Alan Rudge

Download Birmingham’s ‘Independent’ Evaluation of its PVE Pathfinder for free

In my post last week about the ‘Independent’ evaluation of Birmingham’s PVE Pathfinder by Waterhouse Consulting Group, I wrote:

Lacking evidence, robustness, consistency and insight, I doubt whether the report – despite its pretensions to independence – will alleviate the criticisms that have already been posited at Birmingham City Council or answer the many questions that – unfortunately – continue to remain unanswered

If you don’t want to take my word for it, I can now exclusively offer the full and unadulterated ‘independent’ report for free.

Click here to download the ‘independent’ evaluation report for free

Just in case anybody is worried about this – or wants to threaten me (you know who you are…!!!) – I have written clearance from the Equalities Department of Birmingham City Council to share the report given that it is now ‘public’.

Download, disseminate and disagree.

‘Independent’ Evaluation of Birmingham’s PVE Pathfinder Published

Tonight at the Burlington Hotel in Birmingham around 70 people (including two children and four members of staff from Waterhouse Consulting Group) were presented with the findings from the ‘independent’ evaluation of Birmingham City Council’s Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) Pathfinder programme.

The evaluation report, despite focusing on Birmingham’s PVE Pathfinder was strangely emblazoned with images of the bombed out bus carcass from the 7/7 bombings (see right), a London tube station sign with the phrase ‘We are not afraid’ written across it, and a London Evening Standard poster pronouncing ‘Terrorists attack London – many dead’ (nothing like reinforcing the stereotypes that you’re trying to combat). I hasten to add that there were also images of the bull statue from the Bull Ring as well as the Selfridges building, so at least two from five images had some relevance to the second city. Even more incredibly, the powerpoint presentation by Waterhouse Consulting Group’s Waqar Azmi also had the 7/7 bus carcass image included on every slide.

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Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) in Birmingham

Further to the post on Muslim Birmingham about Islamophonic’s Riazat Butt’s visit to Nottingham and Birmingham to investigate the Government’s £86 million Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) programme, tonight marks the launch of Birmingham City Council’s evaluation of the Pathfinder Phase of the project (undertaken, I believe, by Waterhouse Consulting Group).

Hosted by Councillor Alan Rudge (Cabinet Member for Equalities & Human Resources) the event starts at 7:00pm at the Burlington Hotel, New Street, Birmingham. Alleged to be ‘celebrating’ the completion of the Pathfinder phase, the event will also provide details about the new three year programme that was recently agreed.