Equalities Board Publications
This is where you can find an archive of reports and guides written by the Equalities Board team and Equalities Board members. All reports that we produced also have simpler summaries that we try to make accessible for people with different needs.
Equalities and Ageing Digest #4 - Equality in Transport
From April to March 2020, we are producing a series of short papers taking an equalities perspective on a topic of interest to older people. There is also a simpler summary of each paper. These will form resources for the GMOPN, as part of the transition and legacy phase of the Equalities Board.
Scroll down on the same page to read Digest #1 - Covid Unequal Impacts, Digest #2 - Housing, Inequality and Ageing, and Digest #3 - Health and Social Care, Inequality and Ageing
How we make more accessible summaries of research reports
In July 2019 EB members took part in a focus group on how to make research reports more accessible. You can read about the focus group and what we discussed here.
Accessing our research reports
Wherever possible we publish screen-reader friendly pdf documents.
Scroll down to read and download these Equalities Board publications:
- 2020: Value of Small Community-Led Equalities Research, and simpler summary - an evaluation of the Ageing Equally? shorter research projects by Equalities Board member organisations
- 2020: "Ageing Equally?" Equalities Board Research Reports 2019, and simpler summaries - shorter Ageing Equally? research project reports by Equalities Board member organisations
- 2019: How to Work Inclusively to Make Communities Age-Friendly, and more accessible summary - Ambition for Ageing briefing paper by Equalities Board team, drawing out learning from the 2019 equalities review process
- 2018: Equalities Board Research Reports 2018, and more accessible summaries - reports from Equalities Board member organisations short research projects
- 2017: Asset-based Approaches and Inequalities - briefing paper produced by Ambition for Ageing based on research by Equalities Board staff
The Value of Small Community-Led Equalities Research
This report evaluates what the Equalities Board learned from managing the five "Ageing Equally?" research projects that were done by Equalities Board member organisations. There is also a simpler summary of the research report.
The Value of Small Community-Led Equalities Research
Simpler summary of The Value of Small Community-Led Equalities Research
"Ageing Equally?" Equalities Board Research projects
In 2019 Ambition for Ageing commissioned 15 research projects to find out "What makes a neighbourhood age-friendly for people from minority communities?" The Equalities Board commissioned and managed five research projects by Equalities Board member organisations. These are their reports
Click on the links below to download the reports and summaries.
Ethnic Health Forum: "Social and Cultural Barriers to Accessing Services Within Bedoun (Stateless) Arabic Speaking Communities"
EHF researched barriers to
accessing services for older
people in the Kuwaiti Bedoun
community in Central
Manchester,
Ethnic Health Forum full report
Ethnic Health Forum simpler summary
Europia: "Skills and Assets of Polish People Aged 50+ in Greater Manchester"
Europia researched the assets and skills of Polish people aged 50+ across Greater Manchester.
St George's Centre: "What Makes A Neighbourhood A Good Place to Grow Older for People With Mental Health Issues?"
St George's Centre in Bolton researched what makes an age-friendly neighbourhood for older people with long term mental illness who live in the BL1 postcode area of Bolton.
St George's Centre full report
St George's Centre simpler summary
Visible Outcomes: "Our Elders, Our Salford"
Visible Outcomes, a refugee-support organisation, researched what makes an age-friendly neighbourhood for refugees over 50 years old who live in Salford.
Visible Outcomes simpler summary
Wai Yin: "On Lok Wo 安樂窩 - A Safe and Happy Home"
Wai Yin researched what Chinese older people, especially disabled people and those who speak different community languages, need for wellbeing in old age.
How to Work Inclusively to Make Communities Age-Friendly
This briefing document is a more accessible version of our Amition for Ageing briefing document Working Inclusively to Make Communities Age-Friendly, which is a summary of what the Equalities Board has learned about how to build age-friendly communities, and work with equalities, in a way that is fully inclusive of people from marginalised and minority communities.
Click here to download our simpler briefing document.
Click here to go to the AfA website to download our original briefing document.
Equalities Board Research Projects 2018
In September 2017, Ambition for Ageing gave the Equalities Board some money for five community groups to research issues that are important to those communities. The projects ran from November 2017 - February 2018. The Equalities Board team produced more accessible summaries of each report.
Click on the links below to download the reports and summaries:
Europia : “Life experiences and challenges of Polish migrants over 50”
Europia more accessible research summary
Henshaws Community Services : Out of Sight
Henshaws final research report
Henshaws more accessible research summary
Manchester Deaf Centre : “Ageing Deaf Access”
Manchester Deaf Centre final research report
Manchester Deaf Centre more accessible report summary
Manchester People First : “Join Us, Join In”
Manchester People First final research report
Ideas for better meetings guide
Making Information easier for everyone guide
Manchester People First more accessible report summary
Wai Yin : “Sat Cung 失聰 – Hearing Loss”
Asset-based Approaches and Inequalities
This briefing document looks at how asset-based community development (ABCD) approaches can exacerbate (make worse) inequalities within communities. The report's recommendations include:
- people from marginalised groups need support to be involved in designing projects and mapping assets in their communities
- it is helpful to target marginalised and minority groups, and more socially isolated people to make asset mapping and co-production more meaningful
- well-planned processes for meaningful participation are important, but they take time and need good support.
This briefing draws on work across the AFA programme, including by the Equalities Team.
Click here to download a copy of the briefing document.
