Mental Health Today

Racial disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic | MHT
Reported statistics show that BAME communities are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Here’s how two organisations are gathering the stories of those affected to inform policy, practice, and support options.

Will Boris Johnson’s new government | MHT
Patrick Vernon makes the case for a national health and wellbeing programme to confront the post-traumatic impact of the self-styled “hostile environment” policies imposed by government upon the Windrush Generation and their descendants.

BAME funding discussed at Downing Street | MHT
What is the Mental Health Act Review? How will it help BAME people? Black-led voluntary sector funding discussed at Downing Street.