Good Relations Strategy and Plan 2018-2021

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The Audit Our Shared Community Consultation feedback included: • Council should further recognise minority community perceptions of lack of belonging including from within the PUL community; • Segregation was still a major factor about how people in the district lived their lives, with the need to encourage cross community contact and understanding, and to deal with the consequences of segregated living and schooling as constant feedback themes; • While the award of such a sizeable small grants programme was welcomed, there was concern that it did not allow for cross Council area applications. This included feedback from those who thought that the current process disadvantaged the BME communities that were spread out across the Council area, and hindered significant strategic applications from organisations wishing to work across the Council area rather than a specific electoral area. • Some decisions by Council, and subsequent public comment that gained media traction were raised as an obstacle to cross community confidence in the Council and Council’s commitment to a shared society. • Anniversaries played an important part in all narratives and many important anniversaries were on the horizon that may be difficult for people in the Council area including 50 years since civil rights marches and Bloody Sunday, and 100 years since partition. Council may wish to explore its approach to the anniversaries to occupy space that may otherwise be occupied by others. • Travellers and the Traveller community generally were often misunderstood and had higher levels of discrimination and abuse directed at them than any other minority community; • Council should be mindful of its role in supporting structured race relations programmes to improve relations between BME and Traveller communities and the general population. This should include the education of staff and Councillors (including those involved in planning and licensing) as well as programmes more generally. 10 10 NIHRC Travellers’ Accommodation in Northern Ireland, 2017
DCSDC Good Relations 29 Our Safe Community Consultation feedback included: • There is ongoing need to promote community policing especially in those communities traditionally sceptical and with younger people. • Bonfire management and the management of flags and emblems were raised by many consultees but, it seems, with less concern than in the past. Our Cultural Expression • The display of flags and emblems was a factor but perhaps less so than in previous years, and confined to particular areas. • Some feedback suggested some areas were not considered shared including in Derry/Londonderry and Strabane. • Cultural celebrations were still problematic from one side of the community toward another, although potentially less so than in previous years. Consultation feedback included: • The Traveller community was identified by many as one grouping that was most misunderstood and disrespected, with various studies on an island and Northern Ireland wide basis showing significant mental health, health, educational and inclusion needs; while the attitudinal surveys carried out as part of this audit demonstrated that Travellers were perceived as the most discriminated against category. 11 • The inclusion of BME communities was identified as a continuing priority for the Council area including the approach to refugees and newcomers. • The PUL community also believed that there was a need for enhanced sense of belonging in the District and highlighted some decisions by Council and attitudes to cultural expression as reasons why the PUL community could feel isolated at times. • A need to continue to make Irish language available as a means of cultural expression but to provide opportunity for members of the PUL community to be involved both through geographic location and with sessions in an inter-active and lowlevel nature. • Bonfires continue to require focus though not as significant as general cross-community and relationship building work. • Language for BME community members was regarded as still a significant barrier to their integration. 11 Appendices and The All Ireland Traveller Health Study (UCD, 2010)
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