Useful links

To do your own social exclusion research, check out our links to useful websites, listed below, and scroll on down to download  helpful publications that people have drawn our attention to.

To suggest additions, contact us.

Links

Publications

  • Action on mental health
    12 Fact-Sheets on ways to reduce the experience of social exclusion among people affected by Mental Health problems.  From ODPM.
  • Toolkit for reaching priority and excluded children
    This toolkit launched by Together for Children provides practical advice and guidance for local authorities. The toolkit highlights the importance of understanding and analysing the local situation, consulting widely, and the need to treat children, their parents and carers as individuals rather than make assumptions based on their membership of certain groups.

    Checklists provide questions and discussion points for local authorities, children's centre and partner organisations, covering groups such as teenage parents, fathers, minority and ethic families, disabled children and parents, partners and families of prisoners, parents with drug or alcohol problems and the homeless and families in temporary accommodation.

  • Multi-Ethnic Devon - A Rural Handbook
    Packed with statistics, quotes and practical suggestions, this Handbook details the learning gathered from 3 years of research with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) residents of Devon's 7 rural districts.  It also examines with service providers themselves, the issues they need to address to overcome institutional racism and offers tools for improving the way that impact of services on the BME population is measured.

    Printed copies of the summary booklet and of the Handbook can also be ordered from Devon Racial Equality Council on 01392 422566 
  • Sign Vision 1, 2 and 3
    Conferences Report.  The story of Sign Vision Events and the Devon Charter for British Sign Language.
  • Faith, Cohesion and Community Development
    Faith and its role in society have become central to policy debates around cohesion and integration. This evaluation of the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund will be of interest to anyone working with faith communities.

    If you work in a local authority, or you’re a funder looking for ways to involve faith groups in building cohesion, then this book contains valuable information for you on:

    - The relationship between government and the faith sector
     -Language and being understood
    - Providing local community spaces
    - Interfaith working
    - Capacity Building and funded groups
    - Diversity of the sector
  • The Extended Neighbourhood
    This study of experience and needs among the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Trans population of the South West Peninsula gives the reader important insight into the impact of homophobia and the measures services must take to tackle it.  The Intercom Trust also provide a range of other study reports and guidance notes with further essential   background information and advice.
  • Devon BME Directory
    This directory contains brief descriptions of 35 organisations working with BME communities across Devon. You can also find information about relevant local government agencies, BME forums and diversity groups,  finding an English class and reporting a Hate crime.

    It will help you help individuals and families from among Devon’s ethnic minorities to find support when they need it – whether it is help for children at school; help for isolated women stuck at home; help with language and citizenship. But it is not just meant for individuals and families – it is also there to help groups link up with each other and to encourage more partnership work between the statutory and the voluntary and community sectors.
  • Who makes up the South West? Myth Buster
    TUC Myth Buster coverThis Myth Buster from the TUC answers head-on the assumptions and questions that underpin prejudice about migration in the South West.  You can order pre printed copies from southwest@tuc.org.uk  or download it here. 
  • Integrating new migrants: communicating important information – part 2: what’s out there
    IDeA have published guidance on producing welcome packs, and this latest document has, on p5, a very useful checklist of the top 20 things that migrants want – the top three are ‘Getting a job’, ‘English language learning’ and ‘Where to get advice and information’ – which serves as a valuable pointer to priorities for developing services.
    Other valuable information also at: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=8865883#contents-13.
  • Safe from Bullying
    Guidance for local authorities and other strategic leaders on reducing bullying in the community.

    Bullying does not only happen in normal school hours, it can happen anywhere. Children who are badly bullied in school are more likely than others to be bullied outside of it too.  This guidance outlines the possible bullying that might occur in the community and describes steps to prevent it and how to respond to it effectively.
  • Deaf Devon

    In celebration of Deaf History Month this booklet is packed with inspirational biographies from Deaf communities across Devon and with details of support services in the county.

    Download it here.

     


  • Autism - Challenge Perceptions
    This guide to living with Autism was published as an independent colour supplement with the Easter 2010 Sunday Telegraph, as part of 2010 World Autism Day

    You can download it by clicking here.