1. Bristol Manifesto for Race Equality
Getting Race Equality High on the Agenda
16th January 2017
10:00 to 14:00
Rose Green Centre
65 Gordon Road
Whitehall

2. Elected Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees
Cabinet Lead for Neighbourhoods Asher Craig
Open 2

3. Elected Chair of Manifesto Steering Group of Bristol Sumita Hutchison3

4. Purpose and context of today
Awareness
Effectiveness
Unity 4

5. Elected Vice Chairs of Manifesto Steering Group of Bristol Alex Raikes and Monira Chowdhury
Update on work of the Steering Group 5

6. Director of Neighbourhoods Alison Comley
Director of Education and Skills Paul Jacobs
Update from Manifesto for Race Equality Strategic Leaders 6

7. Alison Comley
Bristol City Council
Chair

8. Where have we come from ?
• One outcome of the leadership event in April 2015
• Commitment to work collectively on the issues
• Working on the principles of doing a few things well
• In it for the long haul

9. Who are we ?
Initially Council, Clinical Commissioning Group, Mental Health Trust, UWE & Police & Crime Commissioner
Grown to include Operational policing, Bristol University, North Bristol Trust, UHB, Bristol Community Health, Ambulance service
Fire service poised to join
2 members of the Manifesto Steering Group

10. What have we done ? - Education
Agreed some joint priorities to work on collectively initially :
- Recruitment, retention & promotion
- Education  

11. Public Sector Employment Data
Andrew Mallin
Bristol City Council

12. First ever City-wide Ethnicity data picture for Bristol *
40,000 staff from 11 public agencies – (City only)
Measuring agency data against the City population
Data on ethnicity, pay, sickness, disciplinary & grievance
Process for Annual production to evidence trends

13. 449,300 45 187 91 population 10.8% (43,900) since 2005 religions
countries of birth
main languages
449,300 45
187 91
* Data accessed from ONS 2015 Mid-Year Population Estimate

16. Bristol – City wide Context
16 % Black or Ethnic Minority Population (up from only 8.2% in 2001)
22% of population identify as ‘Non White British’
78% of population identify as ‘White British’ (down from 88% in 2001)
(there has been a significant increase in ‘White Other’)
15% of population were not born in the UK
Age profile of BME population is much younger than Bristol population as a whole
Ages 0 – % BME
Ages 16 – % BME
Over % BME

22. Bristol Community Health
Julia Clarke
Bristol Community Health

23. Paul Jacobs Service Director, Education Bristol City Council

24. Education Securing commitment through Learning City
Improved data analysis for LA and schools
Working with Teaching Schools – Specialist Leaders in Education, action research, BME leadership development
Working with Universities to access research capacity and widening participation activity
Recruitment & Retention Task Group

25. Education Set up a Race Equality Steering Group
Pilot Race Equality ‘toolkit’ for schools
Recruit and support more BME governors
Develop community engagement

26. Where next ? Impacts of the criminal justice system
Linking into the work placement initiative through Learning City
Development of Talent Pool initiative – Inclusive not Exclusive
Linking across to business sector
What do you think ?

27. Q & A

28. Q and A with Bristol Manifesto for Race Equality Strategic Leaders
Need a roving Microphone

29. Manifesto for Race Equality Steering Group member Kamaljit Poonia
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30. Workshop - Priorities Need a roving Microphone
Workshop discussion - 30 mins
Workshop Feedback - top 3 points (3 mins each)
Need a roving Microphone

31. Voscur and a member of the Steering group - Ruth Pitter
Member of the Steering Group and on the Womens’s Commission - Kalpna Woolfe
Chair of the Women’s Commission - Alison Comley
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32. Panel interview with the Women’s Commission
Ruth to interview Alison and Kalpna
Need a roving Microphone

33. Workshop: Becoming a Commission
Workshop discussion
Workshop Feedback

34. Sumita Hutchison
Next steps
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35. Cabinet Lead for Neighbourhoods Asher Craig
Closing remarks
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