We, the Board and Staff of Race on the Agenda (ROTA) note that the Impact Assessment of the Renters’ Rights Bill addresses rental discrimination against tenants receiving benefits or having children. The Bill rightly seeks to make it unlawful for landlords to discriminate on these grounds. However, it is crucial to emphasise that discrimination based…
While we support key government priorities such as equitable economic growth, clean energy, public safety, and healthcare reform, we emphasise the need for targeted action to address longstanding racial disparities across these areas. This includes protecting frontline services, addressing housing inequality, ensuring environmental justice, and promoting equitable reform in policing, education, and healthcare. Our recommendations…
ROTA is pleased to announce the appointment of Michaela Queensborough as the new Service Development Manager.
We are delighted to announce the launch of the first ROTA Community Research Partnership (RCRP), a groundbreaking initiative enabled through funding from Propel, aimed at advancing race equity through community based peer research.
In light of the recommendations made by the Oversight Group to the Church of England Commissioners concerning the Church’s response to historic links to slavery, we issue this joint response as leading anti-racism organisations.
The deeply Islamophobic comments from former Conservative ministers Lee Anderson and Suella Braverman over the past week are only the latest in a campaign of racist, hateful rhetoric from some British politicians. From Boris Johnson’s highly offensive comparison of Muslim women to ‘letterboxes’, to Suella Braverman’s likening of refugees in small boats to an ‘invasion’,…
Press Release: September 2008
ROTA is working with Agenda Alliance to raise awareness of suspensions and exclusions that disproportionately affect girls from Black Caribbean, Gypsy, Roma and Irish Traveller communities.
Housing inequality is a major issue in the UK, with Black and Global Majority communities disproportionately affected.
We’re proud to announce that we’ve been backed with Propel London funding under their Building Strong Communities mission.
