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Sheffield Fair City Campaign
Sheffield Executive Board 12 November 2014
Alan Walker, Chair, Fairness Commission
Amanda Pearce, Director, Diva
Sharon Squires, Director, Sheffield First
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Activity
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Sheffield Employability Programme
Skills Made Easy (apprenticeships)
elements of the City Deal
Analysis and distribution of health spend on JSNA work
programme
Physical health of people with mental health problems and with
learning disability priority in CCG plans 2014-16
CCG Equalities Action Plan
Explicit commitment to tackle the wider
determinants of health
Citywide Digital Inclusion strategy being developed
College commitment that 2.5% of their employees will be
apprentices
Council looking at how it can increase
number of new council homes
Identifying hidden carers – strand of Carers Strategy
Second Food Strategy for the city
being developed
Work on effective use of the pupil premium
Communications about welfare reform Support to victims
Police and Crime Commissioner grants
City Wide Learning Body priority to improve communication,
engagement, and involvement of parents
Progressing Sheffield Housing Company
Restorative Justice Outcomes
Domestic Abuse Strategic Review
implemented
Continued implementation of
20mph limits
Voluntary Bus Partnership more
equitable distribution of bus resources
Fair City Campaign Group
Work on community resilience
What do people know about Inequalities in Sheffield?
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asked the question:
“On average, a girl born in Ecclesall will live around ten years longer than one born in
Burngreave. Were you aware of this?
“Oh my goodness. That’s terrifying.”
“That’s crazy, isn’t it?”
“You see that kind of thing between countries. You wouldn’t expect to see that between two
different cities or in the same city.”
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Wilkinson & Pickett, The Spirit Level
Index of: • Life expectancy• Math & Literacy
• Infant mortality• Homicides• Imprisonment• Teenage births • Trust• Obesity• Mental illness
– incl. drug & alcohol addiction
• Social mobility
www.equalitytrust.org.uk
Health and social problems are worse in more unequal countries
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37% of the public believe “most people on the dole are ‘fiddling’”
Job Seekers Allowance fraud was 2.6% in 2013/14
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Pensions make up more than third of social security spend
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97% of families with one parent out of work and
claiming child benefit have 4 or
less children
Fairness Commission Recommended
A campaign in the city about fairness which has the following aspects:
•Inform people
•Promote the case for greater fairness
•A call to action
•Communicate what is being done to change things for the better
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Recommended