Tackling social mobility: how to find deprived postcodes to tailor your recruitment strategy
Tackling inequality and improving social mobility should be high on the business agenda. Far from just a moral case, the business case for addressing these issues has been proven. Ann Potterton, Head of Apprenticeships at BT, shares this list of resources for identifying deprived postcodes to help businesses tailor their recruitment efforts for a more inclusive socially mobile workforce; with all the benefits that come with it.
English disadvantage postcode list
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uplift-factors-and-postcode-files
Contains a file of all postcodes that attract disadvantaged funding.
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation
Use file “Postcode to WIMD rank lookup” which ranks all Welsh postcodes.
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/SIMD
Use file “SIMD rank to quintile, decile, vigintile” under Look-up files (xlsx files) section. This is similar to the Welsh data and ranks all Scottish postcodes.
Northern Irish Multiple Deprivation Measure
https://deprivation.nisra.gov.uk/
Search facility to lookup NI postcodes one at a time.