Informative and engaging articles from across the Race Equality Foundation, as well as external contributions.
Should Rishi Sunak be a care worker?
There is a danger in asking the Prime Minister ‘would you do the job of a care worker for £18,000 a year?’ Clearly the question is designed to see how he defends [...]
Sharing Lessons on dementia with Care Quality Commission
Earlier this month, the Race Equality Foundation were really pleased to be a part of, and host, an online webinar with over 170 Care Quality Commission colleagues exploring issues around dementia care. [...]
Race Equality Foundation response to the COVID-19 Inquiry questions
Race Equality Foundation responded to a set of questions put to ourselves and others regarding the pandemic and the lessons that can be learned from the UK's response to it. A brief [...]
Awaab Ishak: another avoidable tragedy
The shocking death of Awaab Ishak and the failure to take action by his social landlord, continues to raise significant concerns, with the Regulator for Social Housing, last week downgrading Rochdale Boroughwide [...]
COVID-19 Inquiry and Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock’s participation in I’m A Celebrity has generated endless publicity and commentary, a significant portion of it pointing to his supposed failings when he was Secretary of State for Health during [...]
Together Study recruitment hits target milestone
This month saw a key achievement for the Together Study as we completed the recruitment phase of our randomised control trial looking at the impact of the Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities Programme [...]
Health Equals: The UK’s Campaign for Improving Health Opportunities
Right now, in the UK, things such as poverty and poor living conditions are damaging health and wellbeing and cutting lives short. In response to this, The Race Equality Foundation worked with [...]
Tracey Bignall: Tackling high blood pressure in Black African and Caribbean communities
Tracey Bignall, Senior Policy & Practice Officer Everyone wants to have a good and healthy life. We want to protect our heart from the risk of disease and long term [...]
Trupti Patel: Joining the Race Equality Foundation
I’m so excited to be joining the Race Equality Foundation team as a Research Assistant. I completed a PhD in science and at the end decided to move away from working [...]
None of the Clocks Work
None of the Clocks Work – How young people, theatre and Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities have come together to create change The Race Equality Foundation’s Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) team [...]
Ethnic minority patients in secure mental health units
The journey to being a patient in a secure mental health unit is, by its nature, a traumatic one. By the time one gets admitted one has been assessed, prodded, and, [...]
Black Covid and in lockdown: In our own words
Between December 2020-June 2021, West Bromwich African Caribbean resource centre conducted community-based research to enable black African diaspora experiences of the Covid lockdown to be heard without qualification. This was funded [...]
Better support for BAME people living with Dementia
Race Equality Foundation has been awarded a grant by the Department of Health and Social Care to lead a programme with Black South West Network, Caribbean African Health Network and Friends [...]
Reflecting on racial justice in maternity services
The disparities in maternal outcomes for Black, Asian and minority ethnic women have been known for some time. For around 10 years, the MBRRACE confidential inquiry into maternal deaths regularly highlights [...]
Christie Garner: Joining the Race Equality Foundation
I’m thrilled to be joining the team as a Policy and Practice Officer. I’m already familiar with Race Equality Foundation through collaboration on my PhD research, looking at young people’s experiences [...]
Going international: Training practitioners from Bangladesh
Bernadette Rhoden, Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) lead trainer, worked with a group of practitioners last week who had flown to the UK from Bangladesh, with support from Eduprompt ( a [...]
Young Fathers in Prison – Getting Involved in Shaping New Research
I recently started as the Research Assistant on the Fathers Together study, where we want to understand the needs and experiences of young fathers in prison, particularly those who are from [...]
Reducing Parental Conflict
The Race Equality Foundation’s Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) team have been running a programme of work around family conflict and, in particular, conflict between those in parenting/caring roles. This has [...]
“Everybody in” changes so that those with No Recourse to Public Funding are back outside
Hastings and Eastbourne are linked towns within East Sussex affected, like most coastal communities, by ongoing concerns with street homelessness. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, local statutory and voluntary sector agencies were [...]
Free School Meals for those affected by No Recourse to Public Funds
The No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Action Group, facilitated by the migrants rights charity Praxis, campaigns to end No Recourse to Public Funds and is formed of people with lived [...]
How does the Government’s denial of institutional racism affect the way ethnic health inequalities will be addressed in this country?
The Government has recently presented to Parliament its response to the Sewell report. The Government’s response, titled Inclusive Britain, is an Action Plan with a set of measures linked to the [...]
Marking the second anniversary of lockdown: Jabeer Butt OBE
How to mark the second anniversary of the March 23 2020 Government announcement that the country would go into lockdown? Perhaps by remembering the many family, friends and colleagues who passed [...]
New SFSC Advance Skills Training in Parental Conflict
Exposure to frequent and poorly resolved conflict between parents is associated with a range of problems for children and young people. These can include sustained dangerous coping strategies, including the misuse [...]
The intersectionality of culture, nature and wellbeing of minoritised groups in the UK
My years of working in the environmental field and doing research among minoritised communities in the UK have brought some key issues to light. What has emerged from my research is [...]
Fathers Together: Supporting young fathers in prison
There are around 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales and recent estimates suggest that 54% are parents. Imprisonment affects the whole family, where having a father in prison increases the likelihood [...]
