Migrants can attend the Migrant Access Programme Board and other boards and contribute their lived experience. For example, the Migrant Health work of the broader Public Health Directorate, ensures that residents with migrant/minority backgrounds are represented by:
- Monitoring access to health and wellbeing services and outcomes to assess whether there is equitable access to services and whether any health inequalities exist.
- Conducting engagement with communities from different ethnic background. Some examples include: Get Set Leeds engagement, BME Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Needs Assessment and Insight into the Housing issues affecting migrants.
One example is in increasing representation is collaboration between Lincoln Green (one of the priority neighbourhoods with a significant migrant community) core team and Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (LTHT), one of Leeds’ Anchor Institutions. Core team partners (employment and skills, statutory partners and local third sector organisations) worked closely with LTHT to develop a targeted recruitment programme to support people into jobs within the facilities and estates department. This approach has been successful and from the pilot, 29 people from target wards were successful in securing employment and a second cohort on programme saw 20 people recruited. This way of working has been identified at a national level as good practice and is cited in the NHS Long Term Plan. Work is underway to connect Anchor institutions in other neighbourhoods around Leeds.
