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Race Equality organisations write to Education Secretary demanding that the Dfe step in to ensure objectivity in grading, after exam cancellations
ByROTA 2 June 20208 November 2023
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday 1 June 2020 Race Equality organisations write to Education Secretary demanding that the Dfe step in to ensure objectivity in grading, after exam cancellations For the last month a number of race equality organisations and academic experts have been in contact with the Education Secretary expressing concerns about grading…
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Andy Gregg to retire as CEO of ROTA in August
ByROTA 22 May 20208 November 2023
After seven years as head of ROTA Andy Gregg has announced that he will be retiring at the end of August. Ali Ahmed, ROTA’s Chair during this period said “Regrettably I am sorry to announce Andy’s departure from ROTA. Andy continued to build our work on put race equality at the centre of the policy…
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Emergency Funding Opportunities
ByROTA 21 May 20208 November 2023
During this difficult time for many organisations, we have drawn up a list of funding opportunities. See HERE.
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CORE statement: Trevor Phillips’ involvement in the review to examine the disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths within BAME communities
ByROTA 7 May 2020
13 CORE members, and 4 non-CORE organisations wrote a statement that was sent to Public Health England, regarding Trevor Phillips’ prominent involvement, in the review examining the disproportionate number of BAME deaths resulting from COVID-19. Read the statement HERE. Read the reply received from Public Health England HERE.
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Consultation on exceptional arrangements for exam grading and assessment in 2020
ByROTA 30 April 20208 November 2023
The Government is consulting on the 'Exceptional arrangements for exam grading and assessment in 2020. ROTA is very concerned that the guidance does not adequately address the disproportionate impact the new arrangements may have on certain groups of BAME pupils, those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, and those who share other protected characteristics. The Coalition…
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Race Equality organisations write to the PM asking him to consider the racial disproportionality in the government’s response to COVID-19
ByROTA 20 April 20208 November 2023
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday 17 April 2020 Race Equality organisations write to the PM asking him to consider the racial disproportionality in the government’s response to COVID-19 A coalition of 21 race equality organisations (collectively known as CORE) have written to the Prime Minister expressing their concerns over the government’s response to…
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March 2020 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
ByROTA 21 February 20208 November 2023
Read the latest March edition of our Policy E-Newsletter now available HERE. This is our quarterly newsletter full of information about our work, our partners/supporters and what is happening around the sector in relation to race equality. If you have something you would like to include and publicise in our next issue, scheduled for May 2020, please contact…
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Report arguing the case for refugee-led mental health services
ByROTA 11 February 20208 November 2023
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2020 Hardly Hard to Reach: towards refugee-led service provision is the newly released report detailing findings from Race On The Agenda’s (ROTA) three-year Active Lives, Healthy Minds project. The project assisted partnership organisations and the community members they support in developing holistic, intersectional projects and activities to…
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Time to Shut Up! Racism, Royalty and the limitations of Britishness
ByROTA 22 January 20208 November 2023
Meghan’s Blackness has lost its sparkle even quicker than I originally envisioned when I wrote an initial comment piece shortly after the royal wedding. As I alluded to at the time and reiterate here, the sparkle of Meghan’s Blackness could not last because at its core Britain is an institutionally racist country. From time to time…
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ROTA AGM 2018/19 and “Tackling Informal Exclusions” Conference
ByROTA 20 January 202021 November 2023
On Monday 20th January 2020, ROTA held its Annual General Meeting for the financial year 2018/19 at Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA. Following our AGM, a special conference on "Tackling Informal Exclusions" saw over 70 people in attendance. Conference key note speakers included: Dan Rosenberg, Simpson Millar Solicitors – Dan is a Public Law Solicitor,…
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