Managing Death in the Muslim Community in Tower Hamlets - Improving after life services
Social Action for Health
This report describes the work of Social Action for Health (SAfH) in
addressing the concerns of local Muslim people in relation to the way
death is being managed in Tower Hamlets. Emerging from community Health
Guide sessions with the Bengali and Somali communities, Social Action
for Health undertook a piece of exploratory work to look at the way
death is being managed by statutory services and how services are
addressing the needs of the Muslim community. The research aimed to
identify key factors that aggravate rather than ease the process of
coping with death and suggest how things might improve. What has
emerged is a complex system of interlocking services that people only
encounter when managing a death. Implications for further action are
highlighted for clinicians and professionals from the statutory sector,
for non-statutory bodies and for local people.
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Accessible banking services
The Banking Code is under review and Citizens Advice
Bureaux have said that the opportunity should be used to take into account
those who find it difficult to access services.
To see the Citizens Advice Social Policy Publication click here
To see the Guardian article click here
To see the BBC article click here
‘Smarter Funding for Schools’ report published
The London Councils,
who published the report, say that children from London’s poorest families are missing out
because government funding distribution fails to target money where it is most
needed.
Read the 24 dash article here
The Reception and
Integration of New Migrant Communities’
The report, published by the Institute for Public
Policy Research, looks at new migrant communities in ten locations in the UK, focussing
particularly on key lessons from the response of public authorities as well as
the tensions arising from the arrival and settlement of these new communities.
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'Tackling low educational achievement' - Robert Cassen, Geeta Kingdom - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The authors found boys outnumber girls as low achievers by 20%; white British boys comprise nearly half of all low achievers; there are also achievement problems among some minority ethnic groups. The report addresses the ongoing debate about education policies in
relation to reducing low achievement. It uses the National Pupil
Database and related data to examine four different measures of low
achievement, and a profile of low achievement is offered.
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