Key Message: CERI provides an additional lens to identify communities that may be at greater risk of exclusion and less resilient to economic, social or service-related shocks.
Question answered: Which rural communities may face greater exclusion risk and have fewer routes to recovery?
CERI combines measures relating to Digital Exclusion, Transport Exclusion, Social Exclusion, Employment Exclusion, alongside wider factors relating to health, housing, skills and access to healthy assets
Explores Hidden Rural Disadvantage
Provides an additional lens beyond deprivation
Many identify communities not highlighted through traditional deprivation measures alone
Generating national interest and emerging academic partnerships