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BECON (Black Minority Ethnic Community Organisations Network) is a region wide organisation for the Black Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary and community sector in the North East of England.
BECON provides services to BME communities addressing disadvantage, discrimination, exclusion, inequalities and racism. Services are geared to support individuals to participate more fully and inclusively in the economic, social and cultural developments of their localities. BECON strives to bring about a more inclusive society promoting equality, diversity, human rights and social justice.
Newcastle Office, 34 Grainger Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 8RY
Telephone number: 0191 27 22 339
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The Best Family for Every Child: Black Children in Care |
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Date: Monday 18th June, 2012
Time: 12.30 – 4.30 pm
Venu: Committee Room,Civic CentreBarras Bridge,Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 2BN
There is increasing concern about the time that it takes children to be get out of local authority care. There has been a particular focus on the experiences of black and minority ethnic children which has been addressed in the Action Plan for Adoption. This event aims to provide those working on policy development or service delivery for Looked After Children an opportunity to explore the issues behind the adoption of black children by white families.
It also looks at the challenge of increasing the pool of black and minority ethnic adopters and fosterers in the North East.
Places at this event are limited, so please book. If you’d like to know more, contact Dean T Huggins, Partnership Policy Officer at BECON (
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or 0191 272 2339)
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"Shameful" Plastic Waste to be tackled by government |
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The government will call on councils and businesses to beef up plastic recycling capacity and better realise the financial value arising from the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste plastics discarded each year.
In a speech to be delivered at the headquarters of Recoup, a charity that promotes and supports plastic recycling initiatives, Defra minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach will argue that waste plastics represent one of the easiest and most cost-effective areas for the UK to meet its binding recycling targets.
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Women fleeing violence failed by 'efficiency' cuts |
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Now that the Supporting People (SP) Fund is no longer ring fenced, what is the future for domestic violence services? Services like Newham Asian Women’s Project, that support women and children fleeing violence rely on this fund for their survival.
A survey by Women’s Aid found that 37% of domestic violence services were facing serious cuts. With SP budgets being reduced in some parts of the country by as much as 50%, the risk of homelessness, repeat victimisation and homicide are escalated for vulnerable women and children.
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The Budget announcements of last month have promised to re-balance the economy and declared that Britain is ‘open to business’ by lowering corporation tax and the rate that those in the highest tax bracket have to pay. However, for the majority, the austerity continues and includes previous public expenditure cuts that will reduce public sector employment by 700, 000.New proposals on regional pay plan to lower salaries to public sector workers in poorer parts of the country and deepen the North/South divide.All in it together?This throws into doubt (for anyone still doubting) the claim that ‘we are all in this together’. The slow recovery of the economy means that the idea wealth will ‘trickle down’ becomes even more flawed than in in times of prosperity.The Fawcett Society has shown the disproportionate impact of austerity on women. Figures revealing that half of young black males are unemployed and that child poverty is still expected to rise by 400,000 by 2015, provide clear statistics that we are far from all being in this together. As Faiza Shaheen, of the new economics foundation has shown: the Treasury’s own distributional analysis reveals that the tax, tax credit and benefit changes imposed by the Coalition government since coming to power are regressive, i.e. the poorest three sections of our society are most negatively affected. And the evidence shows that that this is disproportionately made up on people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities.
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