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The postcode lottery laid bare by new website

Pupil wellbeing
A new website brings to life data on just how much children's life chances can depend on where they are born. Richard Garside explains.

It has long been known that where children are born and grow up affects the opportunities they have and what they do in their lives. A teenager living in a former industrial city with high levels of adult unemployment will often have different hopes and fears than one who has grown up in a prosperous town in the South East.

Bringing this common-sense understanding to life in an immediate and accessible manner has, however, proved difficult. Much of the data on divergent life chances, when it exists at all, is buried away in obscure statistical publications that all but the specialist would find difficult to understand.

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