Sentences with phrase «minority ethnic backgrounds»

We are making an effort to feature classical works rarely seen in contemporary museums as well as more works by women artists, by artists of minority ethnic backgrounds, and by international artists.

Rees revealed that he spent an evening with the civil rights campaigner Paul Stephenson, who organised the Bristol bus boycott in the 1960s that resulted incampaigners overturning a ban on people from minority ethnic backgrounds working on the city's buses.

People from poor or minority ethnic backgrounds often unthinkingly consider Labour their party but during my brief flirtation with the Labour party I found them arrogant, complacent and un-inclusive.

However, one inescapable — and deeply uncomfortable truth underlying these latest figures is that certain groups of pupils continue to more likely to be excluded than others: boys; pupils with SEN; pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals; and pupils from certain minority ethnic backgrounds.

Some people have alleged that young people have had to remain in care because «political correctness» has prevented children from minority ethnic backgrounds being adopted by white families.

And I think a lot of the vicars should open their eyes more to see potential in their congregation of those of minority ethnic backgrounds.»

More than 1 in 4 prisoners in the UK is from a minority ethnic background; however 87 % of Britain is white.

The independent watchdog has published a report which found more than half (56 per cent) of young people aged 17 - 24 are unregistered and 31 per cent of people with black or minority ethnic backgrounds are not on the register.

The majority of its students are from minority ethnic backgrounds and 80 % come from within a ten - mile radius of campuses in east and south London.

As a successful lawyer and the first politician from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background to be elected to the Labour Shadow Cabinet, Sadiq acknowledged Britain has changed for the better.

Labour's Lindsay Hoyle, the deputy speaker of the Commons, is also knighted along with Mark Hendrick, who has served as Labour MP for Preston for 17 years and was previously the first MEP from a minority ethnic background.

In addition to this, more than half of women teachers absent on maternity leave during the year who were eligible for progression had been turned down and those from minority ethnic backgrounds were shown to have been more likely to be denied progression than others.

Yet 30.4 per cent of primary students and 26.6 per cent of secondary students are from minority ethnic backgrounds.

For diversity and inclusion training, tell your learner about how an employee from a minority ethnic background felt ignored by their manager.

Teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds were more likely to have been denied progression than other teachers, and over half of women teachers absent on maternity leave during the year who were eligible for progression had been turned down, showing that many decisions are in clear contravention of equalities law.

The proportion of students from a minority ethnic background and those whose first language is not English are well above the national average.

«There never really seemed to be a change,» says one player in a new network aiming to provide support for UK publishing workers of black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Ashurst has the highest percentage of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) UK partners of the country's 10 largest law firms, according to new research, which also reveals that those firms have an average of just 7 % of UK partners from minority ethnic backgrounds.

Worryingly, he said, those from a BME background account for only 9 % of the total number of solicitors in private practice, while only 4 % of QCs are from a minority ethnic background.

Out of the 3,155 lawyers currently employed by the CPS 54.5 % are women and 15.1 % are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.

19 % of registrants are from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds — communities which are typically harder to reach in terms of offering mental health support.

However, it is clear that knowledge is lower amongst some groups including parents with lower educational qualifications, younger mothers, those from minority ethnic backgrounds, and those living in more deprived areas.