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Race Equality organisations write to the PM asking him to consider the racial disproportionality in the government’s response to COVID-19
ByROTA 20 April 20208 November 2023
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…
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Coronavirus update: ROTA office closed
ByROTA 12 April 2020
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…
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March 2020 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
ByROTA 21 February 20208 November 2023
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…
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Report arguing the case for refugee-led mental health services
ByROTA 11 February 20208 November 2023
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…
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Time to Shut Up! Racism, Royalty and the limitations of Britishness
ByROTA 22 January 20208 November 2023
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…
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September 2019 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
ByROTA 2 September 20198 November 2023
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…
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New Research: Mind the Gap: Choice, opportunity and access in Higher Education for UK-domiciled BAME students
ByROTA 30 August 20198 November 2023
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…
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The Coalition of Race Equality Organisations send an open letter to the Home Secretary “Priti Patel please don’t politicise the police”
ByROTA 23 August 20198 November 2023
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday 23 August 2019 The Coalition of Race Equality Organisations send an open letter to the Home Secretary “Priti Patel please don’t politicise the police” A coalition of 20 race equality organisations has sent an open letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel. The letter reads … “We the undersigned…
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ALHM End of Project Conference Report
ByROTA 26 June 2019
Through our partner organisations, the project worked with people from a refugee or migrant background. When it comes to addressing the mental health support needs, members of refugee communities often face three-fold challenges: Firstly, many refugees and migrants experienced adversity including loss, trauma in the country of origin and arduous journeys that have left their…
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How to genuinely consult refugee communities
ByROTA 10 June 20198 November 2023
NHS England is consulting community members and community-led organisations on their Long Term Plan. The Local Healthwatch in Hounslow has been commissioned to undertake consultations to hear from "disadvantaged groups" about their experiences with the NHS. Being consulted is not a new experience for our partner organisations on the Active Lives, Healthy Minds project, a…
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