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Ethnicity
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What is Ethnicity?
This bit of the website is about making services better for people from black and minority ethnic communities.
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What does Valuing People say?
Valuing People came with an extra book about the extra problems for people from black and ethnic minority communities.
It was called 'Learning Difficulties and Ethnicity'.
Valuing People said that the services and support for people from black and ethnic minority communities often does not meet their needs.
All of Valuing People applies to people from black and ethnic minority communities the same as to everyone else with a learning disability.
t says that there are good things happening for people from black and ethnic minority communities across the country, but in lots of places things aren't good enough.
It says that services have to do what the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 says.
This means they have to make sure their services are giving people from black and ethnic minority communities good support, that means everyone's cultural needs.
It also says that there should be representation from people from black and minority ethnic communities on Partnership Boards.
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Links and Resources
Learning Difficulties and Ethnicity
This is the full version of this report.
Learning Difficulties and Ethnicity, Summary
This is the summary of the Learning Difficulties and Ethnicity report
Easy Read version of the Race Relations Amendment Act
BMESpark website
This brings together people who are interested in Supporting People and meeting the needs of people from black and ethnic minority communities.
Moving on up
Moving on up is a website for young people from ethnic minorities who want to find out about things they can do.
The National Learning Disibility and Ethnicity Network Website
This is a Lloyds TSB / Deparment of Health funded project to set up and run a good practice / information sharing network on all iniatives concerned with Leaning Disability and Ethnicity