Countywide Priorities
Tackling Inequalities
Tackling inequalities by improving living standards, health, educational attainment, access to affordable housing and connectivity.
Integrated Care System alignment on inequalities - Warwickshire Public Health was able to act as a very early influencer in the shaping of the C&W Health Inequalities Strategic Plan for our health and care system. We brokered a seamless alignment between our ‘Levelling Up’ geographies and core communities of interest, and the NHS’s ‘Core 20 + 5’ model – and, critically, the NHS funding that is attached to reducing healthcare inequalities. Our role in supporting the ICB and the forming Warwickshire Care Collaborative to allocate this money to both healthcare and preventative models to reduce inequalities means that we can reduce duplication and add value to these overlapping agendas, and benefit more people.
Warwickshire Skills Hub – Fair Chance Employment - The Warwickshire Skills Hub employs a number of business advisors that offer free skills and training sessions to help level the playing field for under-represented groups to gain employment more easily. The programme supports: foreign nationals as part of the Resettlement Programme, people with autism and learning difficulties, ex-armed forces personnel, armed forces spouses and partners, young people out of education, employment or training, people over 50 looking to get back into work, care leavers, young carers, women returning to work and people who have been made redundant.
Serious Violence Prevention Training - Around 70 people have so far received serious violence prevention training across several partner agencies: Fire and Rescue, WCC Community Safety, WCC Trading Standards, WCC Localities Team, Victim Support and elected members from District and Borough Councils. This training has improved understandings around serious violence, identifying warning signs of people being drawn into county lines or violent crime, and how to refer to the appropriate safeguarding and support services. More than 50 additional people are due to receive the same training in December 2023 and January 2024, with more dates to be announced soon.
Violence Prevention – Identity Programme - Being delivered in schools across the county by mentors and WCC Community Safety team members, the Warwickshire Identity Model assesses young people against five aspects that shape their identity, and which may help identify those who could be at risk of being exposed to less positive influences. Schools, such as Stratford School, Myton School, Campion School and others, have made referrals that have allowed 1:1 or small group work sessions to be undertaken over an 8-week course to support potentially vulnerable young people. Agencies such as Rugby Borough Community Safety/Wardens, Victim Support or the Rugby Early Help Team are amongst the service deliverers that are trained to deliver this programme.
