Facts About Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate, taken from different sources, such as the ClassDivide Campaign: 

EDUCATION

• The Council’s data reveals that only 37% young people from Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate equipped with basic grades at GCSE English and Maths in 2019, leaving school at a serious disadvantage to the citywide average of 69% that year.

• Despite being half as likely to succeed in these subjects, there is no strategy in place from Brighton & Hove City Council to address this.

• The basic grades gap is not confined to English and Maths. Attainment 8 – a measure of a pupil’s average grade across a set suite of eight subjects – for young people from Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate was 32.2 in 2019 compared to 47.6 for young people in the rest of Brighton and Hove.

• Children and young people from the East Brighton communities of Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate are twice as likely as their counterparts across Brighton and Hove to be excluded from school at least once.

• They are three times more likely than other children in Brighton and Hove to be educated at a special school or pupil referral unit.

HEALTH & WELLBEING

• 7,741 people 100% experience 1 or more of the following: · Shortened life expectancy · Illness and disability · emergency hospital admissions · Mood and anxiety disorders 100% compared to 19.8% for England.

ECONOMY & OPPORTUNITY

• East Brighton is in the top 10% least economically advantaged areas in the country and 43% of children living in the ward live in poverty.

• East Brighton Food Co-operative have cooked and delivered 135,000 + free freshly made gourmet meals across the City of Brighton & Hove since the first lock down in March 2020. Stark evidence this community have been hit by rising household bills and general expenses.