Race on The Agenda, Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) and The Runnymede Trust are working together to understand the communications capacity and needs of the race equality sector in London and to – hopefully – create more opportunities to collaborate on messaging on race equality. We’re keen to hear not only from BAMER groups,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On 1st June, Suman Fernando and ROTA presented an Institutional Racism and the Mental Health Act Review conference, hosted at University of East London. The event showcased ways of counteracting institutional racism in mental health services by promoting culture-change in professional practice and safeguarding human rights of people who use mental health services or are caught up…
More than a third of BMER workers in the UK have faced bullying, abuse and racial discrimination by employers, while BMER young people in particular are much more likely to be underemployed and to find themselves in precarious employment (such as zero hours contracts) subject to short-notice hour-reductions. These worrying facts together with the fast-rise…
We are deeply saddened by the loss of our former Board Member and Chairperson, Kamila Zahno. She joined the ROTA board in February 2005 – April 2010.
