Sheffield Fair City Campaign
Sheffield Executive Board 12 November 2014
Alan Walker, Chair, Fairness Commission
Amanda Pearce, Director, Diva
Sharon Squires, Director, Sheffield First
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Communications
about welfare reform
Support to victims
Activity
Citywide
Digital
Police
and Crime
Explicit commitment
to tackle the wider
determinants of
health
Inclusion grants
strategy
Commissioner
being developed
Analysis and
distribution of health
Domestic Abuse
spend on JSNA work
Strategic Review
Second
Food
programme
implemented
Strategy for the city
Council looking at
being developed
how it can increase
CCG Equalities
Sheffield
number of new
Continued
Action Plan
Employability
council homes
implementation of
Programme
Worklimits
on effective use
20mph
Physical health of people
of the pupil premium
with mental health
Fair City Campaign
problems and with
Progressing Sheffield
City Wide Learning Body
Group
learning disability priority
Housing Company
priority to improve
in CCGBus
plans 2014-16
Voluntary
communication,
Skills Made Easy
engagement,
andhidden Partnership more
Identifying
(apprenticeships)
of parents
carers
– strand of equitable distribution
elements of the City involvement
of bus resources
Carers Strategy
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Deal
Restorative Justice
Outcomes
College commitment
that 2.5% of their
Work on community
employees
will be
resilience
apprentices
What do people know about
Inequalities in Sheffield?
“Oh my goodness. That’s terrifying.”
asked the question:
“That’s crazy, isn’t it?”
“On average, a girl born in Ecclesall will live
around ten years longer than one born in
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this?
You wouldn’t expect to see that between two
different cities or in the same city.”
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Index of:
• Life expectancy
• Math & Literacy
• Infant mortality
• Homicides
• Imprisonment
• Teenage births
• Trust
• Obesity
• Mental illness
– incl. drug &
alcohol
addiction
• Social mobility
Index of health and social problems
Health and social problems are worse
in more unequal countries
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Wilkinson & Pickett, The Spirit Level
www.equalitytrust.org.uk
37%
the public
believefraud
“most
Job of
Seekers
Allowance
peoplewas
on 2.6%
the dole
are ‘fiddling’”
in 2013/14
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Pensions make up
more than third of
social security spend
97% of families
with one parent
out of work and
claiming child
benefit have 4 or
7
less children
Fairness Commission
Recommended
A campaign in the city about fairness which
has the following aspects:
• Inform people
• Promote the case for greater fairness
• A call to action
• Communicate what is being done to
change things for the better
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