A personal comment on the amendments to the Mental Health Bill and report on the BME mental health London conference, 12th May 2006 by Peter Ferns
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Did you know that Chinese people don't take milk in their tea and love to
eat jelly? Neither did I. But according to a manual on ‘cultural competence’
from one Health Authority, this is a vital fact that will enable practitioners
to provide a better service to Chinese people. I find it hard to accept such a
generalisation about 1.2 billion people but cultural stereotyping knows no
bounds. This is not the only surreal 'fact' I have come across in the search
for the 'Holy Grail' of a manual that imparts cultural knowledge to ‘totally
stumped’ practitioners. After all it stands to reason that the most skilled
practitioners will become gibbering wrecks if confronted by someone from a
different culture than them. No, hang on! There are lots of people who
constantly work across cultures with no special training, admittedly mainly
black workers.
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01/02/2009
The recent changes made to RECC materials for practitioners by DRE to produce an 'abbreviated' 12-hour version and the launch of their Training the Trainers (TTT) programme with the National Training Team represents a serious threat to the quality of RECC training and undermines the good work we have done so far. To see more on this debate visit the Social Perspectives Network on spn.org.uk
14/03/2009
This article is a further response to Melba Wilson, Director of DRE in relation to the revised version of RECC materials to a 12-hour version. This is part of the ongoing debate about RECC which can be followed more closely if you visit the Social Perpsectives Network wesbite on www.spn.org.uk
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