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The headlines say one thing – cuts, inequality a lack of social justice and the Big Society advocates say another: what sense can we make of this ? 03/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on some of the headlines from the news this week: ” Looking through the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies released this week on the impact of the Coalition’s Budget and the increasing number of examples from the Voluntary and Community sector of [. […]
Looking for Absences – Social Justice and Equalities in the Big Society: what does this tell us? 03/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) points to continuing absences in the Coalition’s Big Society initiative: “I am struck by the notable absences in the Coalition’s Big Society project. There are, at least, two really central ones – for me- and they are any references to Social Justice and Equalities. […]
Summer Holidays, Stories and The Big Society: Why We Need More Than A Bucket And Spade 03/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reviews some recent stories from the national press on the Big Society: “Reading through the papers over the weekend the connections between the Big Society idea, the Coalition’s Budget and the emerging impact of the cuts became clearer. There are two articles which are w […]
Getting The Most Out Of The Equality Act 2010 03/09/2010
This is THE essential conference for equality law practitioners. The key note speech will be given by Mrs Justice Laura Cox. Major changes to the law will be presented by discrimination law experts. Karon Monaghan QC will discuss what is in and what’s out – new definitions and concepts – disability discrimination, gender re-assignment, combined […]
The Big Society, A Sense of History and why Local Politics Matter 03/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) returns to the question of a Sense of History: ” An interesting absentee in the Coalition’s claims for their Big Society is any reference to their own different histories and ways of relating to the localism debate. So, the Liberals do have a tradition and history […]

The Pariah Syndrome: An account of Gypsy slavery and persecution by Ian Hancock

Foreword by Dr. T.A. Acton Ian Hancock is a marginal man. Like all Romani intellectuals, he has had to live torn between the pariah status of his people and the embrace of a dominant culture which can hardly conceive of such a monster as an educated Gypsy. Some Gypsies in this position accept this, and [...]

United Nations Statement

A statement by Gay McDougall, United Nations Independent Expert on Minority issues, on UK National Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month emphasised the importance of the month when stating: “I warmly welcome today the beginning of the UK National Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month as a valuable example of how minorities’ contributions to society [...]

LECP Training

Training the Young People’s Workforce in 2010 the UN International Year of Youth On this site we will have: – A list of all training that we are publicising (our own and relevant others) – a discussion blog on training and related issues – last minute free or discounted training offers for those signed up [...]

Black Presence

The Black Presence website was formerly the Black Presence in Britain, history site about the contribution of African descended people in British history. The Black Presence in Britain website was set up in 1998 due to a lack of information about Black people in Britain to be found on the Internet. I was studying politics [...]

Black Mental Health UK

About us Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) was established in 2006 to raise awareness and address the stigma associated with mental illness. The aim of our work is to see a reduction in the inequalities in the treatment and care of people from African Caribbean communities who use mental health services, and to inform these [...]

The scandal of ‘criminalising’ mental health patients

Community and faith groups condemn the rapid rise in prisoner suicide rates Tuesday 2 January 2008 Human rights group Black Mental Health UK have added their voice to the growing numbers of community and faith organisation who have condemned the rapid rise in the numbers of suicides of people in prison over the last 12 [...]

The Destitution Trap

http://www.refugee-action.org.uk/campaigns/destitution/april09_mp_action.aspx Please take action now to end destitution of refused asylum seekers. -

An atrocity by stealth

Through my eyes

Alongside From War to Windrush, the Imperial War Museum is also launching a new online exhibition as part of the Their Past Your Future programme entitled Through My Eyes: Stories of Conflict, Belonging and Identity. The exhibition will illustrate the ways in which various twentieth century conflicts have made people rethink or reaffirm their [...]

From War to Windrush

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush in Britain in 1948, this exhibition will tell the personal stories of the involvement of Black men and women from the West Indies and Britain in the First and Second World Wars. http://london.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conEvent.2377 -

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