Informative and engaging articles from across the Race Equality Foundation, as well as external contributions.
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 [...]
Farah Mgaieth: Joining the Race Equality Foundation
How my journey towards becoming a clinical psychologist in the future has led me to this great opportunity to join the Race Equality Foundation team as Research Assistant…. I have always [...]
How can we best support parents from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities?
Many of you will have been asked by us over the last few weeks to share information about and encourage Black, Asian and minority ethnic families you work with to take [...]
Five things I learnt about inclusive patient involvement and policy development from the Race Equality Foundation
Cardiovascular disease is a disease of inequality. Too often, things like where you live, your income, your background, your ethnicity, and your gender determine your chance of developing – and dying [...]
Working through grief: Eleni Bloy
The pain of losing a person we love is immense. The finality of death is absolute and unchangeable and our world becomes surreal and unfamiliar without our loved one. Emotionally, we [...]
Black and minority ethnic voluntary sector organisation are coping and adapting to the coronavirus pandemic for now, but their future is unsure
Black and minority ethnic voluntary and community organisations have been mobilising to support their communities during the coronavirus crisis. Many of them are doing this against a background of declining funding, [...]
Blog on the recently published LeDeR report
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Report detailed the gross inequalities faced by Black, Asian or minority ethnic people with learning disabilities. This blog on the recent report reflects on the evidence, and [...]
Dementia newsletter November 2020
The Dementia Programme has come to an end with the 21 projects providing a range of support, information, activities and advice to black, Asian and minority ethnic people living with dementia, [...]
Blogs on parenting during Covid-19
The SFSC team have been producing regular blog posts that have been published in our SFSC Covid 19 newsletter which is going out every other week during the period we are socially [...]
Why are more black and minority ethnic people dying from Covid-19 in hospital?
The startling ethnic differences in death rates in hospitals from Covid-19 identified recently highlight a familiar pattern of racial inequality. Whilst the government commitment to investigate the matter is welcome there [...]
The SFSC approach to Special Time
You may have seen the journalist and broadcaster Martin Daubney talking about special time on the Wright Showlast week as a result of his taking part in a Strengthening Families, Strengthening [...]
