The Fox Hollies Neighbourhood Forum held a public meeting last night. The major agenda items were: 1)     A presentation by Citysave, Birmingham’s largest Credit Union: Citysave was set up in 1987 and has 10,000 members, who own it. It lends between £500 and £10,000 (average loan size £870) at a typical rate of 3% per […]

Acocks Green’s Claimant Unemployment level fell to 750 in September. The figure was down 26 on August and down by 282 on a year ago. The level of long term unemployed in the ward bucked the trend; rising by 2 to 300, though it is still well down on the year. Meanwhile, the level of […]

The monthly unadjusted claimant unemployment level in Acocks Green fell by another 24, last month, to 776. This is a rate of 5.9% and represents a fall of 303 over the last year. The number of long term unemployed in the ward now stands at 298 (70 down on the year) and youth unemployment (18-24 […]

The latest monthly  unemployment figures in Acocks Green show a fall in the claimant count of 29 to 800. This is down 291 on a year ago and represents a claimant level of 6.1%. Across Birmingham the seasonally adjusted claimant level fell by 744 to 36,201, a rate of 7.5%. Nationally the claimant level now […]

Last month, unemployment fell significantly for the third month in a row in Acocks Green. In June the unadjusted claimant count fell by 47 (making a three month fall of 139) to 828, which is 286 down on a year ago. The level of youth claimants was up 1 to 202; hopefully no more than […]

Unemployment fell significantly in Acocks Green last month. The May unadjusted claimant count fell by 55 (making a two months fall of 92) to 875, the lowest for over 5 years. There was a particularly big fall in youth claimants – down 23 to 201 in the month (making a very welcome two month fall […]

Another month of improving unemployment figures published this month. Acocks Green’s unadjusted unemployment benefit count fell by 37 in April to 930. This is 247 down on a year ago. The long term unemployed figure is 336 (down 7 on the month) and the youth unemployment figure is 224 (down 15 on the month). Across […]

Ok, we are now in May, but the publication of the Birmingham ward unemployment data was delayed until this week by the Easter holidays. So here are the April figures. Thankfully, March’s rise in Acocks Green’s unemployment claimant figures, proved to be just a blip and the long term fall resumed in April, with a […]

UK Unemployment continued its steady fall last month. The seasonally adjusted unemployment benefit count fell 34,600 for the UK to 1.174,800 (3.7%). It fell 3,300 in the West Midlands to 125,100 (4.7%) and by 1,086 to 40,866 (9.0%) in Birmingham, where it has been falling for two years now. While the unadjusted unemployment claimant rate […]

Unemployment continued its fall last month with national seasonally adjusted claimant unemployment falling by 27,600 to 1,215,700. In Birmingham it fell by 244 to 41,952. Seasonal adjustment of the figures takes into account the fact that unemployment normally falls in some months (such as November and December with temporary Christmas jobs available) and rises in […]