Measures used to target funding overlook areas where poor, often minority ethnic, people live next to the better-off, analysis shows
More than a million people in England are living in pockets of hidden hardship, meaning that they could be missing out on vital help because their poverty is masked by neighbours who are better off, new analysis has revealed.
Ethnic minorities are most likely to be caught in these small areas of intense deprivation, which are not shown by existing measures used by local and national governments to target anti-deprivation funding.
