Comments for Dudley Borough Interfaith Network

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Comment on Questions and Responses to the Minister by Steve

Steve — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:13:19 +0000

Thanks for the comments, and the several emails I’ve also had. I’e now compiled these and sent them of to the Minster. I’ll let you all know the results.

Cheers
Steve

Comment on Questions and Responses to the Minister by Janet Hilken

Janet Hilken — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:15:33 +0000

It is essential for community cohesion that newcomers to this country are able to learn English in order to communicate with their neighbours and feel part of the Big Society. If the Government want Integration – this is even more to the point. Why then is the Government making it more and more difficult for people to have English classes by charging them high prices to attend colleges and community facilities for ESOL classes?

Comment on Questions and Responses to the Minister by Lorna Prescott

Lorna Prescott — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:00:57 +0000

The Minister talked about big society being a framework which could help neighbourhoods which have fallen behind to catch up, and that the new community rights outlined in the Localism Bill would help this.

If we look at the three dimensions of power outlined by Steven Lukes, the new community rights and the big society as ‘an alternative to big government’ (David Cameron, Nov 2009) could be argued to be an attempt to redress power imbalances in the two dimensions of power which have been discussed by academics since the early twentieth century. I’d like to ask the Minister in what ways does he think the big society and some of the tools being developed under it address elements of the third dimension of power, how does the big society ‘framework’ tackle prejudice and discrimination which arise in part from the norms and ideologies in our culture and society?

Also during the Interfaith event there was much mention of dialogue, including by the Minister. I’d like to ask if the architects of the big society in any way see it as something which encourages dialogue to bring about social change, dialogue which directly opposes the monologue of the culture of the powerful. And if so, how does the government envisage resources being available to local areas and organisations who can facilitate such dialogue – supporting people to value their own skills, knowledge and experiences, identify shared experiences and common issues, develop an understanding of how the external work operates and knowing where to go to make change?

Many thanks
Lorna

Comment on Questions and Responses to the Minister by Andrew Wickens

Andrew Wickens — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:56:48 +0000

Questions/Comments for Andrew Stunell MP:
On interfaith dialogue; I think I was puzzled by hearing dialogue described as ‘inward looking’; to engage with people of different faith is precisely to be outward looking beyond our own communities. The face to face stuff goes on alongside the side by side. For the record, in Dudley I don’t think in recent years we’ve done very much interfaith dialogue as in learning about each other’s faiths – arguably we should do more! Instead the Network has brought people together to look at issues together – like homelessness or recession support. It prompts the question; how does the minister want to see local faith networks contributing to cohesion in society? We’ve got permission! What’s the steer? Or is it over to us to say?