The Runnymede Trust has long campaigned for the removal of Safer Schools Officers from UK schools, and so we support the Met’s recent announcement to do so. There is no credible or conclusive evidence ...

Welcome to our blog, Race Matters, where you can read the latest content on all matters to do with race. Race Matters aims to bring new perspectives to matters of racial (in)justice, including topics ...

We are deeply concerned that the Chancellor’s spring statement published yesterday, threatens to inflict and compound harm on some of the most under-protected people in our communities. This, ...

Two decades since Runnymede was first credited with coining the term 'Islamophobia' in our flagship 1997 report, we look at how the phenomenon has evolved over the past 20 years, and how it manifests ...

Proudly independent, for over 50 years Runnymede’s esteemed research, analysis and policy development has provided the evidence to challenge racial injustice. From broadening the curriculum to ...

The run-up to the 2024 general election will be riddled with political debate on immigration, based on racialised ideas of who is welcome and who belongs. When people are asked what matters to them ...

Art is one of the only subjects that explicitly offers a space for personal exploration, where students are encouraged to respond to the world and their place within it. Art lessons are therefore a ...

Shocking levels of economic and racial inequality in Britain are revealed in The Colour of Money. For example, Black African and Bangladeshi households have 10 times less wealth than White British ...

This paper explores the continued importance of teaching a diverse curriculum at a time when issues of racial and ethnic equality and diversity have been increasingly sidelined in the political ...

Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) fail to support a safer school environment, particularly for Black and ethnic minority children who are already over-policed and under-protected. Freedom of Information ...