Our Lives Research - Partner Responses

• Consider the safety of BAME families when offering housing.
• Ensure transparency about criteria used to allocate resources to BAME groups.
• Support Syrian women to report discrimination.
• Set up an organisation for women from the Indian sub-continent.

What we are doing

The Council considers the needs of BAME people and families when offering housing. This could include harassment or abuse, social, community or family support.

The safety and security of every applicant is considered when making an offer of housing and where potential safety concerns are known these are actively considered and addressed.

A review of the Grant Award Programme is underway including exploring where a more targeted approach to funding may be required (i.e certain services for BAME community).

Lanarkshire has almost 40 Third Party Reporting centres, where victims and witnesses can report hate crime, without contacting the police directly.

The Resettlement team has provided sessions to one school who made contact and further awareness sessions will be offered to schools.

We have a partnership with the Ethnic Minority Law Centre to provide access to legal services and justice for our BAME communities.

We support NL Muslim Women and Family Alliance.

What we plan to do

We are keen to explore how we could work with and support an approach to resourcing specific BAME activity and approaches to enhance decision making through the lens of equalities groups including allocation of resources.

The partners will support women from the Indian Sub-continent who wish to form such a group.

"There is racism and some kids have felt the wrath of it more than others but also if the ladies are in the hijab it's worse."

"My neighbours are very good and they have been here for a long time.  They have become good neighbours so I feel safe in this community."