Policy E-newsletters 2020-2021
Newsletter issue 67 – May 2020 Newsletter issue 68 – July 2020 Newsletter issue 69 – August 2020 Newsletter issue 70 – November 2020 Newsletter issue 71 – February 2021 Newsletter issue 72 – March 2021
ROTA (May 2020) COVID-19 and the issue of informal exclusion from school
Concerns have been raised about how the children of less well off families will be faring and how they will be home schooled during the Corona lockdown, but not enough thought has been given to the race dimension. Little consideration is given to those children who had been ‘advised’ by schools to learn at home…
ROTA (September 2019) Mind the Gap: Choice, opportunity and access to Higher Education for UK-domiciled BAME students
Mind the Gap: Choice, Opportunity and Access in Higher Education for UK-Domiciled BAME students. A commentary on the Augar Review. The Augar Review of Post-18 Education and Funding was published in May 2019. ROTA considered the Report in terms of how its recommendations may influence BAME students’ and prospective students’ decisions to apply to university…
Hardly Hard to Reach (June 2019): The Case for Refugee-Led Mental Health Services Summary and Recommendations
Active Lives, Healthy Minds is a three year (June 2016-2019) refugee-led mental health and wellbeing project in West London run by Race on the Agenda (ROTA) in partnership with Account Trust (Nepali community organisation), Network of Eritrean Women UK, Qoys Daryeel – Family Care (Somali community organisation), the Tamil Community Centre and Ilays. The project…
Active Lives, Healthy Minds – End of project report (June 2019) Hardly Hard to Reach Towards Refugee-Led Mental Health Provision
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…
Policy E-newsletters 2019-2020
Newsletter issue 62 – April 2019 Newsletter issue 63 – May 2019 Newsletter issue 64 – September 2019 Newsletter issue 65 – November 2019 Newsletter issue 66 – March 2020
ROTA and EHRC (March 2019) Following Grenfell: Grenfell residents’ access to public services and support
Race on the Agenda has carried out research, in partnership with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), to look at the human rights and equality dimensions of the Grenfell fire tragedy in June 2017. The purpose of the research has been to determine if the State is fulfilling its duties under human rights and equality law….
Responses in 2018 – 2019
Submission on Mental Health Equality in North West London in Response to Clinical Commissioning Group drafting of 2018 Equality Objectives (July 2018)
ROTA (November 2018) Brexit for BAME Britain: Investigating the impact
Findings from ROTA’s briefing with Rabia Mirza and Dr Irum Shehreen Ali finds the overall impact of Brexit on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities will be negative, both economically and for community relations if the government does not change track. Using the data and projections available we find that BAME communities are in…
Policy E-newsletters 2018-2019
Newsletter issue 61 – March 2019 Newsletter issue 60 – December 2018 Newsletter issue 59 – September 2018 Newsletter issue 58 – June 2018
