Principles met

Cheshire West and Chester is home to over 343,000 people with diverse, attractive and prosperous neighbourhoods that generally afford residents a good quality of life. However, there are pockets of intense inequality in opportunities and outcomes affecting both urban and rural communities.

Within the Borough almost 25,000 people live in areas within the most deprived 10 per cent in England, 15 per cent of households have an annual income under £15,000 per year and over 9,000 children live in poverty. There is also an unacceptable gap in life expectancy between those people living in the most deprived neighbourhoods compared with the most affluent areas. In Cheshire West and Chester, this gap is almost a decade for men and almost 8 years for women.

Cheshire West and Chester Council facilitated two Poverty Truth Commissions held in 2017 and 2020 with the aim of tackling the root causes of poverty and addressing gaps in services across the borough.

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