Page 14 – Race on the Agenda

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Review of the Mental Health Act fails to put ‘Race’ on its Agenda for change, but acknowledges the reality of institutional racism in the mental health system
ByROTA 11 December 20188 November 2023
The report by Simon Wessely, former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, is headed ‘Modernising the Mental Health Act’ and subtitled ‘increasing choice, reducing compulsion’. There is nothing we can object to in this report except that it fails to recommend any legislative changes at all that would reduce institutional racism. And this is…
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December 2018 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
ByROTA 29 November 20188 November 2023
Read the latest December edition of our Policy E-Newsletter now available HERE. This is our quarterly newsletter full of information about our work, our partners/supporters and what is happening around the sector in relation to race equality. If you have something you would like to include and publicise in our next issue, scheduled for March 2019, please contact…
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Communicating about race equality
ByROTA 12 November 2018
Race on The Agenda, Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) and The Runnymede Trust are working together to understand the communications capacity and needs of the race equality sector in London and to – hopefully – create more opportunities to collaborate on messaging on race equality. We’re keen to hear not only from BAMER groups,…
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September 2018 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
ByROTA 5 September 2018
Read the latest September edition of our Policy E-Newsletter now available HERE. This is our quarterly newsletter full of information about our work and what is happening around the sector in relation to race equality. If you have something you would like to include and publicise in our next issue, scheduled for December 2018, please contact the…
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New evidence on informal exclusions
ByROTA 5 September 20188 November 2023
Since 2012 ROTA has been gathering evidence on informal school exclusions – and its various guises such ‘off rolling’ and ‘home schooling’ – to the detriment of pupils and their families who have experienced this. We also have evidence that young BAME pupils may be disproportionately affected. It comes as no surprise to ROTA that…
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Experiences of Ethnic Minorities in Cancer Care: Opportunity to share your voice
ByROTA 1 August 20188 November 2023
Patient surveys in England have shown that cancer patients from ethnic minority backgrounds tend to have different experiences to White British patients when receiving cancer care support. For example, some ethnic minority groups are less likely to report being treated with respect and dignity in hospital or receiving support from GPs and nurses. brap, an…
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Still not safe – fresh research into violence against women seeking asylum
ByROTA 25 July 2018
Women who have fled war and persecution in their home countries are not protected from abuse and violence here in the UK, in the country they thought would make them safe, finds ground-breaking new research published today by the Refugee Council and ASAP. ‘Women seeking asylum: Safe from violence in the UK?’ looks at how the asylum support…
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Submission on Mental Health Equality in North West London in Response to Clinical Commissioning Group drafting of 2018 Equality Objectives
ByROTA 24 July 20188 November 2023
This is an outline of the discussions and points raised at our alternative consultation event: “Hardly Hard to Reach: We Are Having Our Say” on 12 June 2018 as well as REAP’s Networking Conference: “Building New Lives: Refugees in West London” and outreach within our networks outside those events. The response was co-produced with people…
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Next steps in the Mental Health Equality Campaign
ByROTA 12 July 201821 July 2023
In follow up of our alternative consultation event ‘Hardly Hard to Reach: We Are Having Our Say’ feeding into North West London (NWL) Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)’s Equality Objectives [L1] and the Open Letter we sent to newly elected London Councillors to call for mental health equality for people from Black, Asian and Minority, Ethnic…
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Fundamentals of Counselling training gets accreditation from OCN
ByROTA 13 June 2018
Open College Network has this month given our training provided to refugee communities an accreditation at entry level 3. This training is provided by our Active Lives, Healthy Minds Project to our refugee community partners. The main objective of the project is to prevent admission to acute mental health services by providing community based mental health…
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