NAVCA DIVERSITY CHALLENGE IN LAAS

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NAVCADIVERSITY CHALLENGE IN LAAS

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WHAT ARE THEY AND WHY SHOULD PEOPLE BE INVOLVED?

• Complex and involve understanding of government
  local, regional and central
• Whats in it for communities BME communities
  relatively poor and disenfranchised (local
  authority members and chief officers?)
• Whats their aim?

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WHY

• Ethnic minority consumers have significant
  disposable incomes and by 2011 that total will be
  as much as 300 billion. In certain sectors
  ethnic minority consumers tend to spend more per
  head than the national average, for example,
  Black and Asian consumers spend 44 more on
  clothing per month than White consumers.
• Black and Asian consumers are also estimated to
  earn up to 156 billion after tax income, with
  young men being the bigger consumers and spending
  32 billion every year

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TUC Wednesday October 17, 2007 128 AM

• 3.8 million children in the UK are living in
  poverty. Child poverty costs 40 billion a year,
  or 2,500 for every family in the UK
• The problem costs 40 billion a year because of
  increased crime, extra public spending and lost
  economic productivity.
• CRE
• Rates of child poverty are particularly high
  among children of African (56), Pakistani (60)
  and Bangladeshi (72) origin, compared with a
  rate of 25 for white children

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Young Black people in the Criminal Justice system

• Black African and Caribbean groups make up
  approximately 2.5 times as high a proportion of
  the population in the most deprived areas of the
  country as for England as a whole.
• 80 of Black African and Caribbean communities
  live in Neighbourhood Renewal Fund areas, those
  identified as Englands most deprived areas.

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REACH report

• PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated the potential
  economic benefit of removing the underachievement
  of Black boys and young Black men at about 808
  million a year.
• The major components of the estimates are the
  costs associated with over-representation in the
  Criminal Justice System and reduced gross
  earnings and taxes associated with educational
  underachievement.
• The costs, if they continue over the next 50
  years without any change, would amount to
  approximately 24bn.

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WHY?

• Slavery and colonialism have built modern Britain
• BME communities called in again after the war to
  rebuild Britain
• NHS built by migrant Black workers
• 40 of all doctors, dentists and nurses in London
  are Black
• Olympic 2012 winning bid gold medals 9/14
  since 1988
• Yet BME communities live in the poorest areas
• Mastermind 2005 - Shaun Wallace
• The Apprentice 2005 - Tim Campbell
• Miss England Hammasa Kohistani
• Amjad Hussain Rear Admiral Royal Navy
• Amir Khan UKs brightest boxing talent in years
• Monty Panesar, Lewis Hamilton
• Most widely eaten food in the UK is curry
• Music
• Fashion
• .., to be continued..,

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WHY

• The economic contribution of the Black and
  Minority Ethnic communities is undervalued and
  this substantial resource must be harnessed to
  stimulate greater economic justice. The vision of
  EQUANOMICS UK provides the stimulus and pivot to
  enable organisations to engage collaboratively in
  more progressive discourse on race equality in
  the UK. It is an exciting and challenging
  initiative which I welcome."
• Lord Herman Ouseley

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WHAT

• To initiate a UK wide community led forum for
  economic analysis and change in Race Equality in
  the UK.

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HOW

• 10 (at least City Economic Action Teams)
• Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Leicester,
  Liverpool, London, Nottingham, Manchester,
  Sheffield
• UK board (reps from each city plus experts from
  private, public and voluntary sector)
• Annual Conference to set strategic priorities
  and agree annual report

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Civic Training Programmes

• CJS
• Housing and regeneration
• Education
• Employment and benefits
• Political representation
• Health
• Leisure and recreation

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Research and briefings

• Quantifying race (in) equality,
• Assessing proposals for community wide change
  
• Analysing trends of the Black and Minority Ethnic
  communities economic power in the UK.

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HOW

• Financial literacy programmes managing credit and
  debt, investing in stocks and bonds and
  understanding the financial markets, preparing
  for home ownership, property investment, personal
  and small business money management, budgeting
  and financial planning, etc.

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Shareholder Action Programmes

• The purchase of shares in top listed companies,
• Dialogues with private and public sector bodies
  to assist in delivering on race equality.
• As shareholders, Equanomics will use this
  leverage to advocate for race equality practices
  in the internal and external practices of Public
  and private sector companies - e.g,
  representation at all employee, board and
  committee levels procurement practices, services
  and products targeting Black and Minority Ethnic
  communities

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Monitor public policy and parliamentary
legislation

• The REACH report - An independent report to
  Government on raising the aspirations and
  attainment of Black boys and young Black men
• Young Black People in the Criminal Justice System
  House of Commons Home Affairs Committee 2007
• A lot done, A Lot To Do CRE legacy report
  2007-09-25
• A Framework for Fairness green paper for the
  Single Equality Act
• Our Shared Future report of the Commission on
  Integration and Cohesion
• Fairness and Freedom The final report of the
   Equality Review
• The Equalities and Human Rights Commission

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Promoting the business imperative in tackling
race equality

• Compliance with the Race Relations (Amendment)
  Act, Companies Act 2006
• Encourage business initiatives emerging from the
  World Conference Against Racism and Kofi Annan
  who launched the UN global compact
  (www.unglobalcompact.com).

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Equanomics depends on the local

• Local
• Regional
• National

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Tour Summary..

• 11,000 in audiences
• 1,100 miles
• 9 cities in 6 days
• 35 events
• 100s of press interviews
• Diary, photos

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Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.,

• Equanomics UK offers a completely
• innovative approach to achieving race
• equality in Britain. It combines grass
• roots organizing, with work with the
• voluntary, business, government, and
• elite sectors That is why I, and
• Rainbow PUSH Coalition U.S., chose
• to help launch Equanomics during our
• nine-city UK tour in August 07, and
• why we selected Equanomics as our
• UK affiliate. We look forward to
• working with Equanomics as they
• build a new Equa-nomics-based
• Social movement to eradicate poverty
• and achieve racial equality.