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The Welsh Government firmly believes that the integration of refugees and asylum seekers should begin on day one of their arrival.
This is from the January 2019 Welsh refugee and asylum seeker plan (pdf).
The Traveller Movement have released a report from their 2018 conference, looking at the impact of institutional bias and discrimination on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities. The report notes that the institutional bias that exists across many aspects of public life, from governmental departments to law enforcement institutions, is what perpetuates negative stereotypes and …
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Mind is recruiting a communications assistant – Time to Change on a fixed term contract (31 March 2020 with a view to extend), in London. The deadline for applications is 26 February 2019.
The Ministry of Justice seek views to develop an evidence base which will inform revisions made to the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice. The deadline for responses is 7 March 2019.
The Office for Budget Responsibility have published their welfare trends report for 2019 (pdf), in January 2019.
This report focuses on disability benefits – payments that contribute to the extra costs associated with daily living and mobility for people with disabling conditions.
Just under half of LGBT people in Scotland have experienced depression in the last year, including seven in ten trans people. This is according to a January 2019 report from Stonewall Scotland on LGBT health in the country.
Fears of UK government policy highlight the ‘chilling effect’ of immigration policy on access to healthcare. This is according to a November 2018 report (pdf) from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on access to healthcare for those seeking asylum.
‘The Brexit vote came in part as an outcome of the aforementioned inequalities’, says the December 2018 report (pdf) from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) on Brexit and inequality.
The UK Statistics Authority published their recommendations on the content and conduct of the 2021 Census for England and Wales, as set out in the December 2018 white paper (pdf).
This includes the proposal that, for the first time, the census will be predominantly online.
‘In the 21st century, there is no excuse for racial discrimination. Yet black people in the EU today are still victims of widespread and unacceptable levels of discrimination and harassment simply because of their skin colour’.
This is according to the November 2018 report (pdf) from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which examines the experiences of nearly 6,000 black people in 12 European Union Member States.