Charity Registration No' 221124

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Bristols Right Track Project and the Right
Track National Initiative Tom Blower Patricia
Rodger
Charity Registration No. 221124
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The reasons for Right Track
To reduce the causes and effects of social
injustice, including discrimination, for Black
and Minority Ethnic children and young people.
In particular to reduce their over
-representation in the Youth Justice System.
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What we do at Right Track

• the award-winning Right Track project was
  started in
• 1998 and has worked with approximately 100
  young
• people a year since then
• Right Track offers mentoring support, tier 2
• preventative work with cyp that have
  additional needs,
• family support and outreach work in schools
  and with
• community groups
• originally set up in response to high
• disproportionality in stop and search figures
  in Bristol.

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Causes of disproportionality

• There are 3 overarching causes of
  overrepresentation (of young black people in the
  criminal justice system
• social exclusion
• factors specific to the Black community
• and the operation of the Criminal Justice
  System
• House of Commons Home Affairs Committee report,
  Young Black people and the Criminal Justice
  System, 2006-2007

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and what lies behind it all
In comparison to their representation in the
population, BME communities are more likely
than others to live in deprived areas be poor
be unemployed, compared with white people with
similar qualifications experience
gross inequalities in health and mental health
and live in overcrowded and unpopular housing.
They also experience widespread racial
harassment and racist crime and are
over-represented throughout the criminal
justice system, from stop and search to
prison. Taken from Social Exclusion Unit
statistics, 2003.
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Key findings around the perpetuation of
disproportionality

• Perceived / actual discrimination on the part
  of the
• Police.
• Poor recording of ethnicity data.
• 80 of all Black people live in Neighbourhood
  
• Renewal Areas.
• BME young people are more likely to receive
  
• custodial sentences than their white counter
  parts.

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Some key statistics for the UK

• Young Black people represent fewer than 3 of
  all
• 10-17 year olds but make up 6 of those in the
  Youth
• Justice System.
• There are twice as many Black young boys in
  prison
• than in University.
• Between 1994-2003 the rise in Black female
  prisoners
• was 56.6 higher than the rise for women of
  all other
• ethnicities.

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And did you know?

• BME young people are three times more likely to
  be
• victims of street crime than white youths.
• Over 80 of all Section 1 Searches on black
  people
• take place in Greater Manchester, West
  Midlands and Metropolitan Police forces.
• BME people are 6.4 times more likely to be
  stopped
• and searched than white people.

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What young people say about Right Track
I come to Right Track because I want to be a
better person, learn to be good. I come for help,
I am not being forced to, I choose to
come.  It gets people off the street, getting
people out of guns, getting them into school,
whats good and whats bad and anger
management. Workers help us sort out things
like whats happening at home and at school and
re the streets.
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Right Track National Initiative

• DCSF funding for 3 years to disseminate best
  practice as
• developed by Right Track with the aim of
  improving ECM
• outcomes for up to 13,000 BME children and
  young people
• engaging with CYP, families, communities and
  services
• across 5 government regions including the South
  West
• offering training, consultancy, resources and
  toolkits for
• practitioners
• working to identify local need, building on
  strengths, helping
• to plug gaps in service delivery and support
  development
• and delivery of improved services

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How does the RTNI work?

• organising regular Practitioner Forums in the
  various
• Government regions
• providing free training to raise awareness
  around
• issues of cultural diversity in the form of
  Community
• Engagement and Inclusion Participation
  training.
• consulting with BME CYP, families and
  professionals
• in each area to determine issues locally and
  involving
• BME CYP in the development and delivery
  process.
• providing consultancy services, resources and
• toolkits and a website to explore issues,
  solutions
• and access information.

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Who we work with

• Youth Offending Teams/Services, magistrates
  and
• local councillors.
• Local community groups, youth services and
• voluntary sector agencies.
• Childrens Society projects.
• Schools.
• Local and National BME organisations.
• Childrens Services and CAMHS.

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Play your part

• RTNI is also engaging with Play Your Part
• a multi agency collapsed timetable day for year
  8 pupils in Bristol
• coordinated by Avon and Somerset Police,
  bringing together Avon Fire and Rescue, First
  Bus, The Gang Awareness Project, The Red Cross,
  HMP/YOI Ashfield and other unique experiences
  into the school for the day to enable young
  people to understand they play a role in society

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but best of all

• we work with young people themselves!
• We hold a regular Thursday night group with young
  people who have a long-standing relationship with
  Right Track
• four of the girls who come along made a DVD
  about
• their experience of trying to report an
  incident of racist
• abuse to the police
• we are now working to research and develop
  content for a
• website that will help young people in trouble
  with the law
• but it is not all hard workand we have X Box
• tournaments and play table football too!

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Train the Trainer

• and we are currently working with a group of BME
  young people in Year 8 at Cotham School
• this youth-led project is designed to raise
  aspirations
• and improve outcomes
• the YP are exploring negative stereotypes and
  positive
• role models and will give a presentation to
  their own year
• group and to Year 8 students at Sidcot Quaker
  School
• they will all be awarded a Youth Achievement
  Award
• Challenge Certificate for taking part

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Conference presentation
The girls who created the DVD have also been
invited to take part in Young people, identity
and conflict a conference presenting the views
of young people, practitioners, academics and
policy makers where they will run a workshop on
their experience of being a dual heritage girl
living in Bristol
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Train the Trainer residential

• and recently we worked in partnership with
  Fairbridge West to take a group of refugee/asylum
  seeker young people away to the Brecon Beacons on
  a residential trip
• as well as enabling the YP to take part in a
  variety of
• activities, we also took the opportunity to
  consult with
• them to enable Fairbridge West to become more
  
• inclusive and accessible to BME/RAS
  communities
• the young people in this group have just
  received a
• Diana Award for

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Who to Contact
Contact prd_at_childsoc.org.uk tbb_at_childsoc.org.uk
Tel. [phone] Thank you for your time.
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Sources

• 2001 Census Data.
• House of Commons Home Affairs Committee report,
  Young Black people and the Criminal Justice
  System, 2006-2007
• NACRO memorandum on Race Equality submitted to
  the Select Committee on Home Affairs, 2005.
• Mayor of Londons BMER Crime and Safety Youth
  Summit Report Young People Big Issues, 2006.
• Community Development Work in a Changing
  Environment Jim Thakoordin.
• Middlesex University Research into The Role of
  the BME Voluntary Sector in promoting Social
  Inclusion, Regeneration and Quality of Life.
• Middlesex University Social Exclusion Unit
  statistics, 2003.