Free Two Day Equality Act Training – 28 May and 1 June 2015 Free two day training for organisations supporting Black, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BME&R) communities. For more information and to book your place, visit http://www.rota.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=44&reset=1 Free Train the Trainer on the Equality Act 2010 – 8 June 2015 Free training for organisations that wish…
Clore Social develops leaders with a social purpose so they can transform the world around them. On 11 May 2015 they begin recruiting for the UK's top social talent, ready to appoint a new cohort outstanding leaders to the 2016 Clore Social Fellowship. The fully-funded Fellowship programme includes residential training, an individualised budget…
Read the latest blog 'Is “Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True“ Trevor Phillips' by Andy Gregg, ROTA Chief Executive. In his controversial and misguided programme “Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True“ Trevor Phillips argues that white people are so afraid of…… continue >>>
Deighton Pierce Glynn solicitors will be available to chat with you live on ROTA’s ‘Holding to Account on Equalities’ website once a week. Advice will be provided one to one on a first come first served basis. Each person will be given 10 minutes to chat to a solicitor about any PSED related issues they…
ROTA is working in partnership with Deighton Pierce & Glynn Solicitors to provide preliminary legal advice to voluntary and community sector organisations. This is aimed at holding public authorities to account using the PSED of the Equality Act 2010. For further information contact: poornima@rota.org.uk.
30th March and 1st April 2015 Participants must: Previously have attended the two day Equality Act training; Complete a quiz on the basic concepts and provisions within the Equality Act; Key objectives: Participants will: Discover key training techniques; Gain practical skills in communicating key concepts and provisions within the Equality Act; Learn to…
Training Day one: Complying with the Equality Act 2010 16th March 2015, 9.30am – 4.30pm Participants will: learn who is protected under the Equality Act 2010; learn what types of behaviour and discrimination are unlawful; review their own organisation’s policies and procedures and identify any changes needed in order to comply with the Equality Act…
British Future’s new report ‘How To Talk About Immigration‘ sets out the challenges for all sides when it comes to discussing and regaining trust on one of the most hotly contested issue in British politics. The pattern of falling trust, in politicians of every party, leads many to assume that the politics of immigration offer…
For many years, black and some other minority ethnic groups have been badly served by our mental health services. Some of the problems can be attributed to the fact that services have not adapted adequately to the fact that the understanding of what is ‘mental health’ and ‘mental illness’ is culturally determined and ‘one size…
Vidushi Marda, formally a ROTA volunteer in June 2014 interviewed participants of ROTA’S Healthy, Mobilised and BAME Project. Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) were introduced in England and Wales in 2008, following the Mental Health Act of 2007. They are a mechanism of offering people……continue >>>>
