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Analysis of demographic information available on the population of Disabled people living in the West Midlands

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Analysis of demographic information available on the population of Disabled people living in the West Midlands
16th March 2011
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Title:	Analysis of demographic information available on the population of Disabled people living in the West Midlands
Date submitted:	13/05/2010
Status:	In progress
Priority:	High
Description	There are about 614,000 Disabled adults aged over 16 and under 65 living in the West Midlands, a prevalence of between 9% and 26% per local authority area (source Proportion of working age people who are disabled, July 2008 to June 2009 ONS Annual Population Survey). There is statistical and survey data available on individual aspects of Disabled people’s lives (work, unemployment, education, health, access to services). However it is not collated to form a quantitative and qualitative West Midlands picture of this population which could be used for service provision and as an agent for change.

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Oliver Nicholls said on Fri 28 May 2010 at 12:18 pm
Richard Wilson (Chair of the Population & Society group) will liaise with Stephen Howarth at the Observatory to take this forward through a chapter in the 2010 edition of ‘Key health data’ and the Observatory's State of the region equality and diversity work.

Olga Kozlowska said on Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 1:37 pm
'Here to Stay: people with learning disabilities from ethnic minority communities including new migrants' is a research project addressing this research gap in regards to one group of disabled people living in our region. The Big Lottery Fund has commissioned the Association for Real Change and the researchers at the University of Wolverhampton to find out more about the extent of help that is needed in this group of people. As a result of this, prevalence data is collected from the public and voluntary sectors in the Black Country and the experiences of the service providers, carers and the service users are explored.The project has a potential to assess the needs in the population and bring knowledge how to promote better ways of engaging with new migrants with learning disabilities and other ethnic minority groups to help meet their future needs.

Olga Kozlowska said on Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 1:37 pm

'Here to Stay: people with learning disabilities from ethnic minority communities including new migrants' is a research project addressing this research gap in regards to one group of disabled people living in our region. The Big Lottery Fund has commissioned the Association for Real Change and the researchers at the University of Wolverhampton to find out more about the extent of help that is needed in this group of people. As a result of this, prevalence data is collected from the public and voluntary sectors in the Black Country and the experiences of the service providers, carers and the service users are explored.The project has a potential to assess the needs in the population and bring knowledge how to promote better ways of engaging with new migrants with learning disabilities and other ethnic minority groups to help meet their future needs.

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