REHRS Resources

Downloadable resources from the Race Equality Service

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A Firmer Foundation: This survey is one step—not the first, and not the last—towards building up a profi le of the demographics of lesbian, gay bisexual and transgendered people and communities in the rural peninsula, and mapping the differences and similarities in our varied attitudes, experiences and needs.
Education Attainment in Bristol: In Bristol the highest achievers were Chinese females (78%), closely followed by the Bangladeshi Female group (75%) Bangladeshi Male was the highest scorer for the male group (70%). With the exception of Black African and Pakistani Males (by 1%), females did better than male pupils. Black Caribbean males did the worst the 13% attainment. Black Caribbean Females scored much better at 44%.Chinese males (29%) scored significantly lower that their female counterparts (78%).
LOCAL AREA AGREEMENTS - GUIDANCE FORROUND THREE AND REFRESH OF ROUNDS ONE AND TWO: A refreshed Guidance Note was published on 31 March 2005 for areas developing their LAA during 2006-7 to commence in April 2007 and for Round One and Two areas that will be refreshing their current agreements at the end of 2006, who should reflect this guidance in their refreshed LAA.The guidance replaces the Guidance Note issued in June 2005 and all previous Advice Notes on LAAs.
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill: A Bill to make provision with respect to local government and the functions and procedures of local authorities and certain other authorities; to make provision with respect to persons with functions of inspection and audit in relation to local government; to establish the Valuation Tribunal for England; to make provision in connection with local involvement networks; to abolish Patients’ Forums and the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health; to make provision with respect to local consultation in connection with health services; and for connected purposes.
Evaluation Update of the Bristol Means Business ERDF Objective 2 Project: This report provides an update to the original Bristol Means Business Partnership Evaluation to cover the project extension from January 2005 to September 2005.
Devon & Cornwall and Dorset & Somerset HR Network Employing BME People in the NHS in the South West: This report includes findings and recommendations in respect of the unique challenges of recruiting and retaining black and ethnic minority (BME) people to the NHS in the South West of England and ensuring they are empowered and engaged.
Promoting Age Equality: Of all forms of discrimination, discrimination by age is the most pervasive, and perhaps the least recognised and acknowledged in our modern society.
Expanding Futurebuilders England’s Service Areas: At its inception, Futurebuilders England was asked to limit its activities to five public service areas: health and social care, education and learning, community cohesion, crime and support for children and young people. Clearly, the VCS is active in a broader range of public service areas, and there is now interest in whether Futurebuilders could or should expand its activities beyond the initial five areas.
Homophobic & Transphobic Crime Research Project: Recent research has shown that there is a very high level of phobic incidents and crimes in the South West peninsula, and that only a very tiny proportion are being reported. The same research has also thrown up unexpected and unexplained differences in phobic crime patterns in urban compared with rural areas of the peninsula, and raised pressing questions about the nature, severity and locality of such crimes, and the risk factors for LGB/T members of the public.
The Cornwall Diversity Toolkit: The purpose of this Toolkit is to support organisations in Cornwall to consider and include equality and diversity within all organisational activities. This includes dealings both with their own staff and any volunteers, and with their external customers and suppliers.
Building Respect In Communities: A new addition to this block is the outcome on respect: "to build Respect within communities and to reduce Anti-Social Behaviour". Respect is at the very heart of a number of Government policies. The Respect Action Plan, launched on 10 January 2006, sets out how a broader approach can be taken; it recognises that as well as enforcement, the causes of anti-social behaviour must be dealt with by working through families, schools and communities.
Isolation, Rurality, & Experience of Homophobic & Transphobic Crime: The proposed new research will provide important hard evidence about (a) the risk factors for becoming a victim of homophobic or transphobic crime in the South West peninsula, and (b) the extent and nature of such crimes, the great majority of which are now known to be unreported.
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Surveys But Were Afraid to Ask: A Powerpoint presentation
The Reward Element of Local Area Agreements: Negotiation of Stretched Targets: The Reward Element of Local Area Agreements: Negotiation of Stretched Targets
Resettlement Strategy for the South West: Tackling crime is a high level Government priority. A key part of addressing offending must be rehabilitation to ensure the achievement of community safety and neighbourhood renewal. The Resettlement Strategy is targeted at improving the outcomes for 75% of the prison population who currently receive no resettlement intervention at all.
Ethnic Minority Employment: A Powerpoint presentation.
Getting It Right Programme: A Powerpoint presentation
Gay and Grey: This report presents the findings of a three-year action research project, funded by the Big Lottery Fund, which explored the needs, experiences and aspirations of older lesbians and gay men in Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset between June 2003 and September 2006.
Smoking: Smoking in general is a problem but for many BME communities this problem is greater in comparison to the general population.
Employing BME People in the NHS in the South West - Implementation Plan: This implementation plan has been developed to support delivery of the recommendations in the report produced by the Devon & Cornwall and Dorset & Somerset HR Network; ‘Employing BME People in the NHS in the South West.