In the second week of November 2022, ESDEG organised a focus group at the Viking Community Centre, Northolt for ethnic minority parents of children with SEND needs. The purpose was to listen to the experiences of these parents in accessing services, obtaining...
This year London Challenge Poverty Week (17th to 23rd October) happened at the time when the country is in the grips of the worst cost of living crisis in the last forty years. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s UK Poverty profile (2022) over 14.5 million...
According to government figures, 418,000 secondary school places will be needed in England alone by 2027 in order to meet the 14.7% rise in pupil population. This growth in the school-age population has put extreme pressure on local authorities to find sufficient...
ESDEG has the vision to improve the lives of BMER communities by raising aspirations, through skills development and community cohesion. During the pandemic many peoples daily routine had drastically changed from living relatively active lives to living a more...
As part of the ‘Right to Thrive project’ we setup a group for socially isolated parents who have felt the impact of the pandemic on their social lives. At the beginning of this project many of them were hesitant to interact with the rest of the community....
