Summary

What the indicators show: social cohesion

Half of all the primary and nursery 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 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 cautioned for indictable offences has fallen sharply since 2007, reversing the previously rising trend.
The peak rate for for offending is at age 17.
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 and much greater for drug offences.

There are 65,000 looked-after children in England, slightly more than a decade ago.
Although falling, a quarter of looked-after children still obtain no qualifications and a further quarter obtain fewer than five GCSEs or equivalent.
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, but lower than a decade ago.
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 owner occupiers. 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.
Half of heads of households aged between 25 and 54 in social rented housing are not in paid work compared to just one in fifteen 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 groups most likely to be dissatisfied with their local area are those living in deprived areas, lone parents and social renters.
A quarter of people think that their local area has been getting worse over time compared with only one in ten who think it has been getting better.
The perception that there are serious problems is more prevalent in deprived areas than in non-deprived areas, with litter/rubbish being the subject most often cited as a problem.
On average, people in more deprived areas are slightly - but only slightly - more likely to be dissatisfied with their local public services. Services for young people have high levels of dissatisfaction.

The number of both burglaries and violent crimes is substantially lower than a decade ago.
Young households and the unemployed are at high risk of both being burgled and of being the victims of violence.
The burglary rate is twice as high in Yorkshire & the Humber and in London as in Wales. There is less variation in the incidence of violent crime.
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, in bad health, living in inner city areas 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 thought that their local crime rate had been increasing than thought that it had 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.
At a third of all adults, the proportion of adults who did not volunteer in 2009/10 was higher than at any point in the previous decade.
The group least like to volunteer regularly are those living in deprived areas.