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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