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Income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI)

Find out what the income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI) is and how it relates to your school's funding.

Last reviewed on 7 August 2024See updates
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Contents
  1. What is the IDACI? 
  2. How does the IDACI relate to school funding? 
  3. Get to grips with the IDACI bands 
  4. Find data for your local areas
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What is the IDACI? 

The income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI) measures the proportion of all children aged 0 to 15 living in income-deprived families in different local areas (called 'lower-layer super output areas', or LSOAs) across England. Each LSOA usually has between 1,000 and 3,000 residents or 400 to 1,200 households. 

Each LSOA gets an IDACI score of between 0 and 1. For example, a score of 0.38 would mean that 38% of children aged 0 to 15 live in income-deprived families in that area. 

The rankings are divided into 6 'bands' that are assigned additional funding (A to F), with LSOAs in band A being the most deprived. Pupils in the least deprived 62.5% of LSOAs (band G) will not be assigned deprivation funding. Read more about the different bands

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