ISCRE (the Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality) became a registered charity in 1996, having started in 1977 under the name ‘Ipswich & District Committee for Community Relations’. In 1982 the name changed to ‘Ipswich and District Community Relations Council’ and again in 1987 to its present name, ISCRE.
ISCRE’S main purpose is to work towards:
- the elimination of unlawful discrimination on the grounds of people’s race, sex, disability, age, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief.
- promoting equality of opportunity and good relations between all persons and to advance and organise co-operation in the achievement of the aforesaid purposes.
We also help organisations, agencies and employers in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors, to understand the extent and nature of discrimination and inequality experienced by individuals and groups in fields such as the criminal justice system, housing, employment, education, health and social care. The aim is to encourage them to implement policies and practices which will eliminate discrimination and promote equality of opportunity, and good relations, between all persons.
www.iscre.org.ukGrants
Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality
Health Justice Partnership in Suffolk
Grant: £19,855
November 13, 2017
The project aims to improve understanding of how social prescribing in health settings could increase access to social welfare legal advice in Suffolk and reduce health spend by researching current practice and building a robust business case for local health commissioners to fund local advice services to develop and run an effective model of future delivery.
Currently, social prescribing activities in Suffolk are small scale, sporadic and little is known about their nature or the extent of their impact, which is a challenge for advice services seeking to develop a more cohesive, strategic structure for support. The project will address this by identifying existing activities within the county and, by using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, summarise the nature of these activities and the extent to which they are successful in increasing access to social welfare legal advice.
The project will examine the challenges faced by those providing social prescribing activities in the county and summarise perceived gaps and areas for improvement, in addition to potential opportunities, with a view to informing development of a Business Plan. The research will also draw upon best practice from elsewhere in the UK by researching five case studies of social prescribing activities that are considered to be successful models and use them to design a suitable Suffolk model.
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| Developing Income Streams | ||
| Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
| Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
| Understand Role of Technology | ||
| Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
| Communications to Disseminate Learning | ||
Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality
Suffolk Law Centre
Grant: £32,000
April 6, 2017
The aim is to develop a Centre that provides legal services in housing, asylum and public law and advice and assistance in areas of discrimination and employment law. The Centre will continue to work closely with both local solicitors and law students to host pro bono services that add value to what the Centre does and that helps develop the next generation of social welfare and asylum lawyers.
The aim is to tender for a contract to deliver Legal Aid services and then to provide those services in a way that reaches out across a geographically dispersed and diverse set of communities (through significant outreach projects and through partnerships with local organisations).
The aim is also to build awareness of rights and to ensure that, as far as is possible, those in need of legal advice can find it locally and for free.
The current legal advice clinic services at ISCRE, along with their funding, will be transferred to the Law Centre allowing ISCRE to focus again on its core business.
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| People Working in the Law | ||
| Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
| Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
| Understand Role of Technology | ||
| Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
| Communications to Disseminate Learning | ||
