Colchester is statistically similar to West Suffolk using the CIPFA nearest neighbours methodology, Tendring has no Suffolk statistically similar neighbour (previously this was Waveney). 1 Local authority descriptive summaries West Suffolk “The area of West Suffolk is a predominantly rural district in the heart of East Anglia. Well- connected with London, the rest of East Anglia and the Midlands, West Suffolk is a safe and comparatively prosperous place in which to live. It also has some beautiful and accessible countryside areas, including grassland, heath and forest. West Suffolk has six market towns, Brandon, Bury St Edmunds, Clare, Haverhill, Mildenhall and Newmarket”. Babergh and Mid Suffolk “The districts of Babergh and Mid Suffolk form the heart of Suffolk and cover an area of over 1,400 square kilometres (540 square miles). They are predominantly rural in nature, with a number of market towns. …the heart of Suffolk is a very special place to live and work; with 6,400 listed buildings, 60 conservation areas and two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Both districts feature in the top 50 rural areas to live across the UK in terms of well-being and satisfaction with quality of life. The latest Halifax Rural Areas Quality of Life Survey identifies that Babergh is thirty-third in 2015/16 and Mid Suffolk has maintained a good position at twenty-fifth”. Ipswich “Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, with a diverse cultural population, rich heritage, vibrant waterfront, dynamic university and an unparalleled arts and sports offer. It is also proud of its status as the oldest continually settled English town. Ipswich also has several large employers who provide a significant amount of employment”. East Suffolk “East Suffolk Council covers the same geographical area as Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils combined – from Felixstowe and the outskirts of Ipswich in the south, to Bungay and across to Lowestoft in the north. East Suffolk is recognised by many as an economic powerhouse area- with many major economic assets e.g. offshore / nuclear energy, Felixstowe Por, BT’s global research and development HQ…”. 2 Tendring “Tendring is located in the north-eastern peninsula of Essex and covers an area of approximately 130 square miles. The district is bounded by the River Stour in the north, River Colne in the south, the sea to the east and the town of Colchester to the west. The main populous areas are those on the coastline such as Frinton, Walton, Brightlingsea, Clacton and Harwich. Harwich is home to a busy international freight and passenger port. Tendring district houses a large elderly population and is also home to the most deprived small area in England, locally known as Jaywick”. Colchester “The borough of Colchester is situated in the north east of Essex, is approximately 60 miles from London and covers an area of approximately 125 square miles. The main town is Colchester but there are many surrounding small towns and villages of which the largest are Stanway, Tiptree, West Mersea and Wivenhoe. The borough houses a large university of approximately 8,000 students and is also home to a garrison with capacity for approximately 4,000 military personnel”. Sources:1–6 Population For the purposes of calculating the ICS footprint, the old geographical local authority (LA) boundaries have been used, in order to exclude the Waveney population. Figure 1: Population Mid 2018 2018 Population Colchester 192,523 Tendring 145,803 Ipswich 137,532 Suffolk Coastal 129,938 St Edmundsbury 113,482 Mid Suffolk 102,493 Babergh 91,401 Forest Heath 65,399 0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 Source: 7 3 • The total population of the Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) ICS is nearly 978,600 people (978,571), as of 2018 estimates. This compares to a population of approximately 758,600 (758,556) for the Suffolk County Council area. • The Colchester and Tendring population combined equates to 338,300 individuals. When Waveney is subtracted from the Suffolk footprint and Colchester and Tendring are added, this equates to a net gain of 220,000 residents when comparing the Suffolk footprint to that of the ICS area. • Using new boundary data the largest local authority area would be East Suffolk Council, however as this contains the former Waveney district, calculations have been made using the former LA boundaries. o Using this method, Colchester has the largest population (around 192,500 individuals), and Forest Heath has the smallest population (65,400). Forest Heath is now part of the West Suffolk Council area. • The new council areas have been included for comparison only below (shaded grey). • Ipswich has the highest population density per square kilometre. Table 1: Area and population density (2018) Name Area (sq km) People per sq. km Population estimate East Suffolk 1,262 197 248,249 West Suffolk 1,035 173 178,881 Suffolk Coastal 892 146 129,938 Mid Suffolk 871 118 102,493 St Edmundsbury 657 173 113,482 Babergh 594 154 91,401 Forest Heath 378 173 65,399 Tendring 338 432 145,803 Colchester 329 585 192,523 Ipswich 40 3,480 137,532 Source: 7 Age Figure 2: Proportion in broad age band, mid 2018 100.0% 7.0% 4.5% 5.0% 4.8% 6.2% 6.3% 7.7% 8.1% 6.4% 6.2% 90.0% 12.7% 13.0% 11.6% 18.1% 16.2% 16.8% 16.4% 80.0% 19.0% 19.6% 21.5% 70.0% 30.0% 26.9% 30.5% 60.0% 34.6% 32.0% 32.3% 31.8% 34.3% 34.4% 31.7% 50.0% 40.0% 29.1% 30.2% 28.4% 23.3% 22.4% 23.3% 30.0% 18.5% 20.1% 17.5% 18.4% 20.0% 10.0% 21.2% 23.7% 24.8% 24.6% 20.9% 22.1% 20.8% 20.4% 22.1% 22.3% 0.0% 0-19 20-39 40-64 65-79 80+ Source: 7 4 • Tendring in North East Essex has the highest number of residents aged 65 years and over (approximately 43,100), and the highest proportion of residents aged 65 years and over (29.5%). • Tendring also has the highest number and proportion of residents aged 80 years and over (11,800 and 8.1% respectively). • Compared to the ICS footprint as a whole, Suffolk County Council (including Waveney), has a higher proportion of residents aged 65 and over (23.2% vs 22.5%). • However, when looking at the numbers of individuals aged 65 and over, there are around 176,100 people aged 65 and over in Suffolk, compared to 220,500 for the ICS, a difference of 44,400. • The former Forest Heath district (now part of West Suffolk) has the highest proportion of 0-19 year olds, nearly 1 in 4 people in the area in 2018 were aged 0-19 (24.8%). However, the highest absolute number of 0-19 year olds live in Colchester Borough, where 45,600 people are aged 0-19. Economic activity Table 2: Economic activity in ICS districts and boroughs, Jan-December 2018 % Forest Mid Suffolk Babergh Colchester Heath Ipswich Suffolk St Edmundsbury Coastal Tendring Economic 82.5 81.3 78.9 80.3 82.1 84.2 85.0 76.6 activity rate - aged 16-64 Employment rate 78.6 79.2 74.8 78.1 77.7 83.0 81.8 74.0 – aged 16-64 Unemployment 4.7 2.5 5.1 2.7 5.4 No data 3.7 3.4 rate –aged 16-64 Unemployment 4.2 2.5 4.9 2.7 5.1 No data 3.9 3.2 rate – aged 16+ Source: 8 Table 3: Economic activity for Suffolk and the East of England, Jan-December 2018 % Suffolk East Economic activity rate - aged 16-64 81.6 80.8 Employment rate - aged 16-64 78.5 78.0 Unemployment rate - aged 16-64 3.8 3.5 Unemployment rate - aged 16+ 3.7 3.5 Source: 8 • Within the old district and boundary areas, Suffolk Coastal had the highest economic activity and employment rates for people aged 16-64 in 2018, Tendring had the lowest. • Unemployment was highest in Mid Suffolk, with 5.4% of 16-64 year olds unemployed, higher than both Suffolk and the East of England. 5 Qualifications Figure 3: Degree level qualifications, people age 16-64, 2018 % with NVQ4+ (Degree level or higher) 45.0 40.0 41.6 38.6 38.3 37.8 35.0 35.2 32.6 30.0 30.2 25.0 27.1 23.6 20.0 21.1 15.0 10.0 5.0 0.0 Source: 8 Figure 4: No qualifications, people age 16-64, 2018 % with no formal qualifications 12.0 10.0 11.1 8.0 8.6 6.0 7.4 5.7 5.1 4.9 4.0 3.3 3.3 2.6 2.0 0.0 Source: 8 Note: no data for Forest Heath • Mid Suffolk residents have the highest proportion of working age residents qualified to degree level or higher (41.6%).