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Sheffield Fair City Campaign Sheffield Executive Board 12 November 2014 Alan Walker, Chair, Fairness Commission Amanda Pearce, Director, Diva Sharon Squires,

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1 Sheffield Fair City Campaign Sheffield Executive Board 12 November 2014 Alan Walker, Chair, Fairness Commission Amanda Pearce, Director, Diva Sharon Squires, Director, Sheffield First 1

2 Activity 2 Sheffield Employability Programme Skills Made Easy (apprenticeships) elements of the City Deal Analysis and distribution of health spend on JSNA work programme Physical health of people with mental health problems and with learning disability priority in CCG plans 2014-16 CCG Equalities Action Plan Explicit commitment to tackle the wider determinants of health Citywide Digital Inclusion strategy being developed College commitment that 2.5% of their employees will be apprentices Council looking at how it can increase number of new council homes Identifying hidden carers – strand of Carers Strategy Second Food Strategy for the city being developed Work on effective use of the pupil premium Communications about welfare reform Support to victims Police and Crime Commissioner grants City Wide Learning Body priority to improve communication, engagement, and involvement of parents Progressing Sheffield Housing Company Restorative Justice Outcomes Domestic Abuse Strategic Review implemented Continued implementation of 20mph limits Voluntary Bus Partnership more equitable distribution of bus resources Fair City Campaign Group Work on community resilience

3 What do people know about Inequalities in Sheffield? 3 asked the question: “On average, a girl born in Ecclesall will live around ten years longer than one born in Burngreave. Were you aware of this? “Oh my goodness. That’s terrifying.” “That’s crazy, isn’t it?” “You see that kind of thing between countries. You wouldn’t expect to see that between two different cities or in the same city.”

4 4 Wilkinson & Pickett, The Spirit Level Index of: Life expectancy Math & Literacy Infant mortality Homicides Imprisonment Teenage births Trust Obesity Mental illness – incl. drug & alcohol addiction Social mobility www.equalitytrust.org.uk Health and social problems are worse in more unequal countries Index of health and social problems

5 5 37% of the public believe “most people on the dole are ‘fiddling’” Job Seekers Allowance fraud was 2.6% in 2013/14

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7 Pensions make up more than third of social security spend 7 97% of families with one parent out of work and claiming child benefit have 4 or less children

8 Fairness Commission Recommended A campaign in the city about fairness which has the following aspects: Inform people Promote the case for greater fairness A call to action Communicate what is being done to change things for the better 8


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