Honour George Floyd – Condemn the Sewell Report to the trash bin of history
Blog by CORE Chairperson: David Weaver – in Memory of George Floyd
CORE’s Statement in support of the Runnymede Trust
We, the members of the Coalition of Race Equality organisations (CORE) are saddened and dismayed, but not surprised, by the recent attacks on the Runnymede Trust. These attacks, which were continued from the floor of the House of Commons today, are concerted attempt to stifle the organisation’s attempts to do its work. Runnymede was set…
CORE responds to the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities
After a nine-month wait, the report into Racial Disparity in Britain has finally been published today. As many of us feared, the report is Government level gas lighting. Read CORE's full response HERE.
CORE’s position paper on the Low Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines within the BAME Communities
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been well documented that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups have been disproportionately impacted in terms of higher infection, hospitalisation and death rates. Read the Coalition of Race Equality Organisations’ (CORE) Position Paper on Low Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines within Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities HERE.
Mind Survey – Investing in mental health
Mental health charity, Mind have launched a survey to find out about how money worries impact our mental health. They want to hear from you by filling in their survey HERE. Money and mental health are often linked. If you have poor mental health it can make managing money harder and worrying about money can…
CORE writes to EHRC regards racial inequality in healthcare workplaces
CORE writes the Equality Human Rights Commission to respond to their inquiry into racial inequality in healthcare workplaces, and address a number of underlying factors which we believe are contributing to ethnic disparities within the sector.inquiry into racial inequality in healthcare workplaces. Read the full response letter HERE.
February 2021 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
Read the latest February 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 2021, please contact…
Three steps towards dismantling systemic racism
Guest blog by Dr Sanjiv Lingayah. After a tumultuous 2020, marked by the disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 on racially minoritised populations and the murder of George Floyd, we have been reminded how racism shows up in painful, sometimes deadly ways.
14 dead, nothing said – The New Cross Massacre 40 years on
If black lives didn’t seem to matter in 2020, they mattered even less four decades earlier. Forty years ago this weekend (Sunday 18 January 1981), a joyous 16th birthday party in a South London home, turned into a tragedy after 13 black youngsters were killed when the house became a deadly inferno. Friends Yvonne Ruddock…
Mind Survey – Support for your mental health by phone and online: does it work for you?
Since the pandemic, the NHS is giving a lot more of its support by telephone or online, rather than face-to-face, to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
