This is an outline of the discussions and points raised at our alternative consultation event: “Hardly Hard to Reach: We...Read more
In follow up of our alternative consultation event ‘ Hardly Hard to Reach: We Are Having Our Say ’...Read more
ROTA's and Race Equality Foundation's submission to the Mental Health Act Review 2018. Following on from a wide consultation and our Institutional Racism and the Mental Health Act Review conference on 1st June 2018, hosted at University of East London. Read the submission HERE .
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Open College Network has this month given our training provided to refugee communities an accreditation at entry level 3. This...Read more
The somewhat violent demonstration in London this weekend in support of jailed right wing extremist Tommy Robinson was foreshadowed by figures released under three months ago by the Home Office.
The figures come from the highly controversial Prevent programme which most people see as a plan to catch young people being radicalised by so called Islamic State and Al Qaeda before they commit atrocities.
With very little publicity and dwarfed by Brexit Theresa May has committed herself to a major reform of the Mental Health Act. Last year she convened a meeting at Downing Street and appointed a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Sir Simon Wessely. to conduct a review.
Symbols are important. For some people, seeing Meghan Markle marry into the monarchy, while a Black preacher expounded the word and a Black Choir sang at the ceremony, was viewed as ushering in a new area of racialised harmony and black cultural acceptance at all levels of British society. If blackness is acceptable to the monarchy, then surely it can be embraced by everyone?
Since the disastrous fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, serious questions have been raised about whether social housing residents...Read more
We, the undersigned organisations are calling for an end to unequal provision and access to Mental Health services for Black, Asian and Minority, Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) communities. Research has shown that BAMER communities face disadvantage, reduced opportunities and structural and institutional racism (Kindred Minds, 2018: 3).Read more
