• Provide places of worship with more resources and support.
• Provide culturally sensitive activities in day care centres.
• Set up a support service staffed by those with appropriate cultural awareness.

What we are doing

We engage with people in places of worship, to assist with funding applications and other forms of support and assistance.

Integrated Day Services ensure that they meet the needs of service users from BAME backgrounds including the provision of culturally appropriate meals, however there are low numbers of BAME people participating in these services and referrals are low.

Aura provides domestic abuse services for North Lanarkshire. Aura is an inclusive support service for anyone over the age of 16 who is affected by domestic abuse.  Women from all ethnic backgrounds are referred to the service.

Aura have established relationships with Amina Muslim Women’s Resource Centre, Shakti Women’s Aid and Gryffe Women’s Aid who provide specialist support.

What we plan to do

We will map out places of worship to identify how engagement could be more targeted.

We will consider how places of worship could be used for planned engagement and consultation events (e.g. budget consultations).

We will explore how we can work with the Amina Muslim Women’s Resource Centre – Best of Men project. Amina work with an Islamic Scholar, who delivers workshops to Muslim men from a faith-based perspective.  

Encourage volunteers from culturally diverse backgrounds into Aura to support women from the Indian sub-continent to access the service.

"Domestic abuse I would say is very much hidden ... but it is very much there and there is no specific services here in Lanarkshire to provide the sort of cultural support as well."

"A lot of Asian women in Lanarkshire can only access services if men are ok with it."