John Grayson of South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group continues his exposés of conditions in Scotland, Ireland and other countries of Europe for asylum seekers in supposedly safe accommodation. Scotland: the Mears group and its £500m asylum housing contract In Scotland, as in the rest of the UK, the Home Office provision of asylum housing
Ofqual has conducted an online public consultation on the impact of Covid-19 grading of GCSE and A-Level results. We reprint below an edited version of a press statement issued by Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health UK (BLAM), an educational and advocacy not-for-profit [1] In late March, the Secretary of State for Education announced that the
Dear IRR News subscriber, The pandemic – and governments’ responses – may have changed the world as we know it, but it is also revealing what is already there – the inequality and structural racism that underpins society. On this week’s IRR News, Wayne Farah, who has had twenty years’ experience working with NHS Trusts,
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. We have incorporated the Covid-19 roundup of racism, health, policing and civil liberties into the calendar of racism and resistance, which we believe makes developments during this period clearer and easier to understand. HEALTH AND POLICY 10 April: As
As the government announces that NHS England and Public Health England will lead an inquiry into the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME communities, a Black health activist warns that the vague social construct of ‘race’ is being used to explain the mortality and morbidity of diverse populations, and more must be done to hold
In this wide-ranging and disturbing interview, Suresh Grover and Dorothea Jones[1] describe how a combination of Covid-19-linked racism, the ‘Blame China’ narrative and lockdown social distancing measures, are impacting on the caseload of The Monitoring Group; and reflect on the weak responses from the multiple agencies that should be assisting. Liz Fekete: The Guardian has
Dear IRR News subscriber, The consequences of Covid-19 are not indiscriminate. In addition to doctors and nurses, low paid members of the workforce – bus drivers, care-home workers, hospital staff, retail and delivery workers– are on the frontlines and are more likely to catch the disease as they are more exposed. The global pandemic, as
The pandemic is revealing the ways in which global health outcomes are shaped by race, class and indigeneity. As the pandemic spreads to every region of the world, and threatens Indigenous Peoples [1] who are now developing their own ‘self-determined protection mechanisms’[2] early signs suggest that the global war on Covid-19 is morphing into a war on
Below we publish a roundup of race and civil liberties issues related to coronavirus in the UK and Europe. See our regular calendar of racism and resistance here. INTERNATIONAL 31 March: The UN warns that the lack of capacity to deal with the consequences of a pandemic and a global recession would be catastrophic for
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe News stories related to coronavirus have been compiled in a separate calendar, view here. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION ASYLUM AND MIGRATION RIGHTS 25 March: In response to a Law Commission report published in January, which recommended the simplification of the ‘overly complex and
