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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hardly Hard to Reach: We Are Having Our Say – was the title of a major consultation event which took place on 12 June 2018 at CAIA’s Hayashen Centre. Attended by over 50 people to express their views on the development and updating of Equality Objectives (EO) and Equality Delivery System (EDS), a statutory obligation designed…
Kindred Minds – A Call for Social Justice' resources The manifesto is a unique resource, has been written by BME mental health service users and has a comprehensive vision for the policy and practice changes needed to improve the mental well-being of BME mental health service users. Manifesto executive summary: https://www.nsun.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=4f98b6f4-7b62-4366-a8b8-691415e7fa8e Manifesto full text: https://www.nsun.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=ee94e055-6a08-4925-8f27-427f16c43ca9…
