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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Books create belonging. They help us see each other, and understand one another. That's why every young person should have the chance to study books reflecting the racial diversity of UK society. This is how we want to contribute to that vision. #LitInColour (1/4)
We’re excited to join forces with @PenguinUKBooks to commission major new research, as well as the Black Writers’ Guild, @TeachFirst, @LiteracyTrust and partner schools. Change happens when we work together. We add our voices to a movement built over years, by many. (2/4)
Over the next few years our #LitinColour programme will support brilliant teachers making change on the ground to develop an inclusive #EnglishLit #curriculum and increase student access to books by writers of colour. penguin.co.uk/litincolour (3/4)
As publishers, we also have more to do to nurture and publish more writers of colours for readers of all ages. You can read more about our commitments and action plan here. penguin.co.uk/company/creati… (4 / 4)

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22 Oct
1. On Monday we published new research with @IPPR on ethnic disparities in Covid which found that 58,000 additional people would have died if white communities faced the same level of risk as Black communities

Here's a quick thread on how and why we made that calculation
2. In the House of Commons today Minister for Equalities @KemiBadenoch said that she does “not recognise those figures. Its methodology was not transparent, and our statisticians in the Cabinet Office could not understand where it got the numbers from”

We reject this conclusion
3.Our methodology is widely accepted in the academic community. To get to this statistic we applied the black population’s age and sex specific death rates from Covid-19 to the white population

The full methodology is explained in an addendum to the blog runnymedetrust.org/blog/ethnic-in…
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22 Oct
The new government report released today on #Covid19UK and #ethnicity does little to to *actually* help vulnerable BME communities and stem race still being a social determinant of health. In our report with @IPPR we found that:
- Underlying health conditions NOT important /1
- 58,000 extra deaths if white population faced same risk factors as black population i.e occupational and socio-economic
- Main factors unequal social conditions (i.e occupation and housing), unequal access to healthcare, and structural/ institutional racism that underpins them
The new government measures including the new Community Champions scheme to improve public health messaging, does not plug the gap in local authority funding faced by BME communities in this country and the tiny amount of money allocated to it is no where near enough /3
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19 Oct
🚨 A NEW report by the Runnymede Trust and @IPPR has shone a light on the disproportionate deaths for certain #BME communities relating to #COVID19 🚨 Following on will be a thread with some of the findings ⚠️ /1
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- Once again Covid-19 is running along racial lines.Despite the inequalities exposed earlier this year, there has been little effort to stop Covid-19 hitting minority ethnic communities hardest as we enter the second wave. /2
- Without urgent action, the effects of pandemic are set to be felt unequally again. Already the latest national infection rates are over four times higher in Pakistani communities than white communities. /3
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19 Oct
Conversations about the 'left-behind white working class' have made a return to the political scene in recent weeks. Below is a thread about Runnymede's recent work in this area and how pitting 'race' and class against one another serves nobody well /1
It is worth noting that this is not a race row and pitting children from different ethnic backgrounds against each other is highly damaging with regards to social cohesion, it ignores the large achievement gap among White British children from different socio-economic backgrounds
The current conception of the working class in the public debate is often based on a mixture of misinformation and mythology, fails to recognise working-class voices and agency, increases division across racial lines, and is divorced from the lived realities /2
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29 Oct 19
🗣️"How is it social housing if I can't survive on a teaching assistant salary?"

Today #ReclaimTheAgenda is highlighting #precariousness in working class & BME/migrant communities.

For example in our 78 research interviews most people were in work but struggled to make ends meet
Housing #precariousness is also a major worry, with many waiting indefinitely to secure decent living conditions.

On top of employment and housing insecurity, public service cuts and #austerity have eroded the safety net.

We Are Ghosts (2019) report 👉🏾 bit.ly/2NwBx4n
@CLASSthinktank Runnymede & @CLASSthinktank's report We Are Ghosts (2019) found that public sector workers are demoralised by severe cuts.

Often they have workplans and targets that fail to centre the dignity of service users.

#ReclaimTheAgenda

We Are Ghosts 👉🏾 bit.ly/2NwBx4n
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10 Jul 19
We're about to begin the event for Runnymede's & @CLASSthinktank report, 'We Are Ghosts - Race, Class and Institutional Prejudice' with speakers @faizashaheen @omaromalleykhan, @johnharris1969 @SamiaBadani and Laurie Mompelat

We're live-tweeting using #RaceAndClass
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It's created division, that we need to overcome and move the narrative forward

#RaceAndClass
Laurie Mompelat (@RunnymedeTrust and @CLASSthinktank) is presenting the report's findings

The research is a year-long case study of working class London, mainly North Kensington (#Grenfell)

There were 10 focus groups, with people from low income backgrounds
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