The Effectiveness of Local and National Policies to promote BME Achievement David Williams

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The Effectiveness of Local and National Policies
to promote BME Achievement- David Williams
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CLG Approach

• Our work to promote BME attainment has three main
  strands
• Leading cross-government work on race equality
• Working with the Third Sector to support delivery
  of race equality
• Delivering targeted projects on key issues

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Leading cross-government work on race equality

• CLG leads the Governments cross-departmental
  strategy to improve race equality and community
  cohesion, Improving Opportunity, Strengthening
  Society
• CLG leads the strategy, bringing together the
  Government departments responsible for delivery
  and co-ordinating the comprehensive annual
  progress report and accompanying statistics pack
  - individual departments lead specific
  workstreams (e.g. DCSF lead work on education,
  DWP lead on work on employment).
• Each year a comprehensive progress report is
  published setting out what has been achieved,
  what remains to be done and Governments next
  steps

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Working with the Third Sector

• Under its Connecting Communities Plus Programme
  (CC Plus) CLG funds 11 strategic partners,
  national voluntary organisations, to help us
  deliver our cross-government race equality and
  community cohesion strategy Improving
  Opportunity, Strengthening Society strategy.
  Funding totals 18million over three years from
  2006-09.
• Of these strategic partners, we are supporting
  BTEG, the Windsor Fellowship, PATH National and
  Black Boys Can to take forward work to increase
  attainment amongst BME Groups. These partners are
  working to improve attainment in differing,
  complimentary ways.
• CLG also funds a range of small-scale community
  projects under CC Plus, some of which include
  education based projects.

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Targeted projects REACH

• CLG leads REACH, the Governments flagship
  project to raise the aspirations and achievement
  of Black boys and young men
• The project was commissioned by the Government as
  successor to the Home Offices Lawrence Steering
  Group and the Race Equality Advisory Panel
• The Government brought together the REACH project
  group - comprising 25 independent experts and
  practitioners to deliver the REACH Report
  setting out 5 evidence based recommendations
  that will influence policy-making across
  Whitehall
• The REACH Report was published in August 2007
  and the Governments Response setting out how we
  would take forward its recommendations was
  published in December 2007

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Conclusion

• To ensure national policies increase BME
  attainment are effective it is important that we
• - join up the work underway across Government
• - identify cross-cutting responses to key
  issues (e.g. REACH)
• We are using Public Service Agreement
  arrangements to monitor and drive progress.