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Transforming Local Infrastructure Organisations – is it transforming and is it local? 15/05/2012
Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill University and ARVAC National Management Committee) writing in a personal capacity reflects upon the latest intervention from the centre : ” The Transforming Local Infrastructure initiatives is one of those centrally led ideas which appears to be a contradiction of what it says – is it transformative and is it […]
AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS – MORE OF THE SAME OR IS IT ABOUT TO GET WORSE? 15/05/2012
Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill Business School and a Management Committee member of ARVAC – writing in a personal capacity): ” The local election results in the England, Scotland and Wales at the start of the month appeared to confirm most of the predictions across the media – the Liberal Democrats lost (big time) – […]
WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS 01/05/2012
As the excitement (generated by the media) over who will win in London increases and the media / political pundits obsess over the relative scores that Cameron or Miliband have to reach in order to justify their claims that they are “winning” a much more significant story is unfolding below the radar. There are two […]
CUTTING PUBLIC SPENDING IS STILL THE COALITION’S PRIORITY NOT CUTTING TAX AVOIDERS 18/04/2012
There is a sense this past week when you have to blink to check that what you are reading is right. The headlines in the popular press have the Coalition in the UK (and the Conservative bit in particular) the champions of curbing tax avoiders. At the same time the last budget broadly favoured the […]
MAYORS, LOCALISM AND HAVING A VOICE: WHY THIS IS REALLY A MAKEOVER RATHR THAN A NEW START 12/04/2012
There will be a number of local referenda this May on whether we should (in some of the larger cities) opt for an elected mayor. In some places (including Liverpool) there will be elections for a directly elected mayor. This is the “big idea” to transform local politics. It was introduced by New Labour as […]

Stephen Lawrence 10 years after

Plymouth City Council – Report It

Disablist, faith and belief, homophobic, racist and transphobic incidents

We are committed to eliminating discrimination from all aspects of our work and to ensuring we contribute to making Plymouth a safer place for minority communities. If you have experienced or witnessed an incident we want to hear about it.

Incidents may include:

assault vandalism harassment [...]

Black Mental Health UK

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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 [...]

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.

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An atrocity by stealth

Moving Here

Moving Here explores, records and illustrates why people came to England over the last 200 years and what their experiences were and continue to be. It offers free access, for personal and educational use, to an online catalogue of versions of original material related to migration history from local, [...]

UK Equality & Human Rights Commission

The new commission is working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society.

The previous commissions – the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Commission for Racial Equality, and the Disability Rights Commission – have made enormous advances, changing [...]

Statewatch

Statewatch database monitors the state and civil liberties in the UK and Europe. The database contains over 21,000 entries with news, features, books, pamphlets, reports, EU resolutions and agreements.

For full contents see: Statewatch News online with analysis, documentation, news in brief and News Archives 2000-ongoing or What’s New: which lists all News Online and News [...]

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