Children’s Neighbourhoods Bridgeton and Dalmarnock

Context Report 2017

Nancy Clunie (Local Co-ordinator)

Lizzie Leman (Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellow)

1. Introduction

Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland is a new 5 year initiative beginning in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock. Children’s Neighbourhoods aims to raise attainment for children and young people in the neighbourhood by using a collective impact approach. As part of the initial planning process it is essential to gather available data to ensure a good level of understanding of the priorities, recent history, assets and aspirations for the neighbourhood. This context will contribute to the action planning process with our key stakeholders and community members.

2. Recent History

In late 2007 Glasgow was awarded Host City of the Commonwealth Games and Dalmarnock was to be the main development site. By 2014 the neighbourhood had been demolished and the new housing had been built in its place, ready to be used as the athlete’s village. As well as the new houses, Dalmarnock gained the Chris hoy velodrome, Emirates arena and the legacy hub.

Now, in 2017, the regeneration of Dalmarnock, led by Clyde Gateway is still underway. With planning permission approved for another 750 houses, a new primary school, nursery school as well as many new offices and houses also going up in Bridgeton.

The neighbourhood boasts a hard working network of services, schools and third sector organisations, all aiming to improve the area for those who live there. Recently partnership working has been driven forwards by the new Glasgow Council initiative ‘Thriving Places’ resulting in new programmes for children and families such as the homework club and the summer school at Dalmarnock Primary. The Scottish Children’s Neighbourhood hopes to help the dedicated workforce in the neighbourhood to have an even bigger impact by supporting more coherence to the work already being undertaken, helping the workforce to have an even bigger impact in the neighbourhood.

This report highlights the assets and resources in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock including organisations, programmes and initiatives already working in the area and hopes to add a valuable perspective to the action planning conversations.

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2. Clyde Gateway

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West of Scotland Housing Association

St Mungos Academy

Police Scotland

Dalmarnock Primary School and Greentrees nursery

Church HousePEEK

Olympia building: GCPH University of Glasgow Clyde Gateway Bridgeton Library

Sacred Heart Primary School

The Legacy Hub

Nursery GP Pharmacy

Baltic street adventure playground

Bridgeton Community

Learning Campus

Fig. 1 Local assets and resources Barrowfield Community Centre: Thriving Places PDC CHANGE community engagement worker

Job Centre Plusdue to close in…

Silverdale Nursery

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Fig 2. Access to A grade parks

Clyde Gateway

Established in 2007, the Clyde Gateway Urban Regeneration Company (URC) investment programme aims to deliver unparalleled social, economic and physical change to the area which extends from the east end of Glasgow to South Lanarkshire. The programme aims to attract 20000 jobs to the area from a wide range of industries and regenerating the communities of Bridgeton and Dalmarnock as well as others that make up the Clyde Gateway.

Table 1. Key Clyde Gateway Physical Developments that impact on children and families.

Development Year(s) Amount SecuredRoads and InfrastructureCuningar Park Bridge 2015-16 £4.6mCommunity Buildings / AssetsOlympia Building 2011 £8mEmirates Arena and Velodrome 2012 £113mCuningar Loop Forest Park 2013 £4.3mDalmarnock Legacy Hub (community owned) 2014 £2.8mChurch House (community owned) 2015-16 £0.8mHousingAthlete’s Village Housing 2011-2014 £230mThenue Housing, Bridgeton 2013-14 £7.1m

From 2012, Clyde Gateway URC has sought to make a greater contribution to, and impact on, the area’s children and young people in terms of improving their education and health and well-being.

Health and Well Being – supporting health and wellbeing through the delivery of the Jump 2 It programmes (delivered through Scottish Sports Futures and Glasgow Rocks basketball team)

Parental Engagement – supporting parental engagement and family learning activities to deliver projects that respond to needs identified by schools and parents

World of Work – supporting and developing partnerships with businesses and industry aimed at preparing pupils for the world of work in line with the Commission for developing Scotland’s Young Workforce

STEM – supporting STEM intervention programmes in schools, connecting with local employers

Widening Access – supporting schools to develop projects which focus on enterprise, world of work, STEM and parental engagement

In addition other education projects funded by and/or developed by Clyde Gateway URC include:

Marriott Hotel and Hospitality Academy for S4 and S5 pupils at risk of becoming NEET

Hospitality Explorers programme for P5 pupils

Business Enterprise day

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Changing Education Landscape

CHANGE (Childcare and Nurture, Glasgow East) project

CHANGE is a partnership project with Glasgow City Council, Children In Scotland and the Glasgow centre for Population and health, to look at what childcare is needed in the east end of Glasgow – including Bridgeton and Dalmarnock.

The three year project aims:

To create over 400 new registered childcare places

To support children and families

To improve outcomes for children and families

Nursery Provision

There are currently three local authority nurseries in the neighbourhood – Bridgeton Family Centre, Green Trees and Silverburn.

In 2007 a new nursery, London Road, opened as part of the new Dalmarnock Primary campus. In 2009 Queen Mary Street nursery closed, children were accommodated in London Road building. London Road Nursery later changed its name to Green Trees.

There is a Glasgow City Council partnership nursery based in the Legacy Hub. This opened in 2015.

A new build, Silverdale, was opened in August 2017. This replaces Elba Lane Nursery.

Primary Schools

Table 2. School Rolls, 2015

P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 TOTALDalmarnock Primary 71 70 62 48 50 45 42 388Sacred Heart 44 50 35 47 40 47 40 303

Table 3. School Rolls, 2017

P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 TOTALDalmarnock Primary 71 61 74 65 63 54 55 443Sacred Heart 60 43 46 53 34 49 41 326

Both primaries have seen a significant rise in numbers due to the increased housing provision within the area. Dalmarnock Primary had an extension built in order to accommodate the rise in numbers.

Due to the increase in the primary age population a new non-denominational primary school is currently being built in Dalmarnock. Plans are now available for the public and can be viewed at Silverdale Nursery, the Legacy Hub and Dalmarnock Primary. The school is due to open in August

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2019. The catchment area will cover the older houses in Dalmarnock as well as the Athlete’s Village.

Secondary Education

There are two secondary schools serving the area, Eastbank Academy and St Mungo’s Academy

Table 4. School Rolls, 2015

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 TOTALEastbank Academy 131 124 127 165 133 80 760St Mungo’s Academy 163 148 162 173 104 78 828

Table 5. School Rolls, 2017

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 TOTALEastbank Academy 178 149 132 125 108 91 783St Mungo’s Academy 174 175 158 154 140 100 901

Again, the increasing population of the area has impacted on schools

There are strong transition links for children moving from nursery to primary and from primary to secondary. All schools have strong links and offer extended transition for children who need extra support.

Schools also have rigorous procedures to support children and families through their Joint Support team meetings. These allow professionals from education, psychological services, health and social work to discuss and support individual cases.

Thriving Places: Parkhead, Dalmarnock and Camlachie

The Thriving Places approach was established in 2013 as part of the Single Outcome Agreement between Glasgow Community Planning partnership and the Scottish Government. It is a way of supporting and creating community projects that tackle specific areas of Glasgow identified as having consistent levels of inequality in terms of child poverty, health and employment. Public, private and voluntary organisations located and working in these neighbourhoods, along with the community itself, work together to make better use of resources already available. A local co-ordinator was appointed in 2014 to lead the work in Parkhead, Dalmarnock and Camlachie.

Business in the Community

Business in the Community Scotland tackles critical societal issues and drives change in workplaces and communities by unlocking the ambitions of business for a fairer society through programmes, events and research. The Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland team are currently developing relationships with businesses involved with the business in the community initiative. These include:

Greggs Price Waterhouse Cooper

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Virgin Money CMS Law firm DWF Law firm

Housing

Relationships are currently being developed with three housing providers in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock:

Thenue Molendinar Glasgow Housing Association

Statistics

In order to gain an understanding of the neighbourhood using statistics, we have used the Understanding Glasgow neighbourhood profiles1. However, the profiles available are split into:

Parkhead and Dalmarnock and Bridgeton and Calton

So although the profiles are useful for giving a view of the East End as well as comparisons with the West End, we do not have specific data for Bridgeton and Dalmarnock. Therefore it is useful to highlight some statistics which differ markedly from one another.

Table 6. Comparison of 7 Understanding Glasgow indicators

Indicator Parkhead and Dalmarnock

Diff. from Glasgow

Bridgeton and

Calton

Diff. from Glasgow

Population aged 0-24 32% 45.8%Under 16s living within 400m of green space

61% -23% 91% +15%

16-19 year old not in employment, education or training

65% +134% 22% -19%

Under 25s whose day-to-day activities are limited by disability

8% +38% 6% -3%

Lone parent households 61% +52% 51% +26%Victims of crime 39.4 per

100,000+87% 26.2 per

100,000+25%

Referrals to Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration

4% (63) +136% 2% (44) +11%

Offenders 38.5 per 100,000

+29% 26.9 per 100,000

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It is also important to highlight some of the statistics which may have changed, and currently have old data.

1 Glasgow Centre for Population Health. Understanding Glasgow [online]. Accessed Nov 1. http://www.understandingglasgow.com/assets/0003/4563/Calton_and_Bridgeton.pdf

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Table 7. Highlighting statistics which may have changed since data was last collected.

Indicator Parkhead and

Dalmarnock

Bridgeton and Calton

Reason for possible change

Under 16s living within 400m of green space

61% (2014) 91% (2014) Cuningar loop was opened in 2016; therefore Parkhead/Dalmarnock will have improved.

Under 25s from an ethnic minority

9% (2011) 16% (2011) The demography of Bridgeton and Dalmarnock has changed drastically, with Currently in Dalmarnock Primary, 36 languages are compared to 7 in 2010-2011. There are now large Chinese and polish populations seen throughout the neighbourhood

Lone parent households

51% (2011) 61% (2011) There have been many changes in housing with an increase in family homes and more two parent families are seen in primary school.

Overcrowded households with children

22% (2011) 25% (2011) Since 2011 there has been demolition of old tenements and building of new family sized housing.

S4 pupils achieving 5 or more qualifications at SCQF Level 5

18% (2012-2013)

24% (2012-2013)

These statistics improve year on year and so will be higher in 2017.

Table 8. Provision for children and young people

Table 9. Different sectors in the neighbourhood

Third Sector Private Sector/ BusinessPEEKChurch House

Conversations are underway to gather information on the businesses in the area. In the Clyde Gateway area there is roughly 1500 businesses registered.

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After school provision Summer provisionConnect 2 Summer club at Dalmarnock PrimaryRising stars Church House

Bridgeton Community Learning CentreLegacy Hub (PEEK)