IPSWICH & SUFFOLK COUNCIL FOR RACIAL EQUALITY

Monday 23 August 2010

Letter to the EADT regarding misreporting of nationality and race

Sir

I have been following the reporting of the rail crash at Sudbury, and clearly it must have been traumatic for all involved. I am however deeply concerned at the use of the lorry driver’s nationality to describe him. Before any investigation had taken place he has been negatively demonized. The reality is that the impact of this type of reporting feeds into a negative stereotype that pervades about ‘foreign drivers’, further exacerbated by political debates about migration and ‘British jobs for British workers’. The national news chose to describe him as from Cambridge- yet locally and indeed regionally his nationality is his most defining feature. Why is the ethnicity and nationality only reported on when it is other than White British and what relevance is it to the incident? This is racial discrimination at its worst.

MEDIA RELEASE

Wednesday 21 July 2010

SUFFOLK RACE EQUALITY LEAGUE TABLE: “PRISONS DO WELL, HEALTH BADLY, OVERALL NOT GOOD”

The Suffolk charity charged with promoting equality and fighting discrimination in the county has published its first ever race equality league tables showing which public bodies in the county are fulfilling their legal and moral duties – and which are failing to do so.

The Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) has evaluated 21 public sector organisations in the local government, health, education and policing/prison sectors and has scored them against four criteria with marks out of three for each. (Click here to download copies of the league table)

Friday 2 July 2010

Wednesday 14 July 2010

SUFFOLK FIGHT BACK AGAINST EDUCATIONAL UNDERPERFORMANCE BEGINS NOW!

The Suffolk charity charged with promoting equality and fighting discrimination in the county is launching a scheme aimed at improving the educational prospect of local African Caribbean pupils – and is urging parents to sign up their sons now!

The Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) has launched its first Leadership Academy which will run for six days in August at both Suffolk New College and the Murrayside Community Centre in Ipswich. Up to 20 places for African Caribbean children aged eight and over in school years 4 and 5 are available, although nine have already been taken after an initial meeting last week about the Academy held at Whitton Primary School.

Friday 2 July 2010

SUFFOLK EQUALITY GROUP TO POLICE: “TIME TO PUT FINE WORDS INTO BETTER ACTIONS”

The Suffolk charity charged with promoting equality and fighting discrimination in the county has challenged the police to start getting serious about beating the misuse of stop and search powers within its own ranks.

The Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) made the call at the latest of its innovative Stop and Search Reference Group meetings – held on Monday this week (June 28) – which brings together community groups, individuals and the police to discuss the disproportionately large numbers of black and minority ethnic (BME) residents stopped and searched (but not then charged) by the force.

TRAINEE LAWYERS GET CHANCE TO WORK ON REAL CASES

Thursday 17 June 2010 Paul Simon

Seven local law students – out of nearly 60 who applied – have been given the chance by the Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) to gain firsthand experience in a number of the real-life discrimination cases being handled by the charity.
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FIGHTING RURAL RACISM

Wednesday 23 June 2010 Eleanor Thomas (Morning Star)

At first glance, there is little to suggest that Suffolk might be a key front in the long campaign for equal rights in the UK.
Yet underneath the carefully scripted tourist-friendly narrative of the Aldeburgh Festival, horse-racing at Newmarket and genteel villages is a tale of a small and cash-strapped organisation battling against corporate indifference and changing the rulebook as to how such corporate denial is addressed.