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Forward to the past: can the UK black and minority ethnic third sector survive?
- Author:
- CRAIG Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Sector Review, 2(3), November 2011, pp.367-389.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This article explores the emergence of a black and minority ethnic (BME) third sector in the UK since the 1950’s. Based on published literature, it examines policy issues facing the sector as a whole. The article suggests that with the current economic crisis, together with the government’s approach to race, that, despite evidence of growing needs, the formerly rapid-growing BME communities have been left with a much weakened voice. In conclusion, the sector has been marginalised both in relation to welfare policy as a whole but also within the third sector more specifically. Sections include: politics and policy; BME organisational responses; current issues; and ‘forward to the past’.
Making the Big Society work for race equality
- Author:
- BUTLER Vicki
- Journal article citation:
- Runnymede Bulletin, 363, Autumn 2010, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Runnymede Trust
In the move towards greater decentralised services and the coalition government's big society agenda, it is important to ensure these initiatives do not lead to a reduced focus on black and minority ethnic people. The author explores how race equality can remain integral to the agenda.
Informed conversations with black and minority ethnic-led voluntary and community organisations on the health and social care changes
- Author:
- ROSENBERG Jenny
- Publisher:
- Race Equality Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Race Equality Foundation undertook a series of regional Informed Conversations between October 2010 and January 2011, attended by local voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations, service users and service providers. The informed conversations introduced and explained key health care changes, and sought to increase sector involvement in health care provision and gain a better understanding of need and existing VCS involvement in the different regions. The discussions varied in different locations according to local health issues, and participants’ experiences of and levels of engagement with health services. This report covers some of the key regional variations whilst also examining more general points of concern and consensus across the seminars. It provides an overview of the issues that came out of the conversations and details next steps and action points that are being undertaken as follow-up to this work by the Foundation.
School governors and race equality in 21st century schools
- Author:
- ROLLOCK Nicola
- Publisher:
- Runnymede Trust
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 13p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Runnymede Trust Briefing Paper examines the evidence on school governors, race equality and community cohesion and considers what needs to be done to ensure that race equality remains central to school governance in the future. The authors comment that governors need to understand the types of questions they can ask to ensure that race equality and cohesion are being met both by the school and as part of the governing body’s internal practice. Such questions could form part of an annual internal governor audit. Engagement and understanding of these issues should be the domain of all governors and not just those with a specific interest or from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Information pertaining to ethnicity, age group and gender of school governors should be collated. Representation should mirror the profile of the school’s pupil population.
The impact of the race equality duty on council services
- Author:
- AUDIT SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Audit Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This study examined the impact of the race equality duty by asking three main questions: what is the impact of the duty on services, and on service users from minority ethnic communities?, what factors affect how councils manage race equality?, and do councils have effective arrangements for delivering on their race equality duty? 32 councils were surveyed, and good practice examples were sought and documentation reviewed. More detailed audit work was carried out at five councils where councillors and officers were interviewed. While councils have developed policies on race equality and have developed a range of initiatives, the duty has not yet had a significant impact on the delivery of services or on people from minority ethnic communities.
Experiences of a new rural REC
- Author:
- AHMED Basheer
- Journal article citation:
- Runnymede Bulletin, 342, June 2005, pp.9-11.
- Publisher:
- Runnymede Trust
Lincolnshire Racial Equality Council (LREC) is one of the newest Racial Equality Councils. The Chair of the Council explains what it took to get an REC established in rural Lincolnshire.
Race against time
- Author:
- MacATTRAM Matilda
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, April 2004, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Looks at responses to the National Institute for Menal Health in England's (NIMHE's) Delivering Race Equality programme.
Championing race equality in regeneration: local ownership in a regional agenda
- Authors:
- MATTHEW George, TOWRY-COKER Similola
- Publisher:
- Black Training and Enterprise Group
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at the impact so far of the government’s regional agenda on black and minority ethnic people living in urban areas. In five sections; policies and programmes; structures and processes; the black voluntary sector and a regional agenda; and recommendations.
No room for complacency
- Author:
- RICHARDSON Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 149, November 2000, p.15.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
The author, from Race on the Agenda, looks at the advantages and limitations of the forthcoming Race Relations Amendment Act.
Creating a virtuous society: immigration and Australia's policies of multiculturalism
- Author:
- BOROWSKI Allan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(3), July 2000, pp.459-475.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Australia's post-war programme of mass immigration has been accompanied by growing ethnic and racial diversity. Despite this diversification, Australia has been able to sustain itself as a peaceful liberal democracy. This article seeks to assemble some evidence from the Australian experience to 'test' the notion that the peacefulness of Australian society may, in some measure, be understood as a product of the contribution of its policies of multiculturalism to engendering and reinforcing those very virtues which liberal democracies require in order to sustain themselves over time.