Improving Lives, Closing the Gap: Tackling social Inclusion

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Improving Lives, Closing the GapTackling
social Inclusion health Inequalities in Milton
Keynes

• Milton Keynes
• Local Strategic Partnership

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Milton Keynes Floor targetsWeaknesses
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Milton Keynes Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004
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The Main Determinants of Health
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Milton Keynes expectation of life by ward
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What approaches can we use?

• Person based
• e.g. people elderly living alone
• Settings based
• e.g. schools
• Area based
• e.g. places experiencing multiple disadvantage

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How can we add value?

• Do better with what we have got
• Target the money thats allocated to MK
• Win new money

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Why identify areas of multiple disadvantage?

• To better support the many people living there in
  addressing their needs and wants
• To transform areas so that people are not
  disadvantaged by where they live

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Sustained intervention three broad themes

• Economy skills / learning
• Environment and transport
• Social fabric and services (relevance, quality
  and access)

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Identifying areas for action

• Using Social Atlas identified 20 most deprived
  estates in MK the key problems affecting those
  estates.
• Beanhill, Central MK, Coffee Hall, Conniburrow,
  Eaglestone, Fishermead, Fullers Slade, Granby,
  Greenleys, Hodge Lea, Leadenhall, Neath Hill,
  Netherfield, New Bradwell, Oldbrook, Stacey
  Bushes, Stantonbury, Tinkers Bridge, Water Eaton
  Wolverton.

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Highest priority areas

• Beanhill
• Netherfield
• Coffee Hall
• Granby
• Fishermead

• N Bradville (3 streets)
• Tinkers Bridge (social housing)
• Stantonbury (nr Nr Wood End School)
• Oldbrook (social priority housing)

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Pilot

• Understand the aspirations of the community of
  through dialogue
• Work with residents and local bodies e.g.
  Woughton Parish Council / Woughton Alliance
• Develop a programme with the community its
  representatives
• Seek practical action from wide range of LSP
  members
• Seek and use new funds e.g. LPSA2, SEEDA monies
• Link area renewal and growth

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LSP Year of Social Inclusion

• Aims
• that all LSP members are / become actively
  involved in practical action
• The public of Milton Keynes, particularly people
  who are part of communities most at risk of
  social exclusion / poor health, become more fully
  involved, better equipped and better supported in
  tackling the problems they face.

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Partnership Challenge

• How can your organisation
• influence social inclusion through its role
  within the wider community
• benefit from increasing capacity to deliver
  change.

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Initial programme of events

• LSP workshop - 23 June 2005
• 2) We can do it action on social inclusion and
  health inequalities.
• 10 October 2005 Open University
• 3) Early 2006 larger public event

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We can do it action on social inclusion and
health inequalities

• Speakers
• Messages from Beanhill
• Opportunity for partners to celebrate work they
  are proud of
• Partner challenge to propose something practical
  they might do
• Monday 10 October between 17 30 21 00hrs Open
  University
• Refreshments and Buffet

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Social Inclusion Mini-Bus Tours of MK

• Limited number of places free to those who sign
  up this evening
• Dates will be arranged according to demand

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Contact Details

• For further information on the Year of Social
  Inclusion and to book a poster presentation for
  the October event please contact
• Apple Ivory 01908 252376
• Apple.ivory_at_milton-keynes.gov.uk

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23 June Workshop Aims

• To stimulate LSP members to think about
  practical action
• To involve LSP members in shaping the programme
• To generate ideas

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Task 1

• On your own
• suggest practical actions that you would like to
  see taken to promote social inclusion and /or
  reduce health inequalities.
• Write each suggestion on a new post-it note.

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Task 2

• With your neighbour.
• For each post-it note, decide which of the
  following three categories best describes the
  theme the intervention suggested is intended to
  improve

• Economy skills / learning
• Environment and transport
• Social fabric and services (relevance, quality
  and access)

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Task 3

• As a group
• Develop at least one and no more than three
  practical proposals for tackling social inclusion
  and/or health inequalities that could be
  delivered in an area experiencing multiple
  deprivation.
• What contributions could members of the LSP make
  to these actions?

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Facilitators notes

• Introduce members
• Identify a scribe and rapporteur
• Summarise and clarify the task
• Invite people to look again (if they want to) at
  the post-it notes and comment on what they have
  read
• Focus the group on identifying and fleshing out
  the proposal they want to put to the LSP (in as
  much detail as possible) preferably a proposal
  that would involve at least one member of your
  group in delivering the proposal
• Get suggestions about potential contributions of
  LSP members