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Met Police finally publishes buried racism report - weeks after our editor revealed it was being withheld Today’s publication comes after selected media were contacted by the Met Police with a notice of the force’s intention to publish the 126-page document

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A new report from the Health and Social Care Committee warns that Black women in England continue to face disproportionately poor outcomes in maternity care due to systemic failings in leadership, training, accountability, and data collection. Black women are 2.3 times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postnatal period compared with White women, and racism was repeatedly identified as a key driver of these disparities.

The Committee highlights that these failings occur in a broader maternity system already under strain, with the NHS paying £27.4 billion in negligence claims since 2019—more than its entire maternity budget for the same period.

Key recommendations include:

Making cultural competency training mandatory for all NHS maternity staff, shaped by the experiences of Black women.
Tackling the shortfall of over 2,500 midwives and ensuring tools are in place to monitor safe staffing levels.
Improving data collection, including a long-promised maternal morbidity indicator to better track disparities.
Restoring dedicated maternity funding, which has been cut from £95 million to £2 million, to avoid competition with other NHS priorities.

Acting Chair Paulette Hamilton MP stressed that leadership must be accountable and that addressing structural racism must be central to the government’s ongoing investigation into maternity services. She called this moment a potential turning point for improving maternal care and achieving equity for Black women.

BAME Labour welcomes this investigation.

Baroness Amos to spearhead maternity and neonatal Investigation Baroness Amos has been selected to lead the independent investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal care to drive urgent improvements to care and safety.

BAME Labour has written to the Labour Party Leader, General Secretary and BAME Labour NEC Representative requesting Diane Abbott MP to stand as candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington.

Vaughan Gething named as next Welsh First Minister! Wales' First Black Leader.

Huge congratulations to the First BLACK female Mayor in Lewisham. Lewisham Labour BAME Forum

Lewisham elects first black woman as its mayor Labour's Brenda Dacres makes history in a by-election in which she won more than 50% of votes.

Old news sometimes is good news. Please read and let us have your thoughts following the rule changes at Conference.

Labour criticised for “abandoning” agreed BAME and disabled structures – LabourList | Latest UK Labour Party news, analysis and comment Labour has been criticised for plans to break with a previously agreed commitment to establish democratic wings for members from a Black, Asian or other…