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Returning to DanceCOVID19 vulnerability
and equality and
diversity: Review of
the government
guidance
By the end of this webinar today, we hope to
● Give an overview of the pieces of UK government
guidance for England on vulnerable people.
● To discuss One Dance UK’s role in advocating
for and supporting equity and diversity in the
dance sector
At the end of the webinar, we welcome questions.
This will give us direction for what support we could
help to provide to the sector.
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Tomorrow – Panel and open space
Tomorrow, we will discuss implications of COVID with a panel of
people from across the dance sector including:
• Hannah Robertshaw, Programmes Director, Yorkshire Dance
• Sophie Tickle, Lead Artist/Project Manager, Dance Syndrome
• Kimberley Harvey, Director, Candoco Youth Dance
• Ellie Douglas Allan, Senior Producer, Candoco
• Jeanefer Jean Charles, Creative Artist and Producer
To follow up this initial information sharing, we will host open spaces
for discussion. This will allow us all to become more aware of each
other’s stories and situations and share how we are approaching this
issues. Anyone interested in being a part of the open space discussion
is welcomed.
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Context of these webinars
● Public health is a devolved issue. Keep in mind that guidance for
dance activities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
varies.
● If planning dance activity, you should always consider whether there are
local restrictions in place in your area or region. If so, you should
first read the guidance relevant to your area as this may supersede
guidance in this webinar.
● Government guidance will evolve with science. No one has all the
answers, as medical and scientific understanding of coronavirus
disease is developing – we are learning together!
● Read the relevant government guidance for your planned work.
Use creativity, consider the resources available to you and discuss ideas
with others to address guidance within your context.
● We aim to:
○ Provide a space to discuss, raise questions, identify issues and
share practice
○ Support practical implementation of government guidance across
the dance sector to help everyone to return to dancing safely4
How to use this webinar
Type questions into the Q&A box
● We will try to address as many questions as possible live. All
answered questions will be available in writing on One Dance
UK’s website after the session
● You can upvote questions you see in the Q&A box so they will
move to the top of the list to be answered
CHAT QUESTIONS
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Our panel today
Co-Chair:
Andrew Hurst
CEO, One Dance UK
Mercy Nabirye
Head of Dance of the
African Diaspora,
One Dance UK
Co-Chair:
Christopher
Rodriguez
Deputy CEO and
Finance Director,
One Dance UK
Dr Roger
Wolman
Consultant in
Rheumatology and
Sport & Exercise
Medicine
Nick Allen PhD
Clinical Director,
Birmingham Royal
Ballet
Tori Drew
Dance in Education
Manager, One Dance
UK
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Co-Chair: Andrew
Hurst
CEO, One Dance UK
Who we are
One Dance UK
Sector support organization for dance
Subject association for dance
Dance Medicine and Science Expert
Panel
National Institute of Dance
Medicine and Science
Enhancing dancers' health, wellbeing and
performance
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• Stage One - Rehearsal and training (no
audiences and adhering to social
distancing guidelines)
• Stage Two - Performances for broadcast
and recording purposes (adhering to
social distancing guidelines)
• Stage Three - Performances outdoors
with an audience plus pilots for indoor
performances with a limited distance
audience from July 11. We will now also
work with the sector to get small pilots
started as soon as possible and will set
out further details in due course.
• Stage Four - Performances allowed
indoors / outdoors (but with a limited
distanced audience indoors)
• Stage Five - Performances allowed
indoors / outdoors (with a fuller audience
indoors)
The UK government, published guidance and a
roadmap for re-opening the performing arts in
July that allows live indoor performances with a
socially distanced audience from Saturday 15
August. We currently in Stage 4.
This roadmap applies to England, but Scotland,
Northern Ireland and Wales are currently
developing their own guidance and are likely to be
similar, if perhaps a little later (as we have seen
already through the easing of lockdown). We will
update members once the guidance for the other
nations has been published.
1. Phased return to professional performing arts
Updates Five-Stage Roadmap
Risk assessment
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● Reopening requires a written Risk Assessment for anyone
employing more than five employees to show you’ve
addressed COVID-19, using the guidance to inform your
decisions and control measures, and taking account of the
needs of those with protected characteristics.
● We covered this in a previous session which you can find on
our website and YouTube channel.
● Template risk assessments can also be found on our
website: https://www.onedanceuk.org/return-to-dance/
Diversity in the performing arts
● Today we are considering Vulnerability, Equality, and
Diversity and before we get to the government
guidance, myself and some colleagues will give some
brief updates on our work in this area.
● When we do get to the Q&A section, please note that if
we don’t answer your question it may have already
been answered. You can find answers to all questions,
the video recordings and slides from all previous
sessions on our website.
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Three sources of guidance
Depending on where you are in the UK, the setting you are working in and who you are
working with, you will need to refer to different pieces of guidance.
● Following an update to the guidance on 13th August ,Professionals and non-
professionals are covered by the DCMS Performing Arts guidance for England.
● Dance Studios in England can fully reopen and will need to refer to the grassroots
sports, gym and leisure facilities guidance. Those in Northern Ireland, Scotland and
Wales will need to refer to guidance for the nations once it has been published (to date
only guidance for Northern Ireland on reopening venues has been published).
Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19) Performing Arts
Grassroots sport and gym/leisure facilities
Protective measures for out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Meeting people outside your household
Our work during COVID19
● Regular contact with government and officials reporting on the impact on
our sector, and shortfalls in support.
● Written evidence submission to the DCMS Select Committee enquiry,
including impact diversity in dance. Called for targeted intervention to
safeguard the progress that has been made on diversity. The Select
Committee picked up on several of the points raised by us in their report.
● Wrote to DCMS and the Arts Council when the Cultural Recovery Fund
was announced - diversity needed to be specifically addressed in
recovery plans.
● Please do voice your concerns about diversity and inclusion in the
dance sector with us directly, and consider joining the webinar
tomorrow which includes a panel discussion followed by an open
space opportunity for you to raise and discuss your concerns.
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Co-Chair:
Christopher
Rodriguez
Deputy CEO and Finance
Director, One Dance UK
● DCMS impact of diversity to the sector - 3 rounds of
talks with Dance of the African Diaspora
organisations and individuals to be guided on their
key concerns for returning to work
● We believe that equality, diversity and inclusion
in leadership, workforce, education and
performance output is ethically right and a pillar
for an inventive and future-proofed dance
sector.
● Diversity in dance has made huge strides in the last
decade but is not where it should be at the time of
lockdown and in danger of being reversed on
reopening.
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Summary of discussions
● We’re not fully satisfied that actions needed have been fully
addressed - we keep pushing and supporting this agenda.
● People of colour have been disproportionally affected by
COVID-19.
● Dealing with grief, loss and mental health and wellbeing
concerns and need for financial support to have skilled
professionals and extending their work to hold communities.
● As we’re at Stage 4 of reopening, we urge venues and
marketeers to work even more strongly in partnerships with
diverse leaders to reach out to diverse audiences. With
social distancing in venues, it becomes more important to
include diverse audiences in marketing plans.
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Summary of discussions (cont)
● Loss of diverse freelancers is a key concern.
Freelancers make up 70% of the workforce and
remain most in peril.
● Organisations are making efforts to maintain
freelancers and ask that you please maintain
and support diverse freelancers as their skills
and knowledge are not easily replaced.
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Ensure diversity doesn’t lose
ground
If you’re an employer, venue or company, dare
to look at your diverse staff’s upward
progression. Commission and stage diverse
artists and please do whatever within your
means to hold on to freelancers.
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Mercy Nabirye
Head of Dance of the African
Diaspora, One Dance UK
Mapping Dance of the African Diaspora (DAD)
Strategy to identify
● Where the sector is,
● What it looks like now after two
decades,
● What the priority needs are
Methodology
● Mailchimp surveys,
● Regional roundtable
consultations with the sector,
● 121 sessions and interviews with
key leaders in the sector
Findings
● Report with findings and
recommendations
● 2019: world café with national
and international delegates to
further explore the findings and
the emerging themes, and to
produce an action plan with
outcomes and goals to help
implement a framework for real
change in DAD’s future in the UK
and beyond
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ACTION PLAN shared in HOTFOOT Spring 2020 (Pages 14 –
19 – Actioning change section)
https://issuu.com/onedanceuk/docs/hotfoot_spring_2020
DAD Mapping Report (Pages 8-33 – Mapping DAD section)
https://issuu.com/onedanceuk/docs/_hotfoot_magazine_autumn_2019_
edition-final/10
Excerpt email from Inc Arts / Amanda Parker CEO
#BAMEOver - Let's get rid of the acronym.
Add your voice to a nationwide survey on how we - and others -
refer to us. We're taking the results to government, after we come
together as a community to discuss and consult.
Please keep the date free for the #BAMEOver zoom conference
on September 4.
Before that: take the survey and share widely to make it - we've
attached some artwork for you to use on your socials too.
#BAMEOver https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/KJNTL7Z
We'll be sharing more information nearer the time.
Summary of survey findings –the DAD sector
● developed over the past 5
years however in varying
degrees e.g. geographically
● is demographically diverse
● is strongly community
focused
● key priority needs for the
sector - Funding and
knowledge of fundraising
● The self-employed and sole
traders are predominant
● Women make up the
majority of practitioners
● DAD is strongly rooted in
connection to Africa
however, African
Contemporary practice
dominates the sector in
comparison to neo traditional
forms
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Six key goals in the short to medium term
1. IMPROVEMENT IN SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING AND
SUSTAINABILITY Our measure is that by 2021 50% of the dance
sector knows where to find opportunities and that there is a
significant success rate in resourcing individuals and robust
programmes.
2. IMPROVEMENT FOR A DAD EDUCATION AND TRAINING
INFRASTRUCTURE Our measure is that by December 2020
announce a revised biennial scheme that addresses at least 3-5
educational professional development sector needs identified
through research
3. MORE VISIBILITY AND PLATFORMS FOR DAD WORK Our
measure is that by December 2021, at least 3 strategic partnerships
are forged to collaborate with One Dance UK on providing platforms
and promoting artists and their work
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Six key goals in the short to medium term
4. URGENCY TO DOCUMENT LEGACY, OPEN UP AND INCREASE
ARCHIVES Our measure is that by December 2021 we can signpost
to or highlight at least 2 significant resources that focus on Dance of
the African Diaspora.
5. MORE AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT Our measure is that annual
statistics from a national programming perspective, indicates at least
a 5% increase in some form of black dance engagement physically
or digitally
6. PROVIDING SUPPORT TO BUILD NETWORKS TO SHARE AND
REDUCE THE KNOWLEDGE GAP ACROSS THE SECTOR Our
measure is that by December 2021 have or support a scheme that
enables intergenerational networking, sharing and peer to peer
learning and collating resource at least twice a year
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Activities
● May - call to action in our
HOTFOOT for the sector to
share initiatives that can
benefit the greater good.
Resource pack to share in
the November issue.
● June - social media
campaign called ‘I MOVE’ to
highlight artists, artforms and
initiatives across the sector. I
MOVE new Facebook
Community
● Ongoing - invite people to
identify and suggest
areas in the action plan
that they can be involved
in.
● From Sept - focus groups
to work with us on each of
the six goals Please get
in touch if you are
interested.
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Current affairs
● Analysing the impact of COVID 19 and the Black Lives
Matter movement has exposed and exacerbated the
long-standing inequalities present in the structures and
systems we work with daily.
● There is a triple global crisis around our Health, our
Economic wellbeing, and race relations.
● We cannot do it alone. We are looking to government
recommendations, but we are also seeking to hear,
listen and learn more from you to help us adjust and
review our plans.
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ADAD (The Association of Dance of the African Diaspora)
● Collective voices
● Set up in 1994
● Direct response to help address the imbalance in the dance ecology
● To raise awareness, appreciation and understanding of artists and
the artforms of the Dance of the African Diaspora
This vision is still yet to be realised to its full capacity.
We continue to advocate to Policy Makers, funders and partners in the
wider creative sector – locally, nationally and internationally, to
recognise the value of this diversity and to ensure that it is well equipped
to deal with the obstacles faced year on year
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Dr Roger Wolman
Consultant in
Rheumatology and Sport
& Exercise Medicine
Nick Allen PhD
Clinical Director,
Birmingham Royal Ballet
COVID Vulnerability
COVID Age: risk as a function of age (usually over 60) and
combined risk factors such as sex, ethnicity, and co-existing
illness such as obesity, diabetes or hypertension
Reducing any controllable risk factors helps to reduce
vulnerability.
Although no one has the answers to prevent all risk of
contracting coronavirus disease, each person should
do what is in their control to mitigate their own risks
and support health.
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Who is vulnerable?Clinically vulnerable people
Refers to people who may be at increased risk from
COVID-19, including those aged 70 or over and
those with some underlying health conditions.
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Definition of ‘clinically vulnerable’
If you have any of the following health conditions, you may be
clinically vulnerable, meaning you could be at higher risk of severe
illness from coronavirus. Although you can meet people outdoors
and indoors, you should be especially careful and be diligent about
social distancing and hand hygiene.
Clinically vulnerable people are those who are:
● aged 70 or older (regardless of medical conditions)
● under 70 with an underlying health condition listed below (that
is, anyone instructed to get a flu jab each year on medical
grounds):
● chronic (long-term) mild to moderate respiratory diseases,
such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), emphysema or bronchitis
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Definition of ‘clinically vulnerable’
Clinically vulnerable people are those who are:
● chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
● chronic kidney disease
● chronic liver disease, such as hepatitis
● chronic neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease,
motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), or cerebral palsy
● diabetes
● a weakened immune system as the result of certain conditions or
medicines they are taking (such as steroid tablets)
● being seriously overweight (a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or
above)
● pregnant women34
Who is vulnerable?Clinically extremely vulnerable people
Expert doctors in England have identified specific medical conditions that, based on what
we know about the virus so far, place some people at greatest risk of severe illness from
COVID-19. Disease severity, medical history or treatment levels will also affect who is in
this group.
Clinically extremely vulnerable people may include:
● solid organ transplant recipients,
● people with specific cancers: people with cancer who are undergoing active
chemotherapy, people with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy,
people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or
myeloma who are at any stage of treatment, people having immunotherapy or other
continuing antibody treatments for cancer, people having other targeted cancer
treatments that can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or
PARP inhibitors
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from
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Definition of ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’
Clinically extremely vulnerable people may also include:
● people who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6
months or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs
● people with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe
asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
● people with rare diseases that significantly increase the risk of infections (such
as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell)
● people on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk
of infection
● women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or
acquired
● other people who have also been classed as clinically extremely vulnerable,
based on clinical judgement and an assessment of their needs. GPs and
hospital clinicians have been provided with guidance to support these
decisions
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-1936
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Clinically extremely vulnerable people
As of 1 August, you are no longer eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) on
the basis of being advised to shield by the government. Your employer
should help you to transition back to work safely and support you to
maintain good hand hygiene and distancing practice in your workplace if
you are unable to work from home.
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from
COVID-19
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Employment Clinically extremely vulnerable people
● You can go to work as long as the workplace is Covid-secure, but should carry on
working from home wherever possible. You may be able to take up an alternative
role or change your working patterns temporarily.
● If you need support to work at home or in the workplace, you can apply for Access
to Work. Access to Work will provide support for the disability-related extra costs of
working that are beyond standard reasonable adjustments an employer must
provide.
● Employers should be mindful of the particular needs of different groups of workers
or individuals.
● It is breaking the law to discriminate, directly or indirectly, against anyone because
of a protected characteristic such as age, sex or disability, race or ethnicity.
● Employers also have particular responsibilities towards disabled workers and those
who are new or expectant mothers.
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-
19
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Tori Drew
Dance in Education
Manager, One Dance UK
Children and Young PeopleDance for AllToday’s young people are feeling lonelier, nearly a third are overweight or obese and are more likely to be depressed than they were 10 years ago.
Sport England data showing a decline of physical activity during lockdown with children and young people
Adults with disabilities showing that most are not doing any exercise at all
Children and Young People from Black and ethnic communities have seen an increase in exercise but more indoors
Dance has the power to improve physical and mental health
Young Woman’s Trust. (2019) Lifetime of loneliness: one in four young people feels lonely
Department of Health and Social Care (2017) Childhood obesity: a plan for action
Patalay, P. and Gage, S.H. (2019). Changes in millennial adolescent mental health and health-related behaviours over 10 years: a population cohort comparison study
Sport England (2020) Children’s experience of physical activity in lockdown insight
Children and Young PeopleGuidance
Department for Education
Guidance for full opening: schools
Supporting children and young people with SEND
Protective measures for out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Providers of grassroots sport and gym/leisure facilities
Advice
Activity Alliance. Reopening activity: An inclusive response
Full School guidanceTo deliver a broad and balanced curriculum for their pupils, including full educational and care support for those pupils who have SEND.
Supply teachers, peripatetic teachers and/or other temporary staff can move between schools. They should ensure they minimise contact and maintain as much distance as possible from other staff. Specialists, therapists, clinicians and other support staff for pupils with SEND should provide interventions as usual.
Whether individual risk assessments are used to help plan for the autumn term or not, schools should, in the spirit of coproduction, contact parents and involve them in planning for their child’s return to their school from the start of the autumn term. They should also contact and involve young people over 16 who have education, health and care plans
Due to the smaller size of many alternative provision (AP) settings, and because APs are not typically organised by year groups, APs may wish to adopt whole school bubbles as part of their system of control and in order to best meet the needs of their students.
If it is not possible to maintain bubbles being used during the school day then schools should use small, consistent groups.
Schools should bear in mind the potential concerns of pupils, parents and households who may be reluctant or anxious about returning and put the right support in place to address this.
Guidance for full opening: schools
Supporting children and young people with SEND
In these circumstances, staff should minimise close contact
wherever possible, increase hand-washing and other hygiene
measures, and clean surfaces more regularly and maintain
existing routine use of personal protective equipment.
Supporting children and young people with SEND
Protective measures for out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
It is breaking the law to discriminate, directly or indirectly, against anyone in
employment and the provision of services because of a protected characteristic,
such as age, sex, race or disability.
Providers should be especially sensitive to the needs and worries of black and ethnic
community children and young people, parents and carers, and staff, and should
consider if any additional measures or reasonable adjustments may need to be put
in place to mitigate risk.
Barnardo’s See, Hear, Respond Service
Protective measures for out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19)
outbreak
Providers of grassroots sport and gym/leisure facilities
Ensuring any changes to entries, exit and queue
management take into account reasonable adjustments
for those who need them, including disabled customers.
For example, maintaining pedestrian and parking access
for disabled customers.
Grassroots sport and gym/leisure facilities 45
Advice
it is important to communicate new safety measures, cleaning processes,
and routes into, out of and through your venue in relation to Covid-19.
Highlight how you have ensured these are inclusive and accessible.
Communication and discouraging term vulnerable
Confidence and wellbeing
Activity Alliance. Reopening activity: An inclusive response
Wheelchairs to be wiped down after class
British Wheelchair Basketball Association
Consult your participants and parents
Sport England - Recognising the needs and views of the people at your
club or organisation during the COVID-19 pandemic’
Cerebral Palsy -It’s OK to Play
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Questions
Attend our upcoming webinars
• Thursday 20 Aug 10am – noon COVID19 vulnerability and
equality and diversity Part 2: Voices from the sector on
implications of vulnerability in COVID19 and returning to dance
Future webinars will cover:
• Transport, touring, and travel