The Brighton and Hove Black and Minority Ethnic Needs Assessment

What is a Needs Assessment?

- Local Black and Minority Ethnic communities felt that the council and other public agencies in the city didn’t fully understand who the community were and what some of the problems they were facing might be.

- The council and other agencies listened to this and identified some funding to undertake some research.

- BMECP (the Black and Minority Ethnic Community Partnership) worked with the community to set up a steering group to over-see the project.

- The Steering Group includes representatives of BME community groups in the city as well as the council, police and NHS.

Why has this project happened?

BME Data ‘Snapshot’ – Key Findings

23,494

10,408

11,278

4,188

2,1841,799

Non UK/British White

Mixed / multiple ethnicgroup

Asian / Asian British

Black/African/Caribbean/Black British

Arab

Any other ethnic group

220,018

53,351

English / Welsh / Scottish/ Northern Irish / British

Black & Minority Ethnic(BME)

20% or 53,351 B&H residents are

BME….

44% of BME residents are Non

UK/British White

Our BME population is increasing…

BME residents’ age profile is younger

0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

16%

18%

20%

White UK/British (n=220,018) White Irish (n=3,772)

Other White (n=19,524) Mixed/multiple ethnic group (n=10,408)

Asian/Asian British (n=11,278) Black/Black British (n=4,188)

Arab (n=2,184) other ethnic group (n=1,799)

91.8%

8.1%English / Welsh /Scottish / NorthernIrish / British

Black & MinorityEthnic (BME)

…just 8.1 per cent of over 65

year olds are from BME

backgrounds

…One fifth of

our children

and young

people are

from a BME

background.

A quarter of our households include people of different ethnic backgrounds

24%

13% 13%

Brighton & Hove South East England

BME Children and Young People tend not to reach their full potential, compared to White British

EAL attainment gaps 2012 at EYFS, Key Stages 1 and 2

% achieving good level of development

EYFS Brighton & Hove 16%

England 9%

% achieving expected Level 2

Reading Writing Maths

Key Stage 1 Brighton & Hove 11% 12% 4%

England 4% 4% 3%

% achieving expected Level 4

Key Stage 2 Brighton & Hove 6%

England 2%

This is particularly true for Black or Black British pupils eligible for free school meals

All Brighton & Hove pupils not eligible for FSM

All Brighton & Hove pupils eligible for FSM

Black or Black British pupils not eligible for FSM

Black or Black British pupils eligible for FSM 16.7%

52.8%

Key Stage 4 attainment by eligibility for FSM and by ethnicity

% achieving 5 GCSEs (A*-C) incl Eng and Maths

61.2%

26.9%

Housing issues

highlighted in snapshot

report

Comparator Notable differences in

outcomes

40% BME

-46% Bangladeshi

12% BME

-33% Bangladeshi

-32% Gypsy & Irish Traveller

-5% Indian

45% BME

-56% Other White

-48% Black/Black British

-17% Bangladeshi

Private rented homes - %

living in private rented

accommodation

24% White UK/British

Home ownership-% living in

owned or part-owned

accommodation

59% White UK/ British

Social rented homes- % living

in social housing

15% White UK/British

BME residents are much more likely to rent from a private landlord and less likely to own a home

All non-white ethnic groups had higher than average unemployment rates; four groups had rates at least twice the

city average

7.3%

18.7%

16.9%15.9%

15.3%

Average Black African White & Black African White & Black Caribbean Gypsy or Irish Traveller

What we have done and will do in the future.

• The Steering Group has prioritised working on issues related to

Housing, Employment and Education

• It has held events to ensure the views of BME people are fed into

the Council’s new Housing Strategy.

• Our Chair is now a member of the Council’s ‘Closing the Gap’

working group. This group is working on a number of projects to

reduce the gap between attainment levels of BME pupils and their

White British peers.

• It has presented the findings to the City Employment and Skills

Steering Group and they have agreed to have a focus on skills and

employment support for BME communities in their next action plans.

• We are now organising community events to feed into the schools

work and look at what services the BME community would like to

use and improve.

To help us with our work we would like to ask you some questions.

7%

9%

11%

2%

7%

27%

9%

29%

Q1 - Where do you (find it easiest) to get information from ?

A. Word of mouth

B. Leaflets

C. Website

D. Social media

E. Schools

F. Community/voluntary groups

G. BMECP centre

H. Other community centres

13%

28%

11%

13%

24%

4%

7%

Q2. How would you like (prefer) to be involved in /kept in touch/contribute to the work of the BMENAG?

A. Survey – paper / online

B. Newsletter

C. Events

D. Regular meetings

E. Drop in

F. Direct contact with community groups

G. Internet / social media