OPEn HoUSE

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OPEn HoUSE

• Opportunities for the Procurement of Employment
  iN HOusing for the Under-represented through
  Support and Empowerment
• Project Manager Yasmin Khan

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Context

• Response to identified need across the Housing
  Sector
• Lack of BME staff and contractors
• Inequalities across procurement and tendering
  arrangements within Housing Service Providers

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Who are our partners?

• Tees Valley Housing
• Endeavour Housing
• Talent Resourcing Ltd
• Business Link
• JobCentre Plus
• Connexions Tees Valley

• NECDARE - North East Centre for Diversity and
  Racial Equality
• Middlesbrough Council
• Banks of the Wear
• Middlesbrough BME Network

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Promoting Equality of OpportunityGood Practice /
Approaches / Issues

• Advisory group informing main activity
• Ensure inclusive structures and approaches are
  implemented CULTURAL NEEDS
• Training for DP
• Policies and procedures
• Implementation strategy
• Monitoring and evaluation
• GOOD PRACTICE

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EQUAL Policy Debate

• How can interventions through EQUAL influence
  mainstream policy?

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Sub-regional

• Procurement policies developed and fed into
  bodies such as
• GO-NE
• RDA
• Housing Providers
• Contractors and suppliers

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National

• Regulatory and membership bodies including
• Housing Corporation
• National Housing Federation
• Chartered Institute of Housing

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Transnational

• EU partners
• Portugal
• France
• Austria
• Common working approaches to test race equality
  interventions including video, toolkit, letter of
  diversity, European employment fair etc

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Opportunities Through EQUAL

• Provide a platform to work with BME communities
  to influence policies/procedures through
  innovation to sustain race equality across
  service provision