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