Our Shared Future The Commission on Integration and Cohesion

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Our Shared Future The Commission on Integration
and Cohesion
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Set-up and purpose

• A fixed-term independent advisory body Chaired
  by Darra Singh, Chief Executive of Ealing Council
  
• Populated with local experts in fields relating
  to cohesion
• Tasked with developing a set of practical
  recommendations for building integration and
  cohesion at a local level.

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Why is this important?

• The make-up of local communities is changing
• The pace of change has increased
• Concern about fairness and immigration
• Extremism
• Identity
• Complex and localised
• All about place All about local leadership

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Peterborough History

• Designated Dispersal Area 2001
• Increased Numbers
• Refugee Communities
• Migrant Population
• Limited Awareness
• Limited Resources

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Setting up New Link

• Multi agency approach
• Peterborough City Council, Police Health
• Invest to Save

Cost Reductions

• Interpreting Translation
• Joined up approach
• Reduce tension

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Challenges for Communities

• Effects on local residents
• Understanding new communities
• Relations between communities
• Relations within communities
• Effects on local services
• Impact on cohesion, and mediation

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Community Groups
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Commission on Integration and Cohesion best
practice

• Factors common to examples of good practice
• Projects that encourage shared activities, with a
  common goal that brings people together whatever
  their background.
• Projects delivered by creative and effective
  partnerships, of Local Authorities and Third
  Sector organisations, or of employers and
  communities themselves.
• Practical solutions that capture the imagination
  of local communities, tailored to fit local
  challenges.
• Groups and events that enable meaningful contact
  across groups, facilitated by trusted local
  figures.

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Next Steps

• The Commission has now been disbanded it is
  over to us
• The Government has responded - 50m over next 3
  years
• Individual local Councils considering the report
  and how to take it forward
• The Commission will reconvene in June 2008 to see
  what progress has been made

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.uk