Action for Race Equality
Empowering Young People who are Black, Asian and of Mixed Heritage
This Thursday, 29th May 2025, the Alliance for Police Accountability (APA), in collaboration with key civil society organisations, will host a pivotal full-day workshop at IBM London, aiming to co-develop a unified proposal for an Independent …
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The Alliance for Police Accountability (APA) is proud to announce the release of the Policing & the Black Child Conference 2024 Report. 🕒 Estimated read time: 3 minutes The report, derived from the discussions and insights shared at …
Action for Race Equality works collaboratively with Black, Asian and Mixed heritage-led organisations to strengthen the community and voluntary sector and improve outcomes across education, employment and criminal justice. As part of our drive, we're …
Continue Reading about An interview on Racism and Islamophobia with Maslaha
Our criminal legal system is entrenched in institutional racism but 'led-by and for' organisations provide communities with resilience against the discrimination they face. Rooted in shared lived experience, these organisations understand the …
Continue Reading about Healing Trauma: The Power of Community-Led Justice
Action for Race Equality works collaboratively with Black, Asian and Mixed heritage-led organisations to strengthen the community and voluntary sector and improve outcomes across education, employment and criminal justice. As part of our drive, we're …
Continue Reading about Championing criminal justice reform: interview with Mwanzo Project CIC
The Alliance for Police Accountability (APA) is a burgeoning project which is developing frameworks for Community Oriented Policing (COP). The project is centered around the British ideal of ‘Policing by Consent’, which, in theory, is driven by …
Continue Reading about Black communities, protests and policing in the USA and UK
On the evening of the 22nd August, twenty-seven community leaders, activists, and concerned citizens gathered to discuss the pressing issues of police accountability and the safety of Black children in England and Wales. The event, organised by …
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Labour has an opportunity to change the lives for Black, Asian, and Mixed Heritage people, but there is a lot of work to be done. On July 4th , Labour won the General Election by a landslide. In the lead up to the monumental win, a number of key …
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Ahead of the General Election on Thursday 4th of July, Action for Race Equality’s Youth Action Network called on the new Government to make their career opportunities a priority. There is a huge pool of talent among young people from Black, Asian …
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Action for Race Equality's statement on the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to not charge the officers in the Stephen Lawrence investigation. Action for Race Equality is deeply disappointed by the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to not …
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Action for Race Equality welcomes the news that the Metropolitan Police Service has scrapped it's Gangs Violence Matrix following years of campaigns against the racist nature of the tool. The Violence Harm Assessment (VHA), an already …
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The latest ethnicity in the Criminal Justice System statistics published yesterday (25th January) paint a clear picture of a system still struggling to tackle racism. The biennial publication from the Ministry of Justice, as well as the annually …
This morning the BBC published an investigation into the misuse of police body worn cameras, finding that these cameras have been turned off whilst police force is being used. Over 150 incidents of misuse were uncovered by the investigation, …
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ARE's Meka Beresford and Tara Shah reflect on the launch of the Alliance for Police Accountability, and the urgent and overdue need for deep policing reform to further race equality in the UK. It has been 24 years since the Metropolitan …
Action for Race Equality (ARE) is delighted to announce the launch of an important new body, the Alliance for Police Accountability (the APA), which aims to transform policing and promote a new public health approach to addressing serious violence, …
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