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Wrexham

Community Cohesion Strategy 2011-14

Equality Information and Outcomes

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• Background to cohesion in Wrexham

• Strategy development – Equality duties

• Performance monitoring

• Results Based Accountability – theory

• Results Based Accountability – reality!

• Putting it all together – performance framework that includes equality monitoring

Overview of presentation:

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Strategic Objective/Actions

Performance Indicators/Milest

onesTarget

Lead Organisation

/Partnership

Q 1 Q 2 Q 3 Q 4

4. Integration

4.2 Continue to develop network of third party reporting centres to report and record and respond where appropriate to hate incidents both within the communities of Wrexham and within the workplace.

4.2.1 TPRCs engaged in an active support network

25 (including 9 LSB organisations)

Wrexham Community

Safety Partnership

Actual

LSB training undertaken

28 TPRCs - Includes LSB organisations

31Includes Contact Wrexham

Colour

Green Green Green

4.2.2 Diverse communities engaged in the anti hate project

LGBT Wrexham Community

Safety Partnership

Actual

LGBT group commitment

Disability Community Faith Community – initial meetings held

Work ongoing

Colour

Green Green Green

4.2.3 Increase in reported hate crime

From 50 to 70 per year

Wrexham Community

Safety Partnership

Actual

27 Less reports

46

Colour

Green Amber Green

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• Continue to deliver the priorities taken forward through the current community cohesion strategy;

• Increase the level of engagement with children and young people around the cohesion debate, including building good relations through play;

• Develop more explicit links with the equalities agenda;• Explore in more detail community cohesion issues in relation to

disability and develop options for increased engagement;• Develop a better understanding of the links and shared priorities

with community regeneration work;• Continue to mainstream community cohesion wherever possible;

and• Improve monitoring and evaluation by adopting a ‘Results

Based Accountability’ approach.

Key consultation feedback

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• What are the quality of life conditions we want for the children, adults and families who live in our community? RESULTS

• What would these conditions look like I we could see them INDICATORS

• How can we measure theses conditions? PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• How are we doing on the most important of our measures?

• Who are the partners that have a role to play in doing better?

• What works to do better, including no-cost and low-cost ideas?

• What do we propose to do? PROJECTS

Results Based Accountability [RBA]

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Results Based Accountability [RBA] – what we are aiming at…….

Result

Indicator Indicator

Project ProjectProject Project

Performance Measures

Performance Measures

Performance Measures

Performance Measures

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Short term / Year 1

Medium term / year 2

Long term / year 3

• Very important• Urgent• Create a

baseline• Underpin future

work

• Lower degree of urgency

• Require underpinning work in years 1 + 2

• Require further investigation

• Dependant on other issues / activities

Long list of ideas, ambitions, blue sky thinking…….

Long list of ideas, ambitions, blue sky thinking…….

Long list of ideas, ambitions, blue sky thinking…….

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‘Wrexham is a peaceful and harmonious place where people have a sense of belonging and get on well together’

Quality of Life Condition i.e. the Result people want:

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•Wrexham is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together

•Wrexham is a place where community tensions are understood and are peacefully resolved at an early stage

Indicators [how we will recognise the Result]:

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Wrexham is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together

• Minority communities are represented on strategic partnerships• Public, voluntary and community sector staff understand who our

communities are and what they need• Different communities come together in everyday situations

Wrexham is a place where community tensions are understood and are peacefully resolved at an early stage

• People are confident to report community tensions *• Children and young people influence the community cohesion

agenda• Children and young people are confident to mix together

Strategic Action Plan [the actions we will take that have a reasoned chance of improving the Result]

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•How much did we do?

•How well did we do it?

•Is anyone better off?

RBA Performance Measures [how well are we delivering the actions]:

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Outcome What this will look like

How we will achieve this [projects]

Performance measureHow much we did How well we did it Is anyone

better off

People are confident to report community tensions

Community tensions are reported

Continue to develop the Anti Hate project to ensure that children, young people and adults from all communities can access the support service.Continue to raise awareness of the Community Tension Monitoring process

No of TPRCs targeting people with protected characteristicsNo of anti hate awareness raising activities [agencies, TPRCs, communities, young people]No of reports by protected characteristic / ageNo of tension monitoring awareness raising activitiesNo of Community Tension Monitoring reports receivedNo of tension reports escalated to the Community Tension Monitoring Group

% customer satisfaction with anti hate project [TPRCs, agencies, helping agencies, victims /age]% customer satisfaction with awareness raising activities% of tension reports / geographic and agency spread

No and % of victims who feel the Anti Hate project had helped them / protected characteristic / age [Key Performance Indicator]No and % of agencies who feel the Anti Hate project has helped them characteristic / ageNo and % of agencies who feel the Tension Monitoring Project has helped themNo and % of cases that would not have been resolved under the previous system

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Putting it all together:

Wrexham is a peaceful and harmonious place where people have a sense of belonging and get on well together

Wrexham is a place where people fromDifferent backgrounds get on well together

Wrexham is a place where community tensions are understood and are

peacefully resolved at an early stage

Community Tension

Monitoring

Third Party Reporting Centres

Project Project

Performance Measures

Performance Measures

How much?How well?

Anyone better off?

How much?How well?

Anyone better off?

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Gill Grainger – Community Cohesion Manager

gillian.grainger@wrexham.gov.uk Tel: 01978 298736

Mo Caldecott – Community Cohesion Officermo.caldecott@wrexham.gov.uk Tel: 01978 298735

Contact details