The Marmot Principles have been adopted by all five local authorities and the area’s Aneurin Bevan University Health Board as a way of guiding how they work with communities and to address deep rooted poverty evident in many areas. Torfaen Borough Council chief executive Stephen Vickers, who also holds the same post at neighbouring Blaenau Gwent, told councillors: “The principle of Marmot is you can’t tackle inequality alone. “We know we’ve got a housing crisis in the borough, across Wales and the UK. According to the Institute of Health Equity a Marmot Place recognises the conditions in which people are born, live and work and their age determine health inequalities and they will take action to reduce inequalities to improve health. He said: “They don’t need to know what Marmot is.”The Marmot Principles date back to a 2010 report on health inequalities in England by Professor Michael Marmot.