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Medway
Dartford
Gravesham
Thanet
Swale
Sevenoaks
Tonbridge
& Malling
Canterbury
Maidstone
SWALE
The borough of Swale is named after The Swale, a
narrow channel that separates mainland Kent from
the Isle of Sheppey. There are four main towns in the
borough, Faversham, Sittingbourne, Sheerness and
Queenborough. The southern half of the borough
largely lies in a Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty. Swale had the second highest number of live
births in 2020 behind Medway. Swale has the smallest
BAME community after Dover at 3.4%. Swale is the
second most deprived district in Kent behind Thanet.
The most deprived wards are Sheerness East, Murston
and Leysdown and Warden (IMD, 2019).
Tunbridge
Wells
Dover
Ashford
Folkestone
& Hythe
The southern half of the borough largely
lies in a Kent Downs Area
of Outstanding Natural
Beauty
Swale is the second most deprived district in Kent
DEMOGRAPHICS
PRIORITY AREAS OF NEED
Resident population of 151,000.
1. Tackling child poverty to improve life chances.
Swale has the highest volume of children living in lowincome families and second ranking proportionally after
Thanet.
270,000
260,000
278,556
280,000
The most deprived area in Kent according to the Income
Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) is within
the Sheerness ward in Swale with a score of 0.54 which
equates to 54% of children in that area living in income
deprived families.133
250,000
240,000
230,000
220,000
The Family Food Bank issued 12,315 food boxes to
families in crisis across Kent in 2020, compared with
4400 in 2019 (almost a threefold increase). These food
boxes are equivalent to 172 tonnes (73 tonnes in 2019)
of food providing over 410,500 (173,800 in 2019) meals.
This amount of food has the equivalent retail value of
£298,000.134
210,000
200,000
190,000
NEEDS ANALYSIS
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113,300
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160,000
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170,000
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180,000
2. Inclusive support in the community for children
and young people with Special Educational Needs
(SEN)
Swale has a higher than usual number of children with
Swale has the highest number
Medway (1,147)
