Building Capacity across North West Essex

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Building Capacity across North West Essex East
Hertfordshire

• Phillipa Brent-Isherwood
• 01279 655261
• phillipa.brent-isherwood_at_eastherts.gov.uk
• Tracy Turner
• 01799 510402
• tturner_at_uttlesford.gov.uk

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Content

• Local context
• Other initiatives
• BCE fund
• Elements of our bid
• Early learning
• How you can get involved

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Local context

• Braintree A8 migrant capital of Essex
• Significant employment at Stansted airport
• Braintree, Colchester, Tendring and Uttlesford
  account for over two thirds of migrant worker
  registrations in Essex
• Mainly young adults 18-24 or 25-34
• Polish stall on Saffron Walden market
• Requests for polish language books in libraries

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Local context

• Council services and libraries receiving
  enquiries from Polish Portuguese residents
• Portuguese café in Bishops Stortford
• Stortford highlighted in Mercia research as
  having high presence of migrant workers
• 34 of overseas National Insurance Number
  allocations in Herts to A8 nationals in 2005/06
• Most are young, without dependents, and working
  in low skill, low wage occupations
• Pilot Polish Community Liaison Officer created
  queues in Reception!

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Top ten jobs for A8 migrants in Essex
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Top Jobs for A8 migrants in Hertfordshire
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Other Initiatives

• IDeA
• Audit Commission
• SOLACE
• Institute for Community Cohesion
• Commission for Rural Communities

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BCE Fund

• Strict criteria to meet
• 7 priority themes
• Capturing transferable learning
• Self-sustaining
• 1 year project
• Not duplicating existing work
• Details at www.eera.gov.uk

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Elements of our bid

• Research and consultation
• Welcome pack
• Outreach workers
• Workshops and training
• Linking with CABs
• Diversity Festival
• Diversity Forum
• Disseminating learning and good practice

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Early learning

• Capacity of research organisations
• Information needs centre around housing,
  employment, double taxation
• ESOL
• Polish Community Liaison Officer trusted more
  than the Council
• Faith communities are a key link including on
  LSP

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How you can get involved

• Join the North West Essex East Herts Diversity
  Forum!
• Diversity Festival
• Make contact with outreach workers
• Attend learning events
• Help us identify community leaders
• Lets share learning and good practice tell us
  what you are doing too!

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Any Questions?