1 / 10

MERSEYSIDE SOCIAL INCLUSION OBSERVATORY (MSIO)

MERSEYSIDE SOCIAL INCLUSION OBSERVATORY (MSIO).

waseem
Download Presentation

MERSEYSIDE SOCIAL INCLUSION OBSERVATORY (MSIO)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. MERSEYSIDE SOCIAL INCLUSION OBSERVATORY (MSIO)

  2. The Merseyside Social Inclusion Observatory (MSIO) - based jointly between the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool and Expanding Horizons in the city centre - is a major new development on Merseyside which brings together a unique partnership of organisations from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to identify better information about, and understanding of, what leads to social exclusion and routes away from it.

  3. By its very nature, MSIO is an innovative, responsive, interdisciplinary research centre with a research focus on policy-relevant research, effective community engagement with excluded groups and best practice about social inclusion/exclusion, particularly through the development of linkages with regeneration-focused policies, programmes and activities. Through its work it draws together a broad range of staff with considerable experience in the fields of urban and community regeneration, planning policy and practice, housing development, environmental crime and socio-economic analysis. MSIO itself currently has 7 staff members, including Research, Policy and Community Engagement specialists, as well as those involved in effective information collation and dissemination.

  4. MSIO’s work is rapidly expanding, and has involved working closely with the Government Office for the North West (GONW), the North West Regional Development Agency (NWDA), the Greater Merseyside Learning and Skills Council, local authorities and other voluntary and community sector bodies.

  5. Key activities that MSIO will take forward at a pan-Merseyside level include:

  6.  Social Exclusion: A Geodemographic Analysis - the use of census and other small area data to construct national classifications of residential neighbourhoods based on their social, economic and demographic characteristics. •  Social Inclusion: breaking the inter-generational cycle – an examination of inter-generational poverty and disadvantage in the Merseyside NRS areas with a particular focus on factors which provide early signals of future disadvantage. •  Identification of neighbourhoods with high levels of social exclusion – identification of the wards/neighbourhoods on Merseyside with the highest incidence of social exclusion and causal factors. •  The Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Population: - the employment of detailed data from the 2001 Census to produce a profile of the BME population, including housing, labour market, NVQ attainment and travel to work/learning patterns of the black and minority ethnic population. •  Social Inclusion Initiatives in Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education - Measuring Impact and Identifying Good Practice – a focus on the impact of current and recent initiatives intended to promote social inclusion in the education system. •  Strategic analysis/assessment of the impact of specific policy initiatives and programmes such as Neighbourhood Renewal/ Housing Market Renewal Initiative. •  Identification of ‘what works and what doesn’t’ best practice social inclusion activities/interventions to be delivered by LSPs across Merseyside as part of neighbourhood renewal and other integrated programmes. •  Identifying a prevention strategy for social exclusion and deprivation across Merseyside, by analysing the root causes of deprivation, identifying actions needed and resources available to organisations on Merseyside. •  The implications of the Mid Term Evaluation of the Objective 1 Programme on Merseyside and embedding Social Inclusion.

More Related