Useful Documents - Race
Count Me In - results of the 2006 national census of inpatients in mental health and learning disability services in England and Wales
"All patients should receive the same high level of healthcare, regardless of factors such as race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, and whether or not they have a disability. Government agencies need to coordinate effectively with voluntary agencies, minority ethic communities and those who use services in order to address variations in the way mental health and learning disability services are used and to allow for different patterns of mental illness.
This report aims to:
- obtain accurate figures relating to inpatients in mental health and learning disbaility services in England and Wales.
- encourage providers of health services to implement procedures for comprehensive recording and monitoring of data on the ethnic group of patients
- provide information to help health services move towards achieving the Government's five-year plan Delivering Race Equality in Mental health Care, which aims to improve mental health services for black and minority ethnic communities. The Race Equality Action Plan for Adult Mental Health Services in Wales provides similar information".
Find the report here Count Me In 2006.
Communities and Local Government
This document "The drivers of Black and Asian people's perceptions of racial discrimination by public services" is a qualitative study commissioned to understand why there had been no improvements between 2001 and 2005 and what can be done to improve perceptions of racial discrimination of public services. To read further please see: Race, Cohesion and Faiths Summary Jan 08
EHRC Report on Ethnicity and Family
This paper outlines the ethnic composition of families in Britain today using the Labour Force Survey household data. To understand patterns of diversity and the composition of the population now and potentially in the future, the bulk of the report explores patterns of inter-ethnic partnerships across the different ethnic groups. To read the full report please see: Ethnicity and Family Report
The Monitoring Group
This publication is entitled 'Hidden from public view?' and is about Racism towards the UK's Chinese population. This publication is available in English and Chinese. To read the full report in English please see: Hidden English and for the document in Chinese please see: Hidden Chinese
