BME Participation Project
2007: The Challenge of True Dialogue in Education
7 July 2006
Kingston University
Kingston Hill Campus
Surrey, KT2 7LB
Organised by the Cross-Community Dialogue Action Group on Education (CCODAGE), with support of the 2007 Bicentenary Cross-Community Forum
Entry £5 per person
For further information and bookings see:
www.cewc.org/2007educationforum
The Asian Disabled Peoples’ Group and Female Carers.
Meets at the Sikh Community Centre every Tuesday in Leamington Spa and is supported by Naresh Jain from Council of Disabled People. more >>
Screen Rootz - West Midlands Digital Shorts Production Scheme
Screen Rootz is part of the national Bfi scheme, Black World - a major initiative from the British Film Institute celebrating black creativity in film, television and the moving image. Screen Rootz will produce up to 15 digital short films from aspiring, emerging and established black and Asian filmmakers. Selected applicants will have the benefit of professional mentoring throughout. more >>
Articles From Black Information Link
www.blink.org.uk
by Lester Holloway 5/2/2006
THE GOVERNMENT have been forced back to the drawing board on mental health following a torrent of criticism against a proposed law, which experts fear will lead to Black people being "locked up forever."
by Matilda MacAttram 1/12/2005
A GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED Advisory Group has criticised the Department of Health’s race review of the Mental Health Bill as inadequate, saying that it will do little to reduce the current discrimination faced by black patients.
The new government guidelines for the management of violent behaviour on mental health wards drawn up by National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) have been slammed as profoundly inadequate and an appalling response to the Bennett Inquiry
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Posted: 2/25/2005
HEALTH MINISTERS have been forced to put the breaks on a proposed mental health law after experts warned it could become a disaster amid fears of an explosion in black people detained and medicated.
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Posted: 10/25/2004
BLINK IS launching a lobbying campaign against the new Mental Health Bill which would give cops extra powers to medicate citizens without sectioning them
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Posted: 9/8/2004
MENTAL HEALTH experts are furious that government ministers plan to kick into touch hard-hitting recommendations of a public inquiry into the death of a black patient
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Posted: 7/21/2004
A MENTALLY ill patient who died after being restrained last month might still be alive today if government guidelines on restraint had been agreed, experts believe
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Posted: 6/22/2004
LEARNING DISABILITY SUMMIT TO FOCUS ON ETHNIC MINORITIES
Community Newswire - UK
... The workshops were organised after recent research highlighted many areas of country were struggling to provide appropriate learning disability services for...
Positive images of Black disabled children are vital
Children Now - London, UK
Double discrimination is the term commonly used to describe those who face prejudice by being Black and disabled. But there is a ...
Depression raises disability risk, especially among African ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Almost one in five depressed African American participants in the study developed a disability within two years of enrolling in the study compared with one in ...
More research needed on breast cancer in black women
blackbritain.co.uk
According to official statistics around 1 in 9 women in the UK contracts breast cancer, but while there is some information regarding Asian women, there is none relating to black women, a situation which many want to see changed.
Black Health Experts Criticise NHS Over Mis-Directed Campaigns
blackbritain.co.uk
Black health experts have said many of the Department of Health’s initiatives are still failing to tackle the basic problems blocking communication between the black communities and the health service.
The Black & Minority Ethnic Participation Project aims to work with individual people, BME organisations and white organisation to encourage the participation of BME Disabled People within the political, social, economic lives of our communities.
Participation includes any of the following:
- Asking for information on Disability Issues
- Attending or taking part in social events
- Taking part in training seminars
- Offering views on community matters
- Taking part in management committees
- Voluntary Work
- Taking part in forums and steering groups
BME Participation Project will:
- Establish a 'Race' and Disability Forum of Disability, Black and statutory organisations
- Work to ensure that BME Disabled People become part of a Disability Network
- Work with BME organisations across the sub-region to support them to gain a better understanding of disability issues and Discrimination
- Offer Advocacy to BME Disabled People
- Offer support to white organisations to ensure that culturally accessible services are offered
- Develop work around disabled refugees.
For further details contact:
BME Participation Worker
Telephone: 02476 716217
bme@cdp.org.uk
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