Summary

What the indicators show: social cohesion

Half of all the primary school children who are eligible for free school meals are concentrated in a fifth of the schools, a similar proportion to a decade ago.
Pupils eligible for free school meals have, on average, twice as many pupils in their school eligible for free school meals.
Two-thirds of all local education primary and nursery schools in inner London have a high proportion of their children eligible for free school meals.

The overall number of underage conceptions is similar to a decade ago, although fewer now lead to actual births.
Teenage motherhood is seven times as common amongst those from manual social backgrounds as for those from professional backgrounds.
The total rate of conceptions amongst girls aged under 16 is highest in London. The rate of births is highest in the North East and in Yorkshire and the Humber.

The number of children found guilty for indictable offences has remained steady over the last decade, whilst the number cautioned fell up to 2002 but has been rising since then.
The peak rate for offending is at ages 16 and 17.
More than half of the offences committed by children are committed by those aged 15 or under.
Three times as many boys are found guilty of, or cautioned for, indictable offences as girls but the difference is much less for theft.

There are 60,000 looked-after children in England, somewhat more than a decade ago.
Although falling, a third of looked-after children still obtain no GCSEs and a further fifth obtain fewer than five GCSEs.
Almost a third of previously looked-after children are not in education, employment or training at age 19.

The number of 18- to 20-year-olds found guilty of an indictable offence fell between 1999 and 2004 but has remained broadly unchanged since then.
Black young adults are four times as likely as white young adults to be in prison.

Among those aged 60 or over, around a quarter of women feel very unsafe out at night, four times the proportion for men.
Among women aged 60 and over, those from lower income households are one and a half times as likely to feel very unsafe out at night as those from higher income households.

Half of all people in social housing are in low income compared to one in seven of those in other housing tenures. Both risks are similar to a decade ago.
In two-thirds of households in social housing, the head of household is not in paid work. Although this has been the case throughout the last decade, it was only a half at the start of the 1980s.
Almost half of heads of households aged between 25 and 54 in social rented housing are not in paid work compared to just one in twenty of those in owner-occupation.
Three-quarters of heads of households in social housing in Northern Ireland are not in work, more than in any other part of the UK.

Low-income households are more likely than richer households to feel dissatisfied with the area they live in, but the proportion is still small.
The group most likely to be dissatisfied with their local area are social renters living in deprived areas in London.
25% of people think that their local area has been getting worse over time compared with only 10% who think it has been getting better.
On most issues, the perception that they are serious problems is more prevalent in deprived areas than in non-deprived areas, with the notable exception of traffic.

Both burglaries and violent crimes have halved over the last decade.
Lone parents and unemployed people are both twice as likely to be burgled and twice as likely to be the victims of violence as the average person.
The burglary rate is almost twice as high in London as in other parts of the south of England.
The proportion of adults who are very worried about being the victim of crime is much lower than a decade ago.
Adults on low incomes, living in inner city areas, in bad health and social renting are all more likely to be very worried about being a victim of crime than adults on average.
Throughout the last decade, many more adults think that the local crime rate has been increasing than think that it has been decreasing.

Ten million adults who are neither in paid work nor in full-time education do not participate in any social, political, cultural or community organisations.
Levels of non-participation are similar across the income distribution.