‘Extremely worrying’ new figures show school exclusions for Black Caribbean girls are rising again
Press Release: September 2008
ROTA joins forces with Channel 5 News to investigate racism in Britain
Over 95% of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people in Britain have faced racism or racial prejudice…. Read more
Race Equality organisations write to Education Secretary demanding that the Dfe step in to ensure objectivity in grading, after exam cancellations
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday 1 June 2020 Race Equality organisations write to Education Secretary demanding that the Dfe step in to ensure objectivity in grading, after exam cancellations For the last month a number of race equality organisations and academic experts have been in contact with the Education Secretary expressing concerns about grading…
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…
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…
The Coalition of Race Equality Organisations send an open letter to the Home Secretary “Priti Patel please don’t politicise the police”
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…
Free Schools failing black and Asian children, new research shows
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday 24 September 2014 Free Schools failing black and Asian children, new research shows Free Schools were supposed to put power into the hands of local communities but they are failing children from Black, Asian and minority Ethnic communities (BAME) and increasing inequality, according to a new report. Building…
Free Schools failing to demonstrate they are advancing racial equality, new report finds
NASUWT PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday 15 September 2014 Free Schools failing to demonstrate they are advancing racial equality, new report finds The Coalition Government’s free schools programme, contrary to its stated aims to address educational disadvantage and attainment gaps, is failing to do so, concludes a report commissioned by the NASUWT, the largest…
Free schools failing on equalities, new research shows
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday 7 November 2013 Free schools failing on equalities, new research shows Race on the Agenda (ROTA) has published new research that shows that free schools are failing to comply with statutory requirements on equality. The research appears soon after the recent Ofsted inspection of the Al-Madinah free school…
Open letter: Race Equality Duty
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 December 2012 In a response to Mrs Lawrence and Dr Richard Stone’s letter about the review of the Public Sector Equality Duty the Welsh Government clearly sets out their position. Read the response letter here. Ends.