Taher Ali Qassim Public Health Neighbourhood Manager Budapest 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 health Dahlgren & Whitehead, 1991

South Central Cluster – © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Licence number LA City of Liverpool 2002 Source: HEAT Team

Black and Other Racial Minority population in South Central NMA Source: LCC Word Profile Series 2006

Deprived Areas, BRM communities Spearhead or Deprived Areas 88 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

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 Body Schools Community & Voluntary Critical Triangle in Education Attainment Effective Partnership Community & Voluntary groups support Ability to communicate 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 2002 On Regeneration  To meet and exceed national targets for schools, qualifications and employment by 2005  Improve achievement at Key Stage 3  Increase attendance at School  Improve 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 Source: Liverpool EMTAS 2003 Mid 2002

Attainment in English, Maths & Science Source: EMTAS website Mid 2006

What did we do next? Type of ActionReaction Collecting facts locally, regionally & globally None Seminar for community groups Community & authority Recruitment for Mentoring course Community

What did we do cont.? Type of ActionReaction Courses for parents in own language Parents & religious group Academic researchBRM 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 Excellence in Education, jobs opps & regeneration Did you get lost? Plan for next 30 years!