What the census is, why it matters to everyone and how we can work together to spread the word within our communities.

What the census is all about, why it matters and how we can help spread the word in our council and communities.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
With the whole country and world waking up to the deeply entrenched structural equalities that have impacted the lives of our Black, Asian and other ethnic Minority communities, there is a collective appreciation that we need to go further to dismantle a system, and create new ones.
Local and national evidence shows that people from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background are disproportionately impacted by Covid-19.
In response to this, the council implemented this working group to carry out a rapid 6-week programme to gather evidence of the impacts of Covid-19 and develop actions for supporting our residents during this time and beyond.
Intensive work has been underway to understand and take action to address the direct and indirect health impacts of Covid-19 on our Black, Asian and other Ethnic Minority communities in Camden, and to ensure that individuals and communities are protected both now and through the next phase of the pandemic, but also to bring about wider systemic change.
This document is us working in the open with you and shows the information that was provided by different service areas to the member-led working group for comment and to develop actions going forward.
The Black, Asian and other Ethnic Minority Inequalities and Covid-19 Working Group has benefitted from evidence and the lived experience of our residents, VCS partners, professionals and Members in guiding and shaping the Council’s response from bureaucratic to relational.
In this document you will find summaries of the data included in these presentation slides and the relevant links to documents.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
Addressing the disproportionate impact of the pandemic is a shared endeavour and we want our residents, particularly our Black, Asian, and minority ethnic residents, to play an active role in our response.

This slide pack shows that we will support them to do so by:
• Using cross-channel communications tactics and reaching out to all Camden residents to make sure everyone is informed and given the opportunity to engage;
• Encouraging residents to share their lived experience of Covid-19 and help us garner the evidence we need to take action;
• Encouraging residents to work with us and our partners to shape and deliver the actions in our plan and act as a critical friend to make sure we stay true to our objectives and deliver the change we are promising.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
The shielded population are those that have been defined by Government on medical grounds as medically vulnerable due to a clinical condition that puts them at High risk of developing complications from COVID-19 infection.

Those recommended to shield include:
• Organ transplant recipients
• Pregnant women with congenital heart conditions
• Those with rare diseases such as homozygous sickle cell, SCID and others
• Those on immunosuppression therapies
• People with specific cancers or those with cancer undergoing chemo/radiotherapy.

Camden has so far received the contact details of almost 8,000 residents identified by central Government, with more records likely in future.

The details received do not contain the personal characteristics of those on the list, although we have received an overview from North Central London NHS.
(note: above is broken down into shielder’s location and BAME ward profile, shielding population by ethnicity, shielded food need and dietary requirements).

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
Section 1 (slides 1 – 3): The Public Health England (PHE) review confirms the risk of mortality as a result of covid-19 by ethnicity. Data on access to care and emergency response has been taken from our local VCS partner feedback and indications from local data.) Data on the care workforce by ethnicity was taken from our local data and the
Section 2 (Slides 4 – 7) covers demographic information on Black, Asian, and other or mixed ethnic people delivering direct care in the wider social care sector from the Skills for Care 2019 Social Care Workforce Review (note: factors that need to be considered are age, sex, underlying health conditions, ethnicity, and pregnancy.) Information on Camden’s ASC workforce was taken from GLA 2016-based Ethnic Group Projections - mid-2020). Demographic information on people receiving ASC support in Camden has been taken from our local service data.
Section 3: (slides 8-15) sets out information on Adult Social Care activity during Covid-19 and looks at data relative to ethnicity including the ASC cohort of Camden’s shielded residents. (Service held data NOT official statistics including qualitative feedback from communities)
Section 4: (Slides 16 – 18) shows information related to the Adult Social Care outcomes framework which has provided some information gathered before Covid-19 on the experiences of people who are BAME and in receipt of social care support in Camden.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
This slide pack covers lived experience of Black, Asian and other or mixed ethnic (BAME) communities regarding the issues they have been facing around overcrowding as a result of covid-19 from Early Help services and VCS.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
Camden Demographics of Shielded Population by location age ethnicity deprivation gender GPs and reason for shielding.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
Further analyses of death registration data and 2011 census data .

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
This slide pack covers the latest PHE and ONS data, national and local, showing diagnosis and death rates by deprivation, underlying conditions and ethnicity (note: these analyses did not account for the effect of occupation, co-morbidities or obesity).