Taher Ali Qassim

Public Health Neighbourhood ManagerBudapest Workshop

29 – 30 September 2006

A journey to achieving excellence in education

North, Central and South Liverpool PCTs

Purpose

Explore inequality in education attainment among Yemeni & Somali pupils in Liverpool

•Background

•Process

•Key points from research

•New Development

Definition of Health

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

WHO: Definition

Factors influencing healthal

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Ag e , se x a nd c o nstitutio na l

fa c to rs

Agricu ltureand food

production

Education

W orkenvironm ent

Living and w orkingconditions

U nem ploym ent

W ater &sanitation

H ealthcare

services

H ousing

Dahlgren & Whitehead, 1991

South Central Cluster – © Crown copyright. All rights reserved.

Licence number LA076228. City of Liverpool 2002

   

Source: HEAT Team

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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

Per

cent

age

Black and Other Racial Minority population in South Central NMA

Source: LCC Word Profile Series 2006

Ethnic population in South Central NMA compared to Liverpool

0102030405060708090

100

White British BRM

Per

cen

tag

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South Central NMA

Liverpool

Source: LCC Word Profile Series 2006

Deprived Areas, BRM communities

Spearhead or Deprived Areas88 Primary Cary Trusts (PCTs)

70 Local Authorities

67% of BRM live in 88 Deprived Areas

Compare to:

40% of total population in same area

Source: NWPHO

Smoking Prevalence

30% of smokers in paid employment

58% of smoker unemployed

38% smokers in Central PCT Highest

Compare to:

37% North PCT & 25% South PCT

66% smoking services Liverpool wide taken by women

Source: Smoke Free Liverpool, December 04

Percentage of BRM Economic Inactivity in Merseyside

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10

20

30

40

50

60

Knowsley Liverpool Sefton St Helens Wirral Halton

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Source: MSIO report 5 Oct 05

Communication Issues in Liverpool

•Of 108 GP practices across Liverpool 80% have patients who are none English speaking

•90% of GPs still use family member or friend of patient

•20% of GP’s “speak slowly, loudly and use gesticulation” with speakers of another language

•30% of other language speaking patients do not understand their GPs

•50% of GPs know of telephone interpreting service, only 25% use this

Source: CLPCT Communication In GP surgeries in Liverpool, 15 Dec 05

When did this Education Journey start?

Low Education Attainment

Excellence in Education, jobs opps & regeneration

Parents

Public BodySchools

Community &Voluntary

Critical Triangle in Education Attainment

Effe

ctiv

e Pa

rtner

ship

Community & Voluntary groups support

Ability to

comm

unicate

•Mechanism 4 raising concerns

•Teachers & head teachers

•Education department-

•Male & female Empowered

•External facilitator

•Bilingual & Mentors

•Children & Young People Empowered

•Understand Influential Forces

•Safe Environment

Mike Storey’s Story Early 2002On Regeneration

To meet and exceed national targets for To meet and exceed national targets for schools, qualifications and employment by schools, qualifications and employment by 20052005

Improve achievement at Key Stage 3Improve achievement at Key Stage 3

Increase attendance at SchoolIncrease attendance at School

Improve attainment by Somali & Yemeni pupilsImprove attainment by Somali & Yemeni pupils

Building Bridges report on “Bullying and need for Mentoring” at schools

KS3 (12-14 years) English Results Liverpool Ethnic Groups 2000 to 2003

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ce: L

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Bangla

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Black

Brit

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Black

Brit

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hite

Brit

ish

Chine

se

Pakist

ani

Somali

White

UK

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A

Per

cen

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e 2000

2001

2002

2003

Mid 2002

English L5+

63.7

61.4

37.5

57.1

73.7

47.6

75.0

25.9

61.7

59.2

63.9

63.1

56.2

66.7

64.7

44.4

14.3

68.6

16.7

55.3

54.5

63.2

71.5

60.4

73.3

70.0

64.7

28.1

80.0

21.7

61.6

61.4

70.5

0 20 40 60 80 100

% pupils achieving

Maths L5+

62.0

62.8

50.0

57.1

52.6

28.6

85.4

18.5

53.0

54.3

62.0

65.5

51.7

88.9

70.6

40.0

26.1

79.2

24.0

52.2

61.6

65.3

66.7

63.3

71.4

70.0

52.9

31.3

41.7

56.6

62.7

66.2

94.9

0 20 40 60 80 100

% pupils achieving

Science L5+

58.5

55.8

25.0

64.3

52.6

38.1

75.0

18.5

51.7

51.6

58.9

56.2

50.1

68.8

37.5

20.0

56.6

8.3

45.6

52.3

56.3

61.0

60.0

46.7

50.0

58.8

19.4

69.4

21.7

51.5

53.4

60.2

88.9

0 20 40 60 80 100

% pupils achieving

2003 2004 2005

All Pupils

All Ethnic Minorities

Yemeni

Chinese

Somali

Bangladeshi

Pakistani

Indian

White UK

Mixed / Dual Heritage

Black / Dual Heritage (English 1st Language)

Attainment in English, Maths & Science

Source: EMTAS website

Mid 2006

What did we do next?

Type of Action Reaction

Collecting facts locally, regionally & globally

None

Seminar for community groups

Community & authority

Recruitment for Mentoring course

Community

What did we do cont.?

Type of Action Reaction

Courses for parents in own language

Parents & religious group

Academic research BRM Network, university & schools

Involving BRM subgroup & network

BRM Network & authority

Tell it Like It Is Seminar

Response from BRM participants

Research findings

•Majority of pupils in one school were < 1 year in England when going to do their GCSE

•Some pupils have not even been in education before due to conflict in country of birth

•Many parents spoke poor or no English

•Many parents aspire to good education for their children

•Responses of schools to research varied from none to excellent

•Community & voluntary organisations vital support

Further Development?

•Liverpool Arabic Club 3 Years Education Programme

•Conference to launch Research’s results

•Education Select Committee established to review education for 3 BRM groups

In summary

Poverty, urban deprivation including low level of education major challenges for regeneration

Education attainment is everyone’s business

4 key players for improvement in education attainment include; pupils, parents, LEA (schools), community voluntary sector

Low Education Attainment

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