The council’s Adult Social Care Plan report sets out measures to reduce health inequalities and support a growing elderly population. Figures in the report show average life expectancy varies by more than a decade if inner-city areas like Burmantofts and Richmond Hill are compared to Adel and Wharfedale. Rising poverty means 186,000 people in Leeds live in the ten per cent most deprived neighbourhoods nationally, an increase of 20,000 since 2015. The report said: “Health inequalities have become... Read this story
