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SIMD Detailed Analysis Mintlaw Academy Network Area 2013 Contents Mintlaw Academy Network Area ................................................................................... 1 Population ...................................................................................................................... 3 Poverty ........................................................................................................................... 4 Income Deprivation ................................................................................................... 4 Childhood Poverty...................................................................................................... 5 Employment Deprivation ........................................................................................... 6 Education ....................................................................................................................... 6 Attitudes to Health ........................................................................................................ 9 Life Expectancy ............................................................................................................ 11 Levels of Crime ............................................................................................................. 12 Mintlaw Academy Network Area The Mintlaw Academy Network Area covers the area highlighted on the map on the next page. It includes 12 schools: Auchnagatt School Fetterangus School Kininmonth School Longside School Maud School Mintlaw Academy Mintlaw School New Deer School New Pitsligo and St John's School Pitfour School Strichen School Stuartfield School 1 Population Over the past ten years the population of the Mintlaw Academy Network Area has steadily increaed with 720 more people living in the area in 2011. The pensionable age population in the area has increased by 842 between 2001 – 2011. This group now account for 21.2% of the population, an increase from 16.08% in 2001. The proportions of pensionable age individuals in the most and least deprived areas has increased across the ten year period, however, in the 15% most deprived areas, the proportion of pensionable age population dropped between 2010 and 2011 from 21.05% to 20.67%. 3 The population of children has been decreasing year on year between 2001 and 2011. In 2011, children accounted for 19.9% of the population in the Mintlaw Academy Network Area, this has decreased to 16.99% in 2011. The 15% most deprived areas saw a marked increase in the proportion of children in the population between 2010 and 2011, rising from 16.7% to 18.6%. The proportion of children in the least deprived areas dropped over the same period. The increasing older population and falling numbers of children should be monitored over the coming years to identify whether this trend continues. This will impact on where the priorities of this area will lie in the coming years. Poverty Income Deprivation The rate of income deprivation in the Mintlaw Academy Network Area is 7.3%, this is marginally higher than the Aberdeenshire average of 7%, but lower than the Scottish average of 13%. The level of income deprivation in the 15% most deprived datazones in the Mintlaw Academy Network has been approximately twice as high as the rest of the area in the past 10 years. The most deprived areas also exceeded the national average in 2011, with 14% being income deprived, in comparison to the Scottish average of 13%. 4 Childhood Poverty The level of childhood poverty in the Mintlaw Academy Network area is 9.8%%. This is lower than the average in the Buchan area (12.5%) and the national average of (18.6%), but lower than Aberdeenshire of (8.5%). The level of children in poverty in the 15% most deprived areas in the Mintlaw Academy Network (21.7%) is three times greater than that of the least deprived areas. This is also higher than the Buchan and Scottish averages. 5 Employment Deprivation The percentage of those in employment deprivation in the Mintlaw Academy Network area is 7.27%, this is lower than the Buchan average of 9.5% but higher than the Aberdeenshire average of 6%. The most deprived datazones in the Mintlaw Network Area have had consistently higher levels of employment deprivation than the least deprived areas between 2002 and 2011. Education The average attendance rate in the Mintlaw Academy Network area in primary schools is 95.48%, this is lower than the Aberdeenshire (96.2%) average and slightly higher than the Scottish (95.2%) average. Attendance rates are lower for secondary schools with the average attendance rate dropping to 89.65% in the Mintlaw Academy Network. This is below both the Aberdeenshire (92.8%) and the Scottish (91.1%) averages. Attendance is between the most and least deprived areas does not differ for primary schools, however, attendance in secondary school is consistently higher in the 85% least deprived areas. 6 The percentage of S4 pupils who gained English and Maths at SQF Level 3 or above is 92.2%, lower than the Aberdeenshire (94.5%) and Scottish (93%) averages. Performance is considerably lower in the Mintlaw Academy Network area for the percentage of S4 pupils with 5 awards at SCQF level 3 and above. 61.9% attained these awards in this area compared to 93.6% in Aberdeenshire and 92.3% in Scotland. 7 In upper secondary education, the percentage of pupils awarded 3 SCQF level 6 and above is 59.9%, this is lower than the Aberdeenshire average of 69.3% and the national average of 64.6%. S4 pupils in the most and least deprived areas performed comparably in 2011, however, half as many S6 pupils from the 15% most deprived areas (31.6%) achieved 3 awards at SCQF level 6 or above than those in the rest of the area (64.7%). In 2010/11, 89.4% of school leavers went onto a positive destination (Employment, Further Education, Higher Education, or Training). This is lower than Aberdeenshire average (91.3%) and above the Scotland (88.8%). In 2010/11, 87.8% of school leavers in the most deprived areas of the Mintlaw Academy Network area went on to positive destinations. This is lower than the national average (88.8%) and that of the least deprived areas (91.1%). Of the school leavers who did go on to positive destinations (Employment, Further Education, Higher Education, and Training), the 15% most deprived area saw the highest proportion of pupils going into Further Education consistently each year (45% in 2010/11). In the less deprived areas, school leavers were most likely to go into emplyoment (26.1%) and higher education (34.9%) than individuals from the most deprived areas (12.1% and 21.2% respectively). Poorer qualificatsions are likely to be a major factor in why much lower proportions of school leavers from deprived areas go to these specific destinations. Other factors include poor transport links and lack of income 8 to support full time higher education. More school leavers from the 15% most deprvied areas went into training (8.4%) than the less deprived (5.6%). Attitudes to Health The percentage of women smoking at maternity appointment booking in the Mintlaw Academy Network area is 12.4%. This is lower than the Buchan area average of 18.1% and the Aberdeenshire and Scottish averages of 14.7% and 17.1% respectively. 9 The proportion of women smoking at their maternity appointment booking is considerably higher for those in the 15% most deprived areas, compared to the least deprived. These levels increased from 12.5% in the 2008-10 period to 29.4% in the 2009-11 period. The proportion of women smoking at maternity appointment booking in the 85% least deprived areas in the Mintlaw Academy Network area has reduced year on year. The proportion in 2009/11 is 4% less than the 2008/09 data collection period. The rate of low weight, live, singleton births is only available for the 85% least deprived areas. The current rate is 0.3%, which is lower than both the Aberdeenshire (1.27%) and national (2.04%) averages. The rate of low birth rates in the least deprived areas has been in decline since 2007. The level of breastfeeding at the 6-8 week review of babies is 42.8%. This is lower than the Aberdeenshire (45.3%) average, but higher than the rate in Scotland (36.7%). Rates of breastfeeding in the most deprived areas has remained constant, whereas rates have risen in the least deprived areas from 31.3% in 2008/10 to 45.6% in 2009/11. 10 Life Expectancy The life expectancy of Aberdeenshire between 2006 and 2010 was higher than that of the Scottish average for both males and females. Males were expected to live until 77.9 in Aberdeenshire, and 75.3 in Scotland, whereas females in Aberdeenshire were expected to live until 81.5 in Aberdeenshire and 80.1 in Scotland. The average life expectancy for men in the 15% most deprived areas in Aberdeenshire between 2006 and 2010 was 72.5, below the Aberdeenshire and national average. Males in the least deprived areas were expected to live above the Aberdeenshire average, living until 78.9 years. A similar pattern is observed in females, to a lesser extent. Female life expectancy in the 15% most deprived areas was 78.9, 3 years less than the least deprived areas and the Aberdeenshire average. 11 Levels of Crime The SIMD crime domain rate is based on five indicators of broad crime types: crimes of violence; domestic house breaking; vandalism; drug offence and minor assault and is referred to as ‘SIMD crime’ rather that total crime, as it does not include all recorded crimes. There was an average of 275 SIMD crimes per 10,000 population of the Mintlaw Academy Network Area in 2011. This is higher than the average of 208 in Aberdeenshire and lower than the Scottish average of 453. Crime rates in the most deprived areas have risen above 2004 levels to 213 per 10,000. This is lower than the average number of crimes in the least deprived areas (290). The least deprived areas continue to have a higher prevalence of crime in comparison to the least deprived areas. 12 .
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