The data, reports and publications referenced throughout the Regeneration proposal, grouped by theme. Sources are cited as published; domain references are listed where a direct link is not available.
East Sussex County Council, Indices of Deprivation 2025 by district — Hastings' rank, LSOA deciles and neighbourhood rankings.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Source: gov.uk
ONS, Census 2021, and Hastings and Rother Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment 2024 — household numbers and social grade.
Source: ons.gov.uk
East Sussex in Figures, earnings and income briefing — local wage data.
Source: eastsussexinfigures.org.uk
Get Sussex Working Plan, 2025 — adult skills levels.
Source: eastsussex.gov.uk
Department for Education, "New missions to transform childhoods of most disadvantaged", May 2026 — Attainment 8 scores for disadvantaged Hastings pupils, and the Mission Coastal announcement.
Source: gov.uk
Department for Education, Secondary accountability measures: Progress 8 and Attainment 8 — definition and grade conversion.
Source: gov.uk
Education Policy Institute, Annual Report 2026: Regional Gaps — the South East disadvantage gap.
Source: epi.org.uk
Education Policy Institute, Annual Report 2026: Disadvantage — how the gap compounds, the post-16 gap, and Year 12 participation.
Source: epi.org.uk
Joint Council for Qualifications and FFT Education Datalab, 20 August 2026 — 2026 GCSE results, regional breakdown, resit entries and vocational results.
Source: ffteducationdatalab.org.uk
FE News, results day 2026 — post-16 resit pass rates.
Source: fenews.co.uk
Department for Education, 16–18 destination measures — Hastings school leaver destinations.
Source: gov.uk
Department for Education, Key Stage 4 performance data and Compare School Performance.
Source: gov.uk
Sussex Learning Network, Profile of the Working Class in Sussex (2019) — free school meals and HE participation by ward.
Source: sussexlearningnetwork.org
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, Digital Marketer (Integrated Degree), Level 6, standard ST0481.
Source: instituteforapprenticeships.org
Department for Education, Apprenticeships: Explore Education Statistics — starts by local authority district, age and level.
Department for Education, Widening participation in higher education.
Student Loans Company / GOV.UK, Student loans in England, financial year 2025-26 — average balance entering repayment.
Source: gov.uk
House of Commons Library, Student loan statistics — repayment terms.
Source: commonslibrary.parliament.uk
Universities UK, graduate outcomes analysis — graduate and non-graduate employment.
Source: universitiesuk.ac.uk
ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 — national and occupational median pay.
Source: ons.gov.uk
GOV.UK, National Minimum and Living Wage rates, from 1 April 2026.
Source: checkyourpay.campaign.gov.uk
ONS and House of Commons Library, young people not in education, employment or training.
Source: ons.gov.uk
National Audit Office, report on T Levels, March 2025 — programme underspend and take-up.
Source: feweek.co.uk
FE Week, Freedom of Information data from the Department for Education — T Level Employer Support Fund clawback.
Source: feweek.co.uk
Policy Connect, analysis of the NAO report.
Source: policyconnect.org.uk
Curriculum and Assessment Review, final report.
Source: gov.uk
House of Lords Select Committee on Regenerating Seaside Towns, The future of seaside towns, HL Paper 320, April 2019.
Source: committees.parliament.uk
Hansard, House of Lords debate on the report, 1 July 2019.
Source: theyworkforyou.com
Gutierrez-Posada, Kitsos, Nathan and Nuccio, "Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities", Economic Geography 99(1), 2022 — the creative job multiplier.
Source: tandfonline.com
The Brighton Fuse — AHRC, University of Brighton, University of Sussex, Wired Sussex and NCUB.
Source: brightonfuse.com
University of Dundee, Abertay University and InGAME — the Dundee games cluster.
Source: dundee.ac.uk
University of Warwick and Coventry University, Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 evaluation; and administrators' reports on Coventry City of Culture Trust, 2023–25.
Source: artsprofessional.co.uk
Tate St Ives; De La Warr Pavilion; Turner Contemporary and Visit Kent; Folkestone Creative Quarter — visitor and economic impact data.
Source: tate.org.uk
Brook, O'Brien and Taylor, Panic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries, AHRC, 2018 — unpaid work in the creative sector.
Source: arts council / AHRC
Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, Getting in and getting on (2020); Sutton Trust, A Class Act (2024).
Source: pec.ac.uk
New Economics Foundation, Local Multiplier 3 (LM3) methodology.
Source: neweconomics.org
Hastings Borough Council, local creative and cultural multiplier.
Source: hastings.gov.uk
Locate East Sussex — creative sector employment in Hastings.
Source: locateeastsussex.org
ONS, Business Demography and Business Population Estimates.
Source: ons.gov.uk
Ipsos with Professor Mark Ritson, Marketing Anchors (2026) — marketing capability benchmarking.
Source: ipsos.com