Mulhuddart Strategic Development and Implementation Plan
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2017 Mulhuddart Strategic Development and Implementation Plan A Plan for Mulhuddart To: Mulhuddart Priority Task Group Draft Report 17/11/2017 Nexus Research Cooperative CONTENTS Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................... v 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Approach ................................................................................................................................. 1 1.3 Strategy Development Stages, and Report COntents ............................................................. 2 2. Summary Profile of Mulhuddart ............................................................................................ 3 3. Interagency Cooperation and Service Challenges: The Service Provider perspective ............... 7 3.1 Views on Interagency Cooperation. ........................................................................................ 8 3.2 Barriers to Interagency Cooperation .................................................................................... 10 3.3 Improving Interagency Cooperation ..................................................................................... 10 3.4 Service Provision Gaps & Challenges .................................................................................... 11 4. Community Consultation: An Analysis .................................................................................. 12 4.1 HIghlights .............................................................................................................................. 12 4.2 Description of Consultation Process ..................................................................................... 14 4.3 Profile of Interviewees .......................................................................................................... 15 4.4 Levels of Community Connectedness ................................................................................... 20 4.5 Engaging with Services and Civic Society of Mulhuddart ..................................................... 24 4.6 Accessing Information and Services...................................................................................... 33 4.7 Service Access and Engagement ........................................................................................... 34 5. Research Conclusions .......................................................................................................... 35 5.1 Building Community Voices .................................................................................................. 35 5.2 Delivering on Gaps in Community Services .......................................................................... 37 5.3 Creating Community Spaces ................................................................................................. 38 5.4 Improving the Physical Living Environment .......................................................................... 38 6. Recommendations .............................................................................................................. 40 6.1 Building Community Voices .................................................................................................. 41 6.2 Delivering on Gaps in Community Services .......................................................................... 43 6.3 Creating Community Spaces ................................................................................................. 44 6.4 Improving the Physical Living Environment .......................................................................... 45 7. MPTG Strategy Oversight and Governance ........................................................................... 46 7.1 Establish a MPTG Executive .................................................................................................. 46 7.2 Establish a Strategy Implementation Team .......................................................................... 46 7.3 Formalise Membership and Convenor for each Subgroup ................................................... 46 7.4 Role of Mulhuddart Community Forum................................................................................ 47 Annexes:.................................................................................................................................... 48 Annex 1: Survey Methodology and Respondents ................................................................................. 48 Annex 2: Membership of the Task Group ............................................................................................. 50 Annex 3: Detailed Profile of the Mulhuddart Area ............................................................................... 51 LIST OF TABLES, CHARTS AND MAPS List of Tables Table 1: Service providers experience of referrals .............................................................................. 9 Table 2: Barriers to interagency cooperation.................................................................................... 10 Table 3 Age Profile of Interviewees (percentage breakdown, n=179) ............................................. 15 Table 4: Employment status of interviewees (percentage breakdown) ........................................... 19 Table 5: Reasons for choosing to live in Mulhuddart (n=172) .......................................................... 20 Table 6: Summary feelings regarding sense of community spirit (n=179) ........................................ 20 Table 7: Summary feelings regarding accommodation and environment (n=179) .......................... 21 Table 8: Engagement with Healthcare Services (n=134) ................................................................... 25 Table 9: Engagement with Community Centres (n=117) .................................................................. 25 Table 10: Engagement with Sport and Leisure Services (n=75) ........................................................ 27 Table 11: Engagement with Education, Training and Employment Services (n=55) ......................... 29 Table 12: Engagement with Specialised Support Services (n=42) ..................................................... 31 Table 13: Engagement with Youth Services (n=37) ........................................................................... 31 Table 14: Engagement with Justice and Policing Services (n=20) ..................................................... 32 Table 15: Service Providers Survey Responses by Target & issue ..................................................... 48 Table 16 Population of Mulhuddart (2011-2016) ............................................................................. 51 Table 17: Age breakdown of Mulhuddart (by number of population) ............................................. 51 Table 18: Age breakdown of Mulhuddart, Fingal and State (by proportion of population) ............. 51 Table 19: Type of Private Household Census 2011-2016 (by proportion of population) ................. 53 Table 20: Family Cycle Census 2011-2016 (by number and proportion of population) ................... 53 Table 21: Family Cycle Census 2011-2016 (by number and proportion of population) ................... 54 Table 22 Family Units in Mulhuddart with Children Under 15 (by number and proportion) ........... 55 Table 23: Family Units with Children Under 15 (by number and proportion) .................................. 55 Table 24: Usually Resident Population by Nationality ...................................................................... 56 Table 25: Ethnic or Cultural Background ........................................................................................... 56 Table 26: Languages Spoken ............................................................................................................. 57 Table 27: Ability to Speak English ...................................................................................................... 57 Table 28: People aged 15 and over who have ceased education in Mulhuddart ............................. 58 Table 29: Number of households with internet ................................................................................ 58 Table 30: Permanent private households by type of occupancy ...................................................... 60 Table 31: Types of accommodation .................................................................................................. 60 Table 32: Number of rooms per household ...................................................................................... 60 List of Figures Figure 1: Tyrellstown and Mulhuddart EDs ......................................................................................... 3 Figure 2: Small Areas by Pobal Deprivation Index ............................................................................... 4 Figure 3: Areas where interviewees were living (n=179): ................................................................. 16 Figure 4: Duration living in Mulhuddart Area (n=173) ...................................................................... 16 Figure 5: Map of Mulhuddart Research Area ...................................................................................