Health inequalities across Salford are being made worse because some 6,400 of the city’s residents cannot speak English well ‘or at all’ coupled with ‘digital deprivation’. That’s according to two Labour councillors who spoke out at Salford’s Health and Social Care Scrutiny Panel.
Labour members Coun James Dawson and Yolande Amana-Ghola were speaking following the presentation of a report titled ‘Tackling Inequalities: The Salford Way’ by policy officer Shaira Bowes. In it she said that Salford’s population had increased by 36,000 (15.4 per cent) in the last 10 years - the biggest rise in the north - and included 21,000 more 18 to 39-year-olds.
Meanwhile, ethnic diversity is also increasing with the number of residents identifying as Black or Black British: African going up from 5,400 to 13,400 - a 151pc increase. ‘Other White’ rose by a similar number from 10,300 to 18,900 (plus 83pc).
