We speak up against racial inequality across the UK.
Find all the latest major announcements, breaking news, press releases and commentary from the Race Equality Foundation on issues relating to inequalities in health and social care, housing and other public services.
For more information about any press release, email comms@racefound.org.uk or call the Communications team on 07593 454182.
Press releases
Press Release: New employment rights legislation fails to address racial inequalities driving health crisis among Black and Asian workers, report reveals
New evidence review exposes how structural racism connects poor-quality work, inadequate sick pay and early workforce exit Black and Asian workers experience health of people decades older by their 40s and 50s [...]
Statement on the Interim Report into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England
Baroness Valerie Amos’ interim report into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England lays out evidence of long-standing and unacceptable inequalities. While its findings are deeply concerning, they reinforce what the Foundation [...]
How online SFSC courses support the Race Equality Foundation’s anti-racist mission
For 25 years, the SFSC team at the Race Equality Foundation has delivered its evidence-based and inclusive Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities parenting programme. The programme recognises that the communities around families can [...]
Why Stronger Families, Not Stricter Bans, Are the Key to Children’s Wellbeing
As calls grow to ban under-16s from accessing social media, the debate is increasingly shaped by a sense of moral panic, one that risks obscuring the deeper pressures facing children, young people, [...]
Statement on Women and Equalities Committee report: Discrimination, harassment and abuse against Muslim women
The Race Equality Foundation welcomes the publication of the Women and Equalities Committee report ‘Discrimination, harassment, and abuse against Muslim women’. The report provides powerful evidence of how Muslim women face a [...]
Warm homes won’t reduce inequality unless equity is built in
The government’s new Warm Homes Plan has been described as the biggest home upgrade programme in British history. At a time when millions of people are living in cold, damp and unsafe [...]
Protecting young people begins with rebuilding community, not banning platforms
This week, debates about young people and social media have flared up again in the UK, with renewed calls to ban access to platforms for under‑16s – following in the footsteps of [...]
Race Equality Foundation Responds to Government’s new Violence Against Women and Girls strategy
London, UK, 18 December 2025: As the Government today issued its new Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy, the Race Equality Foundation welcomes its recognition that VAWG is a national emergency [...]
How the NHS Can Break the ‘30-Year Cycle’ and Use Ethnicity Data to Tackle Health Inequalities Today
New research reveals how to break cycle of waiting for perfect ethnicity data to act and use imperfect data already collected to drive visible change 2 December 2025 – Communities from Black, [...]
Autumn Budget 2025 – Race Equality Foundation responds
26/11/2025, London In response to today’s Autumn Budget, Jabeer Butt OBE, writes: “The Government’s decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap in full from April 2026 is a welcome and long-overdue. The [...]
New Report centres experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Parents and Parents in Cases of Alleged Child Sexual Abuse in private law cases in the Family Courts
The Ministry of Justice has today published a research report authored by the Race Equality Foundation in partnership with We Stand (formerly known as Mosac). The report explores how the presumption of [...]
Co-produced recommendations for London addressing structural racism as a driver of health inequalities
The Race Equality Foundation has facilitated the co-development of recommendations to address structural racism in London. The recommendations were informed by the Institute of Health Equity evidence review on Structural Racism, [...]
Race Equality Foundation Response to the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan
“Promises must be matched by action to tackle racial injustice in health” The Race Equality Foundation welcomes the Government’s ambition to reshape healthcare around people’s lives through its new 10 Year Health [...]
Race Equality Foundation welcomes the Secretary of State’s commitment to tackling health inequalities – and the long-overdue review of the Carr-Hill formula
We welcome the Health and Social Care Secretary’s recognition that our health and care system is still failing too many – especially those from Black, Asian and other minoritised communities. His commitment [...]
New Fathers Together podcast shares voices of young fathers in prison – part of collaborative research with the Race Equality Foundation
Fathers Together is a six-part podcast series about young dads, imprisonment, and what it means to hold onto love, identity, and hope in the toughest of places. Launched on Father’s Day, 15th [...]
A letter to the Prime Minister urging government action on Racist, Xenophobic and Gender-based violence in Northern Ireland
In response to the violence in Ballymena and across Northern Ireland, Jabeer Butt, Chief Executive of the Race Equality Foundation, alongside racial justice leaders have written an open letter to the Prime Minister. Writing on [...]
Understanding the Racist Riots of 2024 and what should be done
UK at risk of further waves of racist rioting unless government acts, latest report by leading race equality charity argues. 27th May 2025 - ‘Understanding the Racist Riots of 2024 and what [...]
After the Racist Riots: Building an unapologetic anti-racist future
A young South Asian man is walking down a street in Hartlepool when, without warning, he is punched in the face. Onlookers cheer, laugh and yell racial slurs. “A Paki got [...]
A statement on the implications for social care of the immigration White Paper
The Government’s latest immigration announcement, particularly its proposal to end international recruitment into the social care sector, is deeply concerning, reflecting a profound failure to value care or the people who provide it. Previous visa [...]
Racism at the root: Tackling ethnic health inequities through racially-just data and policy with Professor Laia Bécares
Professor Laia Bécares on the importance of a racially-just approach to collecting, analysing, and interpreting ethnicity data. Ethnic health inequities are persistent in the UK. People from Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean, [...]
A critical assessment of census and survey data in ethnic group research: Insights from Dr Nigel de Noronha
The meanings of race in the UK have developed in different ways over time and space. From the scientific hierarchies used to justify slavery and exploitation, to the stigmatisation of groups [...]
Rethinking Data with Dr Brenda Hayanga: How methodological imagination can bridge data gaps to address ethnic health inequalities
There is a consensus in the literature that good quality data is a cornerstone for understanding and effectively addressing long-standing ethnic inequalities in health (Sheikh,et al., 2023), (Kapadia, et al., 2022). [...]
British Gas Energy Trust funds the Race Equality Foundation
The Race Equality Foundation has been awarded a grant by the British Gas Energy Trust (the Trust) to help raise awareness of the Trusts energy debt write-off grants amongst Black, Asian and [...]
Jabeer Butt OBE on the case for high-quality accessible ethnicity data
As the Race Equality Foundation, in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, launch their survey on gaps in ethnicity data, our CEO, Jabeer Butt OBE, reflects on the importance of ethnicity-disaggregated [...]
Supporting over 900 parents through the SFSC Stronger Relationships Programme
The SFSC team has been working hard sharing all the great work and learning from the last 18 months on reducing parental conflict through the SFSC Stronger Relationships Programme. In the last [...]
