INVITATION TO ATTEND
MANCHESTER AND THE RECORA INSTITUTE
Building Community Resilience and Safeguarding those most Vulnerable
FREE LEARNING AND DIALOGUE EVENTS FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS
Manchester has changed - The 2011 Census identifies that the city’s communities are becoming more diverse and that we are attracting more people to come and live in Manchester from across the world. This is fantastic news for a city that has a strong tradition of championing equality and diversity. For over twenty-five years Manchester has promoted and invested in equality through innovative work with minority communities. As a result of this, Manchester has made significant progress in the areas of equality and diversity and community cohesion.
However, the city is a very different place today and the impact of the significant financial cuts in Manchesterand welfare reform pose a risk to service delivery and relationships that have been built up over time. Coupled with this, we have experienced a number of counter terrorism related arrests, investigations and convictions along with subsequent police led operations to build community confidence. Across Greater Manchester we have also experienced a number of and mainly English Defence League demonstrations and campaigns along with heightened media coverage of issues such as child sexual exploitation which have fuelled tensions. Small pockets of the city are also experiencing low level campaigns from Irish Dissident republican groups. International incidents and events such as those in Syria, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Pakistan and more recently Algeria all have an impact on communities living in the UK and Manchester. They pose potential risks to the resilience of communities and preventissues around safeguarding those most vulnerable. Therefore, community engagement, leadership and cohesion play an important part in making sure that Manchester can continue to effectively deliver the priorities set out in the Manchester Community Strategy.
We recognise as a city that we need to continue to ensure that there is a strong partnership based response to the potential risks and challenges in the city going forward and that communities play a key role in identifying risks and priorities along with developing and delivering a community based response. This means that we need to continue to support the voluntary and community sector and community leaders (including elected members) to buildcommunity leadership and resilience and strengthen connection between neighbourhood delivery arrangements and communities.
Manchester City Council has been working with the Home Office (Office for Security and Counter Terrorism), Greater Manchester Police and the RecoRa Institute to develop a bespoke and local learning and dialogue event for community leaders (including elected members) in Manchester.
The learning and dialogue events are aimed at community leaders and representatives from the voluntary and community sectors that are supporting or working with individuals and communities and will focus on the following:
1.Build the understanding of community leaders about community cohesion and resilience related issues including information about extremist ideologies (far right and International extremism) and how these impact on communities
2.Support community leaders to identity and respond to such issues and ideologiesin Manchester.
3.Build understanding around the role of safeguarding of vulnerable individuals at risk or vulnerable of radicalisation or violent extremism (using real case studies)
Dates for dialogue and learning events – March 2013
Each event will be for the duration of three hours and the following dates have been scheduled to take place in March – April 2013.
Date / Time / Venue / RoomTues 19 March 2013 / 1:00 – 4:00 pm / Heron House / St Peter’s Room
Tues 19 March 2013 / 5:30 - 8:30 pm / Number One First Street / Rooms 2.02 & 2.03
Monday 25 March 2013 / 1:00 -4:00 pm / Heron House / John Dalton Room
Monday 25 March 2013 / 5:30 - 8:30 pm / Number One First Street / Rooms 2.02 & 2.03
Wednesday 17 April 2013 / 5:30 -8:30pm / Number One First Street / Rooms 2.02 & 2.03
How to book onto an event:
There are a limited number of places availablefor each event, so we therefore kindly request that you complete the attached booking form as soon as possible so that we can ensure that can allocate you a place.
PLEASE COMPLETE THE ATTACHED BOOKING FORM AND RETURN to: Naaira Zaman () by no later than Friday 8 March 2013.
A confirmation of your booking along with event details will be sent to you directly.
If you would like further information on this, please contact Naaira Zaman from the Crime and Disorder Team 0161 856 9267 or via the email address above
Building Community Resilience and Safeguarding those most Vulnerable
FREE LEARNING AND DIALOGUE EVENTS FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS
COURSE BOOKING FORM
NameRole Description
Contact Email
Contact Telephone
Organisation Name
Organisation Address
What area(s) does your group/organisation deliver services/support to:
Ancoats & clayton / Ardwick / Baguley / Bradford / Brooklands / BurnageCharlestown / Cheetham / Chorlton / ChorltonPark / City Centre / Crumpsall
Didsbury East / Didsbury West / Fallowfield / Gorton North / Gorton South / Harpurhey
Higher Blackley / Hulme / Levenshulme / Longsight / Miles Platting & Newton Heath / Moss Side
Moston / Northenden / Old Moat / Rusholme / Sharston / WhalleyRange
Withington / WoodhousePark
CITYWIDE
Please provide a brief description of the services and support you/your organisation provides and who your key customers are e.g young people, BME communities etc
Please provide an outline of the community cohesion / resilience issues and challenges you feel to be present in the areas you work
Please confirm the date(s) you are available to attend in order of 1, 2 and 3
Tuesday 19 March 2013 (1:00 - 4:00 pm) HERON HOUSE
Tuesday 19 March 2013 (5:30 - 8:30 pm) NUMBER ONE FIRST STREET
Monday 25 March 2013 (1:00 – 4:00 pm) HERON HOUSE
Monday 25 March 2013 (5:30 -- 8:30 pm) NUMBER ONE FIRST STREET
Wednesday 17 April 2013 (5:30 -- 8:30 pm) NUMBER ONE FIRST STREET