BAME

Equalities watchdog warns exam bosses that BAME students will suffer from grading bias

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Equalities watchdog warns exam bosses that black and ethnic minority students will suffer from grading bias after Covid-19 halted GSCEs and A-levels GCSE and A-Level students will be awarded their grades by schools and colleges Equalities watchdog warn BAME and disabled pupils could suffer grading bias They accused Ofqual of not going far enough to … Read more

NHS warns hospitals to risk-assess BAME staff and take them off front-line because more vulnerable

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Black, Asian and Minority ethnic NHS staff could be taken off the front-line over concerns they are more vulnerable to coronavirus. New guidance sent from NHS England to hospitals nationwide asks that BAME staff are ‘risk-assessed’ on a ‘precautionary basis’.  Figures have shown 63 per cent of all health and social care workers who have … Read more

Trevor Phillips’ role in Covid-19 BAME inquiry criticised

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Muslim leaders criticise ‘insensitive’ decision to appoint Trevor Phillips on review into coronavirus’s impact on black and ethnic minority people after he was accused of Islamophobia 34.5 per cent of critically ill Covid-19 patients were from the BAME community Harun Khan from the Muslim Council of Britain said the decision was ‘insensitive’ Trevor Philips was suspended … Read more

Stephen Lawrence’s baroness mother with leading BAME review

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Sir Keir Starmer tasks Stephen Lawrence’s baroness mother with leading review into the impact of coronavirus on BAME communities Baroness Doreen Lawrence’s son was killed in a racist attack 27 years ago Research suggests 34.5 per cent of critically ill patients were BAME background This is despite 10.8 per cent of the population being black or … Read more

Britons from BAME communities ARE disproportionately likely to get coronavirus

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Britons from BAME communities ARE disproportionately likely to get coronavirus, official statistics show – but it remains unclear why NHS England found 16.2 per cent of Covid-19 victims from BAME communities  Groups ’35 per cent of all patients’ despite making up 13 per cent of population  Data emerged days after review launched to examine ‘disproportionate’ … Read more

British Medical Association chief calls for investigation into BAME coronavirus deaths

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The head of the British Medical Association has called on the government to investigate if and why black, Asian and minority ethnic people are more likely to die from coronavirus.  The first ten doctors to die in the UK from Covid-19 were all BAME – with ancestry from regions including Asia, the Middle East and … Read more