1	"Foreword" Foreword Introduction Purpose of Agenda 2010 Key Indicators Agenda 2010: Crime and Disorder Action Statement Agenda 2010 Education Action Statement Agenda 2010 Employment Action Statement Agenda 2010 Health and Social Care Action Statement Contacts Acknowledgements
2	Foreword The themes of Agenda 2010 were developed in October 2000. Despite this, some of the communities from black and minority ethnic origin are not aware of its importance. This is partly because since its conception engagement with black and minority ethnic communities has been slow. The community and voluntary sector have a part to play in ensuring that BME communities are aware and engaged with Agenda 2010. The Ethnic Health Forum (EHF) has identified this gap and has produced this Agenda 2010 CD ROM in 5 languages to facilitate interest among those members of black and minority ethnic communities whose first language is other than English. It is hoped that this effort will improve local communities participation in the Agenda 2010
3	Introduction Agenda 2010 is a partnership led by Manchester Council for Community Relations, the Progress Trust, Jobcentre Plus, the NHS, Manchester Education Department and Greater Manchester Police, to tackle racism and racial discrimination in the city over a ten-year period.
4	Purpose of Agenda 2010 The underlying objective of Agenda 2010 is to close the inequality gap between black and ethnic minority communities and the City as a whole on the key areas identified by the BME communities.
5	Key Indicators The government has four indicators to measure its strategy to tackle the problems of the poorest neighbourhoods; less crime better qualifications, more jobs & better health. 1. Crime and Disorder Crime and disorder has a disproportionate impact on black and ethnic minority communities who are more likely to become victims of crime and are more likely to be arrested and convicted of offences. The British Crime Survey shows that black and Irish people are treated differentially at all stages of the criminal justice process. 2. Education Agenda 2010 will look at lifelong education but in the first year will focus on schools. African and Caribbean children make up 9% of Manchester's school population, but 27% of permanent exclusions.
6	"3." 3. Unemployment Racial discrimination is likely to be a factor in high unemployment in many poor neighbourhoods. Young African-Caribbean men are two to three times likely to be jobless as white men with similar qualifications. 4. Health Evidence suggests that Black and minority communities face barriers to health services and have poorer health than the majority community. This is also the case for mental health, where there is an over-representation of BME people in mental health institutions.
7	Agenda 2010: Crime & Disorder Action Statement Crime and Disorder Aim To increase confidence of black and ethnic minority people to report crime and disorder, and give them confidence that effective action will be taken Action Develop good practice from multi-agency approaches to racial incident reporting Extend the good practice, throughout Manchester, of GMP's South Division Race Crime Unit
8	Agenda 2010: Crime & Disorder Action Statement Aim To support the victims of crime and disorder, and target action on the offenders and causes of offending Action Develop victim support work with victims of racially motivated crime Use of profiling for offender targeting and hot spotting Racial harassment and neighbour nuisance Use of information from Operation Chrome (a Home Office research project into gangs), to develop an approach to gang related crime and offending
9	Agenda 2010: Education Action Statement Aim Increasing the black and ethnic minority representation on Governing Bodies. Action The consultative group will have a role in inviting and encouraging members of black and ethnic minority voluntary organisations to register an interest in becoming a school governor
10	Agenda 2010: Education Action Statement Aim To look at the teacher training program Action To encourage increased take-up of LEA training opportunities for newly qualified teachers on race and other equality issues in teaching and learning The LEA, working with Manchester Metropolitan University, is to improve the proportion of black and ethnic minority teachers in the workforce
11	Agenda 2010: Education Action Statement Aim To develop mechanisms to engage black and ethnic minority young people who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion Action The promotion of adult mediation, between home and school, to effectively reduce tension. This will focus on increasing participation by black and ethnic minority communities into the school system Secondary schools will continue to build on the successful work of Primary schools in engaging parents within the school
12	Agenda 2010: Employment Action Statement Aim To increase access to employment for black and ethnic minority communities Action Jobs to be marketed to target local black and ethnic minority communities
13	Agenda 2010: Employment Action Statement Aim To increase employment support for black and ethnic minority communities Action To encourage self employment within local communities to build sustainability To improve professional support for local businesses within black and ethnic minority communities
14	Agenda 2010: Employment Action Statement Aim To improve employment training for black and ethnic minority communities Action Collect and disseminate examples of good practice from employers To develop links between education and employment to create market led training programmes
15	Agenda 2010: Health & Social care Action Statement Aim To improve access to health and social care for the black and ethnic minority population of Manchester Action Targets to develop and improve city - wide translation and interpretation service in Primary, Secondary and Social Care Research project to establish reasons for poor uptake of health and social care services, from which specific actions will be initiated
16	Agenda 2010: Health & Social care Action Statement Aim To develop and nurture an ethnically diverse workforce that reflects the cultural identity of Manchester's population Action Audit all health and social care agencies to establish the number and designation of black and ethnic minority staff in such organisations Take specific steps to attract and retain black and ethnic minority staff especially in areas of the health and social care service where they are currently under - represented
17	Agenda 2010: Health & Social care Action Statement Aim To Co-ordinate planning, at a strategic level, to meet the needs of black and ethnic minority communities. Action To ensure that all strategic service developments such as Coronary Heart Disease, Oral Health and Primary Care Investment Plans reflect the needs of black and ethnic minority communities
18	Important Telephone Numbers Crime and Disorder : 0161 234 3973 Education : 0161 234 7084 Employment: 0161 912 8426 Health: 0161 958 4109 General enquiries: 0161 234 3770
19	"The EHF will welcome and..." The EHF will welcome and expect to receive feedback from everyone. You will find a feedback link at the end that will take you directly to EHF website (depending on your connection to internet) where either you can fill the form or simply leave your comments. Thank You. We acknowledge VAM support in funding this project and Agenda 2010 team for their support Ethnic Health Forum
20	Thank You Ethnic Health Forum Room 36 Woodville Resource Centre Manchester M8 7NE E.mail: info@ethnichealth.org.uk Website: www.ethnichealth.org.uk