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Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research

 

This project sought to assemble a coherent evidence place on where deprivation is experienced in Suffolk, how it is concentrated and where it may be hard to identify. It built on an assumption that deprivation can be material, physical or social and may be obscured by being concentrated in certain places or among certain groups of population. It may also arise from a combination of personal and place characteristics.

The project sought to uncover the ‘hidden’ needs in Suffolk and some understanding of the nature and extent of those needs, as well as how well statutory or voluntary provision was addressing the issues. Identifying such ‘hidden’ needs involves working with small area data from a range of sources, but also recognising that needs can be complex and are not always easily quantifiable or picked up in official statistics and categories. The aim of the project was to help Suffolk Foundation to inform their grant making activities.

Hidden Needs: Hidden Deprivation and Community Need in Suffolk. A Report to the Suffolk Foundation

Research by CCHPR commissioned by The Suffolk Foundation describes how even in a superficially affluent county like Suffolk, there are areas and families experiencing deprivation.

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Funder

Suffolk Foundation

Project Start Date

1st August 2010

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