Emergency Funding Opportunities
During this difficult time for many organisations, we have drawn up a list of funding opportunities. See HERE.
CORE statement: Trevor Phillips’ involvement in the review to examine the disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths within BAME communities
13 CORE members, and 4 non-CORE organisations wrote a statement that was sent to Public Health England, regarding Trevor Phillips’ prominent involvement, in the review examining the disproportionate number of BAME deaths resulting from COVID-19. Read the statement HERE. Read the reply received from Public Health England HERE.
Consultation on exceptional arrangements for exam grading and assessment in 2020
The Government is consulting on the 'Exceptional arrangements for exam grading and assessment in 2020. ROTA is very concerned that the guidance does not adequately address the disproportionate impact the new arrangements may have on certain groups of BAME pupils, those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, and those who share other protected characteristics. The Coalition…
Race Equality organisations write to the PM asking him to consider the racial disproportionality in the government’s response to COVID-19
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday 17 April 2020 Race Equality organisations write to the PM asking him to consider the racial disproportionality in the government’s response to COVID-19 A coalition of 21 race equality organisations (collectively known as CORE) have written to the Prime Minister expressing their concerns over the government’s response to…
Coronavirus update: ROTA office closed
The Race on the Agenda office currently is closed from today (1 April 2020) as a precaution to protect staff, visitors and our wider communities from the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. All staff are still working (from home) their normal hours and are available on their usual email addresses (staff's first name @rota.org.uk). Please…
March 2020 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
Read the latest March 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 May 2020, please contact…
Report arguing the case for refugee-led mental health services
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2020 Hardly Hard to Reach: towards refugee-led service provision is the newly released report detailing findings from Race On The Agenda’s (ROTA) three-year Active Lives, Healthy Minds project. The project assisted partnership organisations and the community members they support in developing holistic, intersectional projects and activities to…
Time to Shut Up! Racism, Royalty and the limitations of Britishness
Meghan’s Blackness has lost its sparkle even quicker than I originally envisioned when I wrote an initial comment piece shortly after the royal wedding. As I alluded to at the time and reiterate here, the sparkle of Meghan’s Blackness could not last because at its core Britain is an institutionally racist country. From time to time…
September 2019 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
Read the latest September 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 November 2019, please contact…
New Research: Mind the Gap: Choice, opportunity and access in Higher Education for UK-domiciled BAME students
Since 2018, ROTA has been researching student choice and disadvantage in Higher Education with reference to UK domiciled BAME students. In May 2019, the Augar Review of Higher Education was published. ROTA’s full report, containing a Commentary on the Augar Review. In response to the Augar Review, ROTA is concerned that: Reducing the fee level…
