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Social Justice a Scotland where everyone matters
Indicators of progress : definitions, data, baseline and trends information
Annex to the Social Justice Annual Report 2000
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Contents
Introduction
CHILDREN
1. Reducing the proportion of our children
living in workless households
2. Reducing the proportion of our children living
in low income households
3. Increasing the proportions of our children who
attain the appropriate levels in reading, writing and maths by the end of
Primary 2 and Primary 7
4. All our children will have access to quality care
and early learning before entering school
5. Improving the well-being of our young children
through reductions in the proportion of women smoking during pregnancy,
the percentage of lowbirth-weight babies, dental decay among 5 year olds,
and by increasing the proportion of women breastfeeding
6. Reducing the number of households with children,
living in temporary accommodation
YOUNG PEOPLE
7. Halving the proportion of 16-19 year olds
who are not in education, training or employment
8. All our young people leaving local authority care
will have achieved at least English and Maths Standard Grades and have
access to appropriate housing options
9. Bringing the poorest-performing 20 % of pupils,
in terms of Standard Grade achievement, closer to the performance of all
pupils
10. Reducing by a third the days lost every year
through exclusion from school and truancy
11. Improving the health of young people through
reductions in smoking by 12-15 years old, teenage pregnancies among 13-15
year olds and the rate of suicides among young
people
12. No one has to sleep rough
FAMILIES AND WORKING AGE PEOPLE
13. Reducing the proportion of unemployed working
age people
14. Reducing the proportion of working age people
with low incomes
15. Increasing the employment rates of groups, such
as lone parents and ethnic minorities, that are relatively disadvantaged
in the labour market
16. Increasing the proportion of students from under-represented,
disadvantaged groups and areas in higher education compared with the overall
student population in higher education
17. Increasing the proportion of people with learning
disabilities able to live at home or in a ‘homely’ environment
18. Improving the health of families by reducing
smoking, alcohol misuse, poor diet and mortality rates from coronary heart
disease
OLDER PEOPLE
19. Reducing the proportion of older people with
low incomes
20. Increasing the proportion of working age people
contributing to a non-state pension
21. Increasing the proportion of older people able
to live independently by doubling the proportion of older people receiving
respite care at home and increasing home care opportunities
22. Increasing the number of older people taking
physical exercise and reducing the rates of mortality from coronary heart
disease and the prevalence of respiratory disease.
23. Reducing the fear of crime among older people
COMMUNITIES
24. Reducing the gap in unemployment rates between
the worst areas and the average rate for Scotland
25. Reducing the incidence of drug misuse in general
and of injections and sharing of needles in particular
26. Reducing crime rates in disadvantaged areas
27. Increasing the quality and variety of homes in
our most disadvantaged communities
28. Increasing the number of people across communities
taking part in voluntary activities
29. Accelerating the number of households in disadvantaged
areas with access to the Internet.
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