It is an attempt to assemble substantial data about the landscape of the Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in North Somerset.
The report highlights the role that such knowledge should play in service planning, commissioning, provision, and service delivery by the statutory agencies. The report’s strength as a scoping exercise is that it draws on SREC’s links and particular involvement with the BME communities, providing us with a good ‘on the ground’ idea of the size, characteristics, and needs of the BME population in North Somerset as communicated to SREC in various ways. It is our view that the importance of such data in facilitating fairer and more equitable service provision for all cannot be over emphasised, and there is quite a lot of relevant information contained in this report. But we also freely accept that there are still gaps in that knowledge.
