Using the duties as a lever for change

Jill Evans

Aneurin Bevan Health Board

Scope of Presentation

Where are we now?

Where do we want to be?

How we will use the duties to help get us there?

Aneurin Bevan Health Board

• Over 13,500 staff

• Over 6,500 nurses

• Over 1300 Doctors

• Including 380 Consultants

We serve a population of around 561,700and are one of the largest and busiest health organisations in Wales

Caring for a diverse community

More care being provided in peoples own homes

Reported Hate Crime January to December 2010

Opportunity knocks!Include disability harassment as a

key objective within our new Strategic Equality Plan

Where do we want to be?

• Organisational response

• Individual response

• Community response

Using the duties as a lever for change

• Recognising our statutory duty to eliminate discrimination and harassment and to promote positive attitudes towards disabled people

• Increasing the confidence of disabled people to report

• Ensuring robust processes in place for identification and protection of people at risk of harm

• Working together to raise awareness of and tackle disability harassment

Road Shows

Ensuring awareness of Hate Crime is part of all disability equality campaigns

Hate Crime Forum

• Multi agency case handling is an integral part of the Forum

Every little helps!

• Disability Advisory Group

• School nurses – anti bullying forums

• Talk about it centres

• Sharing resources - Presentation on Hate Crime from SEWREC

• Availability of posters and hate crime report forms

• Using equality impact assessment

• Positive images and portrayal of disabled people in our publications

• Community engagement

• Partnership working

How does your partnership rate on this health test?EIGHT TESTS OF A HEALTHY PARTNERSHIP

1.You can demonstrate real results through collaboration

2. Common interest supersedes partner interest

3. You use "we" when talking about partner matters

4. You feel you are mutually accountable for tasks and outcomes

5. You share responsibilities and rewards

6. You strive to develop and maintain trust

7. You are willing to change what you do and how you do it in the interests of the greater good

8. You seek to improve how the partnership performs

The new duties are a lever for change

Three Types of Organisation!

•Those that make it happen

Those that let it happen

Those who wonder

what happened!

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The new duty is a lever for change

An opportunity to ‘Make Things Happen’