One Nottingham Bulletin One Nottingham Is the Strategic Partnership for Nottingham
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April 2016 One Nottingham Bulletin One Nottingham is the Strategic partnership for Nottingham Inside this Bulletin: ON Board 1 Jane Todd – The Highlights and the Lowlights Message This month has been hectic for us here at Young Creative 2 One Nottingham. Entries for the Young Creative Awards closed on 21st March Awards & News and we’ve had more entries this year than Safe Families 3 we’ve ever had (more information about for Children this on page two)! Dolly Parton 4 When I was Chief Executive of the Nottingham City Council I was involved in launching Women in Nottingham. Six Local News 6 years went by and we decided it was time Events 6-7 to relaunch this empowering group, but felt it was time to take the group in a different direction. The relaunch took place on 24th March where women from Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, who contribute to this County with their brains, dynamism and businesses came together. There was a lot of positive discussion about why each of us think this group is important, and most importantly how we can contribute to the next generation of business women being even more successful than the current one. When the group was first launched we had a mentor scheme in place in order to guide young women in the direction they wanted to go. This time however, we think we can do better. In particular we want to inspire young women by building networks with particularly less advantaged schools, where they can come and learn from us and ask any questions they need answering. Each member of our group will devise a profile that tells their story, showing young girls that we have all jumped through hoops to get where we are today. We will make it available on our website and through schools to show the different career paths women can take, in particular paths they may not have even thought were even careers. We think it’s so crucial to break gender norms by targeting children from a very young age, by showing these young girls and boys that women are firefighters, pilots, engineers and doctors too and that they should not be restricted because of their gender. Less than a third of women make up senior positions and we want the next generation of women to make up half of the senior positions — because we can do it! Jane Todd - Chair of the One Nottingham Board ONE NOTTINGHAM PAGE 2 Message from the Board The March meeting of the One Nottingham Board started the discussion by focusing on Education in Nottingham, in particular the success of BME attainment. The BME group as a whole recorded increases in attainment comparing 2013 and 2014 to 2015. Statistics were given to the board with thanks to Dan Skurok—Principal Analyst (Education). According to BME attainment by ward, it highlighted 75% of BME pupils achieved 5+ A*-C grades from Wollaton East and Lenton Abbey. EAL is a regional priority and included within BME but hidden within all of the high level groups (especially Asian, Chinese, Black and White). Data shows that EAL learners do comparatively well in Nottingham. There is a steady increase, which is above City overall attainment and close to National, with KS2 BME attainment. The KS4 BME attainment for the moment is erratic, but 2015 results show BME attainment at 4.3% above City overall attainment. Furthermore, the attainment of Mixed heritage (and White) young people at KS4 in Nottingham remains a concern. This data has been gathered due to “extended” ethnic groups (as used in schools), which allows for more sophisticated analysis. Part of this BME success has been down to supplementary school support from the Nottingham City Council. There was an agreement from board members that this would be a positive thing to help continue. BME population has risen over the last three years at primary and secondary level with pupils now constituting 50% of Nottingham City’s school population. Board members felt that in order to tackle key issues in schools there needs to be a focus on early years. How the board members can engage with this will be discussed at the next board meeting. Helen Hill from the City Council Policy Team provided a presentation on the Citizens Survey — ‘What Do Our Citizens Think?’ to all board members. Positive statistics were given: 85% of people are satisfied with their local area as a place to live 86% of people agree they can rely on their friends, family or neighbours to provide help. These statistics were then discussed and questions came up concerning how the data gathered from the survey would be distributed to the public and business networks. Helen expressed that in order to get the data distributed she would be very happy to come along to businesses and discuss the Citizens Survey. If this is something you think may benefit your business or your team of people, please do not hesitate to contact her on [email protected] There has been some concern recently regarding the strategic voice of the Voluntary and Community Sector and how that voice can be best used. There was a unanimous agreement that board members want the voice of the Voluntary and Community to be engaging, responsible and strategic. Andrew Redfern will develop this with CVS and other strategic VCS agencies. The proposed changes to city police structures were discussed at the One Nottingham Board meeting, in regards to the way that the police will be organised in the city. A proposal has been made to merge a number of functions with the Northamptonshire and Leicestershire police forces in order to manage the force through “themes”. In doing this the police will be centralising a number of functions and propose to remove the Nottingham City Division and the Chief Superintendent position for the city. The Board were invited to discuss the issue. Mike Manley, the present Nottingham City Chief Superintendent, responded on behalf of the police but prefaced his comments as he had only seen the paper at the Board meeting. He agreed to take comments back to the police and to feed comments through to the council and the CDP on the paper. The board agreed to return to their own organisations to feedback and consult on how they wished to respond to the proposals. The board also authorised Jane Todd to write to the Chief Constable to distribute the key messages and to ask him to organise a public consultation around the proposals. Don’t forget to cast your vote in the Police and Crime Commissioners election on 5th May 2016. Register to vote here. The paper is available as usual to download on www.onenottingham.org.uk ONE NOTTINGHAM PAGE 3 Record Number of Entries for the Young Creative Awards! What a hectic couple of weeks it has been collecting all your wonderful entries! You guys have helped us set another record with receiving more entries this year than we ever have! Over 300 — way to go! Each year the Young Creative Awards just gets bigger and better, and without all our young creatives entering we wouldn’t be where we are today. Our judges are now busy looking through all the entries to decide on the winners and most excitingly the Young Creative of the Year! The winners won’t be announced until the night however, to keep it a surprise! This year the Young Creative Awards will be held at the Nottingham Playhouse on the 18th May. This is a free event and everyone is welcome, so bring your friends and family because you should all be proud of the commitment you have given to your entries. You will need to book your tickets through the Nottingham Playhouse. The event will start at 5pm with entertainment, music and food to kick it off. Guests will also have the chance to look at some of the entries we have received and get a feel for the different perceptions young creatives have had of the theme ‘Goals and Dreams’. The ceremony will then go on to begin at 6:15pm and will entail special guests presenting the awards for each of the ten categories, live music and dance. To end the night on a high, the Young Creative of the Year will be crowned. f: /ycreatives t: @nottinghamyca w: www.youngcreativeawards.org Women Reclaim the Pitch — City of Football News City of Football’s first women’s only night proves to be a huge success, with hundreds of women attending. There was football activities, comedians, live music, dance and a five-a-side football tournament. There to launch the event and support the girls and women was England and Nott's County defender Laura Bassett. Nottingham City of Football are using the success of the women’s game to help get more girls involved in the sport. Now every Tuesday evening 6-9pm there is a girls-only zone at the Forest Sports, where various sessions are held for women and girls 16+ of all abilities to help you try and #findyourfootball. For more information on setting up teams or joining a current team please email [email protected] Laura was really excited when she heard about the launch night and believes women’s football is thriving at the moment because of the coverage from the World Cup last year. Laura went on to say that “events like these are vital for giving women out there an outlet to come and take part in football, or give the game a try if it’s something they’ve never had the opportunity to do before”.