Conference:

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Conference

• Regeneration.
• Economic Inclusion.
• Cohesion.

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Regeneration. Economic Inclusion. Cohesion.

• Joy Warmington
• (bRAP)
• Adrian Passmore
• (RegenWM)

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Regeneration. Economic Inclusion. Cohesion.

• Ted Cantle
• (Institute of Community Cohesion)

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• Community cohesion
• Regeneration and Change

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• Ted Cantle
• Associate Director, IDeA
• Professor, Institute of Community Cohesion
  (iCoCo)

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• After the Commission
• A consolidation acceptance of conceptual
  framework
• Evidential test met what works
• Political test met issue top of the priority
  list and accepted by people in general, and many
  agencies.

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• .and before the Commission
• 100 LAs with community cohesion officers,
  members, and strategies
• Inspection regime in place CAA, LAAs etc
• New school duty (and ofsted role)
• Many partnerships signed up
• Housing in the vanguard

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• .and new framework
• Not at odds with previous work, eg on equalities
  
• Development of international interest, all facing
  multiculturalism debate
• Euro Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008
• Supportive academic work, eg contact theory

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• Recognition of a changing world, population
  movement and churn
• In 1965 75m people lived outside the home
  country, now 180m
• 25m tourists to UK, millions from UK to global
  destinations
• Globalisation in many forms international
  students, brands, internet etc.
• And neighbourhood churn impact on regeneration

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• And the era of super diversity
• 300 languages in London schools 71 in 1 60 in
  Middlesbrough
• Faith as an aspect of diversity
• But age, sexual orientation,
• travellers all difference

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• A set of new typologies
• Rural and urban various configurations,
  reinforces inclusiveness of difference
• Violent Extremism not included?
• But avoid typecasting areas?

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• Settlement not presently well-managed
• Managed migration in economic terms but little
  attention to social community
• Resources conflicts are real and data limited
• Structural social segregation
• National benefits, but local expenditures
• A New Agency proposed by the CIC

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• A new identity challenge
• From fewer identifiable groups struggling to
  maintain heritage
• To larger number of diaspora identities which
  compete with national identity
• Premium on difference, little investment in
  commonalities Limited shared experiences
  values
• Focus on Britishness and citizenship (again,
  CIC recommendations)

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• Recognising the complexity
• Managing the interfaces
• Between and within BME communities White
  rivalries continue
• Conflict resolution and prevention
• Continuing with equalities programmes and
• Developing new agenda civil renewal, social
  capital, place-making, Respect etc.

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• Recognising the complexity
• Managing the interfaces
• New definition to include rights and
  responsibilities
• And developing trust in local institutions
• Role of social capital and apparent threat to
  it
• CIC response- citizenship week, volunteering,
  emphasis on schools, eg twinning

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• How does regeneration respond to new
  multi-culturalism?
• In terms of understanding changing popn dynamics
• And social and psychological needs, including
  identity
• Whether our multicultural model focussed on
  difference not commonalties
• Tackling poverty and disadvantage and need to
  change attitudes values

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• The local challenge of cohesion
• Need to break down segregated communities fear
  of difference
• CIC emphasises social segregation
• New emphasis on place making and local
  citizenship ie where you are, not where you
  are from
• And create a sense of belonging

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• The role of Regeneration
• Understanding impacts of regeneration race
  equality and community cohesion impact assessment
• Avoiding competition between communities
• Creating overall strategy which is open and
  transparent
• But also using regeneration processes to unite
  communities, encourage interaction
• Building sustainable social capital and civil
  society

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• Developing mixed communities
• Planning mixed communities existing areas new
  developments
• Not just about tenure or facilities
• Catering for social psychological needs
  understanding social capital
• Developing shared spaces leisure, shopping,
  libraries, sports, arts, festivals
• External internal spaces

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• Understanding our communities
• Mapping community dynamics change in number
  settlement patterns the data problem
• Understanding perceptions realities
• Anticipating disaffection tensions
• Community leaders gateways or gatekeepers
• Structural changes funding regimes to encourage
  people organisations to co-operate

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• Linking with other work across communities
• Examples such as school twinning, sports arts
  programmes, inter-faith networks, youth projects
• All help to create shared experiences, shared
  spaces, to develop understanding, trust shared
  values

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• Building partnerships
• Creating diversity advantage creative and
  entrepreneurial cities
• Local employers
• Local celebrities role models e.g. sports
  personalities
• Public private sector agencies
• Values, symbols celebrations

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• Local authorities and partners community
  leadership
• Manage additional population services needed
  identity issues
• Manage population churn
• Respond to resource needs in schools, health
  housing
• Manage settlement of new communities work with
  existing residents
• Plan new communities and regenerate existing in
  new way
• Prevent manage conflicts disputes Tension
  monitoring

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• As well as
• Cope with extremism of all descriptions
• Provide a sense of belonging
• Initiate cross-cultural programmes
• Understand social capital bridging
  relationships between communities
• Leadership for partners bring together programmes
• Requires vision political will (not available
  free with every copy of CIC report, but it helps!)

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• Ted.cantle_at_idea.gov.uk
• Book Community cohesion a new framework for
  race and cohesion, published by Palgrave Macmillan

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Regeneration. Economic Inclusion. Cohesion.

• Vincent Wang
• (Commission for Racial Equality)

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Introduction and Context

• Why we launched the investigation
• The nature of the investigation
• Terms of reference
• Race equality duty

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Methodology

• Call for Evidence
• Questionnaire
• Stakeholder Meetings
• Case Studies

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Key challenges

• Understanding why it is important to get it right
• Equality outcomes for regeneration
• Including all sections of the community

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Investigation findings

• Vision and leadership
• Promoting racial equality through regeneration
• Partnerships and procurement
• Measuring outcomes
• Audit and inspection

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Vision and leadership

• Local authority level (senior officers and
  councillors)
• Regional Development Agencies
• National government

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Promoting racial equality through regeneration

• Race equality impact assessment
• Ethnic monitoring and data collection
• Community engagement
• Training

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Partnerships and procurement

• Local strategic partnerships
• Procurement
• Publicly funded regeneration companies

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Measuring outcomes

• Ethnic monitoring
• Measuring outcomes

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Audit and inspection

• Inspectorates and the race equality duty
• Risk based assessment
• The equality standard

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Taking the recommendations forward

• Regeneration practitioners
• National government and national regeneration
  agencies
• The equality and human rights commission

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The report is available to download
http//www.cre.gov.uk/about/regeneration.html
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Regeneration. Economic Inclusion. Cohesion.

• Gerry Dawson
• (Urban Living)

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Gerry Dawson

• Chief Executive
• Urban Living
• Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder

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13 - 14th August 1969
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14 -15th August 1969
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15th August 1969
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Bombay Street, 1970s
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Bombay Street, 1982
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Bombay Street Rebuilt (Today)
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Bombay Street Rebuilt (Today)
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Bombay Street Rebuilt (Today)
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Bombay Street Rebuilt (Today)
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The other side of Bombay Street (Today)
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Bombay Street Lessons
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1.

• The extreme opposite
• of Community Cohesion
• is Societal Breakdown

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2.

• The less cohesive a community becomes, the more
  difficult it is to demolish the barriers

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3.

• Community cohesion is (first second and third)
  about relationships

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4.

• Relationships take a long time to build they
  take even longer to rebuild

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5.

• The State has a critical (and proactive) role to
  play in promoting community cohesion.
• Failure to do so carries with it a potentially
  enormous social economic cost.

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Community CohesionFirst Steps done a

• Basics
• Systems of measurement
• Assuring project conformance
• Governance
• Small stand-alone projects
• Strategic/ operational alignment

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Community CohesionPlans

• A more reflective workforce
• Commissioning procurement
• Enhanced accountability/ transparency in
  processes
• Improved communication around regeneration
  projects

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Community CohesionParadoxes

• Two Paradigms
• Humility the Audit Commission
• Risk

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Community CohesionParadox resolutions

• Two Paradigms
• Humility the Audit Commission
• Risk

• Nike paradigm!
• To heck with the Audit Commission
• Were a Pathfinder...

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Community Cohesion(more interesting) Plans

• Giving away the glory
• Developing projects aimed at enhancing
  relationships
• How is more important than What
• Just doing it...

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Regeneration. Economic Inclusion. Cohesion.

• Sarabjeet Soar
• (West Midlands
• Minority Ethnic Business Forum)

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Conference RegenerationEconomic
InclusionCohesion

• Sarabjeet Soar
• 2nd October 2007

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TO WHAT EXTENT DO MINORITY ETHNIC BUSINESSES
BENEFIT FROM REGENERATION?

• Summary

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Aim of Study

• The purpose of the study was to inform the
  review of regional strategies underway especially
  the WM Regional Economic Strategy, the Spatial
  Strategy revision and improve the interventions
  for the delivery of the strategies such as Zones,
  the Regional Business Link, Corridors and
  Clusters.

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Methodology

• Desk research into the current polices and
  strategies
• Literature Review on the state of the BME
  Business sector
• Surveys (Supply and Demand Side)
• Interviews
• Workshop with Business Support Agencies

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Structure

• Literature, Policy and Strategy Review
• Demand Side
• Supply Side
• Good Practice Models
• Conclusions
• Recommendations

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Context of Research

• Asian minorities higher levels of self
  employment. Black African and Caribbean
  increasing.
• BME Businesses in areas of high deprivation
• Generally deprived but tentative move from low to
  high value activities
• Strategies at the national level have a strong
  policy focus on addressing inclusion

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Context of Research

• National guidance strong for regional strategies
  in relation to consultation, participation and
  representation.
• WMRES strategic intent in supporting BME Business
  
• WMRSS is not adhering to the guidance
• Sub-regional and local strategies do not reflect
  the WMRES

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Supply Side

• The key organisations involved in physical
  regeneration and economic development do not go
  beyond the stated intent or objective of
  inclusion.
• Little monitoring of impact
• No barriers to engagement-who to contact
• LDFs slow in development

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Demand Side

• BME Business support agencies are not resourced
  in terms of capacity and capability to make a
  contribution to regional strategies.
• Low level of knowledge of regeneration especially
  spatial planning
• The Black Country Ethnic Business organisation
  model is more mainstream and inclusive
• LDFs are important and should not become another
  missed opportunity.

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Good Practice

• US has strong legislation and compliance
  requirements the support is effective and forms a
  meaningful way of mainstreaming communities into
  the economy.
• EU countries only beginning to value BME
  Business, networks are developing,
• The UK in between US and EU, where although
  supported by legislation but weakness is
  compliance.

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Main Conclusions

• Strong national agenda in terms of strategy and
  guidance for regional engagement
• WMRSS development does not adhere to national
  guidance on engagement
• The WMRSS does not recognise significant
  demographic changes which affects elements of the
  strategy such as the movement and concentration
  of ethnic communities
• Sub regional bodies promote enterprise but not
  BME business specifically.

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Main Conclusions

• The Forum is a key mechanism to provide a
  platform of engagement between the supply and
  demand sides.
• The Forum to take up the sub-regional and wider
  regional advocacy using this research
• Local authorities working with Local business
  support networks needs to be strengthened
• Business Link could also be a valuable partner in
  developing agency networks where there are gaps

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Key Recommendations

• The Forum, through the WM Business Council, could
  achieve influence and lobbying at the West
  Midlands Assembly
• During the course of this study, a positive
  relationship has been developed with the Regional
  Assembly Secretariat
• It is clear that there is a lack of public sector
  leadership on this issue. The Forum should
  develop with AWM a mainstreaming guidance
  package

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Key Recommendations

• New communities could have great effect on
  spatial and economic growth.
• The Centres of Expertise should be a repository
  of this research - the Forum should use to
  promote its work.
• The LAs need to recognise the impact of planning
  decisions on local businesses.
• LAs need to keep local BME businesses informed
  about the progress of LDPs.

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Regeneration. Economic Inclusion. Cohesion.

• Derrick Campbell
• (Race Equality Sandwell)

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The Effect of Economic Migration on Communities

• BY
• Dr. DERRICK CAMPBELL
• CEO of Race Equality Sandwell National Advisor
  on the Criminal Use of Guns, Knives and Gangs.

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Britain's Statistics!

• Size 83,698 sq miles 216,777 sq km.
• Coastline 12,429 km.
• Climate temperate moderated by prevailing
  southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current
  more than one-half of the days are overcast.
• Terrain mostly rugged hills and low mountains
  level to rolling plains in east and southeast.
• Natural resources coal, petroleum, natural gas,
  iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt,
  clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate,
  arable land.
• Natural hazards winter windstorms floods.

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POPULATION

• Population 60,776,238 (July 2007 est.)
• Age structure 0-14 years 17.2 (male
  5,349,053/female 5,095,837) 15-64 years 67
  (male 20,605,031/female 20,104,313) 65 years and
  over 15.8 (male 4,123,464/female 5,498,540)
  (2007 est.).
• Median age total 39.6 years male 38.5 years
  female 40.7 years (2007 est.)
• Population growth rate 0.275 (2007 est.)
• Birth rate 10.67 births/1,000 population (2007
  est.)
• Death rate 10.09 deaths/1,000 population (2007
  est.)
• Net migration rate 2.17 migrant(s)/1,000
  population (2007 est.)
• Life expectancy at birth total population 78.7
  years male 76.23 years female 81.3 years (2007
  est.)

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Ethnicity?

• Ethnic groups white (of which English 83.6,
  Scottish 8.6, Welsh 4.9, Northern Irish 2.9)
  92.1, black 2, Indian 1.8, Pakistani 1.3,
  mixed 1.2, other 1.6 (2001 census).
• Religions Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic,
  Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6, Muslim 2.7,
  Hindu 1, other 1.6, unspecified or none 23.1
  (2001 census)

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LANGUAGES

• Languages English, Welsh (about 26 of the
  population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic
  (about 60,000 in Scotland) At least three
  million people living in the United Kingdom were
  born in countries where English is not the
  national language.
• In London alone there is 7.6 million people with
  over 300 different languages spoken.

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EMPLOYMENT

• Labour Force 31.1 million (2006 est.)
• Unemployment rate 2.9 (2006 est.)

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Thank You!