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Black mental health matters: Time to eradicate long-standing ethnic inequalities in mental healthcare

Dawn Edge By Jamal Alston, Henna Lemetyinen and Dawn Edge Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: July 15, 2020

In 2018, ethnic inequalities in mental health treatment led the Royal College of Psychiatrists to endorse the position that mental healthcare in the UK is institutionally racist. In this blog, Jamal Alston, Dr Henna Lemetyinen, and Professor Dawn Edge explain how these inequalities present themselves, and use their research to outline new policies for mental […]

Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, BME, Health & Social Care, Health inequalities, inequalities, mental health, micra, NHS, NHS England, Racial Inequalities, racial inequality

Can British universities be sites for reparative justice?

By Karis Campion Filed Under: All posts, Education, Ethnicity, Growth and Inclusion Posted: October 15, 2018

This October is Black History Month, and despite some local councils’ attempts to dilute and replace it with ‘diversity’ agendas, the ongoing Windrush scandal has served as a stark reminder of some of the continued misunderstandings about Black history in Britain. Dr Karis Campion discusses the responsibility universities have in creating honest conversations on their […]

Tagged With: #bhm, abolition, Atlantic slave trade, Black history, Black History Month, BME, British history, colonial history, curriculum, education, ethnic, inequalities, justice, Racial Inequalities, racism, Slavery, students, university

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Increased diversity in Parliament: the case for centralising candidate nominations

Maria Sobolewska By Maria Sobolewska Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Ethnicity, Growth and Inclusion Posted: June 19, 2017

The general election earlier this month saw another record breaking increase in the ethnic diversity of Members of Parliament. Here, Maria Sobolewska looks at what lead to this increased diversity and lays out a path for further progress. The main difference between the 2015 and 2017 elections was how the candidates were selected The Representative […]

Tagged With: BME, candidate selection, diversity, election, ethnicity, GE2017, general election, MPs, parliament, parliamentary candidate, PPC, representation

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Britain’s ‘white working-class’: A divisive term for progressive policy or a necessary distinction?

By Daniel Evans Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Ethnicity, Growth and Inclusion Posted: March 21, 2017

In response to the Runneymede Trust and CLASS’s report on the white working-class released today, Daniel Evans considers whether this term helps or hinders progressive policies to help those it seeks to define. It would be wrong to privilege the ‘white working-class’ over BME working-class groups, given the levels of ethnic inequality Policy needs to […]

Tagged With: BME, Brexit, Centre for Labour and Social Studies, ethnicity, productivity, Runnymede Trust, white working-class, working class

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Employment targets for ethnic minorities will not reduce racial inequalities

By Omar Khan Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity, Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: June 19, 2015

Omar Khan, Director of the Runnymede Trust, assesses the prospects for ethnic minorities under the new Conservative Government. The Prime Minister David Cameron’s commitments during the 2015 campaign will continue rather than reduce racial inequalities in the labour market. His underwhelming targets suggest we need better evidence, proper legislative scrutiny and public debate to make democracy […]

Tagged With: BME, Conservative, David Cameron, Enoch Powell, equality, unemployment

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