Administrative Assistant
Scale 4 NJC points 18 – 21 (£17,161 – £19,126 pro rata)
18.5 hours per week worked on 3-5 days at the Head Office in Leeds
Temporary for 4 – 6 months

To provide general administrative support including assisting with producing monitoring reports and maintaining financial systems. The post also involves providing support to users of 24-hour reporting systems (telephone and electronic).

Closing date is 12 noon on 15th May 2012.
Interviews are to be held on 22nd May 2012 in Leeds.

For an informal discussion about the post, please phone:
Andrew Bolland, New Business Manager on 0113 2935100.

For an application pack please telephone 0113 293 5100 or
email una@stophateuk.org

Stop Hate UK is an Investors in People and Positive About Disabled People organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of race, gender, faith, disability, sexual orientation or age. All applicants should note that before appointment an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau application will be made.

“Module One of the judge led Leveson inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press following the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World, took evidence in Module One of the relationship between the press and the public. The list of core participants, many of whom gave oral evidence at the inquiry for this module read like a roll-call from British public life, including celebrities such as the singer Charlotte Church and the actor Hugh Grant, as well as more private individuals affected deeply by press intrusion, including the McCann family and Christopher Jefferies, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Joanna Yates, and later released without charge. A number of politicians and police officers also gave evidence.

The organisation Inclusion London, along with 10 disabled peoples’ organisations and individuals (including me and my friend and former colleague, the journalist John Pring), also submitted evidence to be considered in Module One – about the way in which the press writes about disabled people, particularly recently during the war on words regarding the reform of disability benefits. (The NUJ is also submitting evidence on this.)

We sat back and waited – hoping that at least one organisation would be called to give oral evidence about the effect that some inaccurate and unbalanced reporting of disability benefits was having on individual disabled people on the streets and in their homes. We were given to understand that it would either be dealt with in Module One or on Module Four on Regulation – or both. One organisation eventually contacted Leveson this week to see if there was any progress and was told that all our evidence had been considered – but was not considered important enough to deserve oral session. This is despite the evidence about the effect of such drip-feeding of lies, damn lies and statistics (a recent study has demonstrated that due to such reporting, the public now believes that between 50-75% of disability benefit claims are fraudulent, when the government’s own figures estimate it as less than 1%)

Why? Why is it not important when disabled individuals are attacked in the street, partly because of pernicious stories put about by newspapers? Why is wheelchair user Peter Greener’s experience of three months of harassment because his neighbour had once seen him walking and branded him a scrounger not important? I believe that journalists, including myself, have a responsibility to report accurately and, crucially, to contextualise. I believe that some journalists are over-hyping the extent of disability benefit fraud and are getting away with it while disabled people are paying the price.

I believe that Lord Justice Leveson, and his tax-payer funded inquiry, should do something about it. This inquiry should not merely hear the famous victims of newspaper harassment, or those who have become famous, unwillingly and in great pain, because of individual tragedy. This inquiry should also hear those silenced and fearful voices from a whole community which is trying to speak out – of the disabled victims who just make it into the local newspapers because they have been tipped out of their wheelchairs or shouted at in the street because of irresponsible newspaper reporting using the dangerous rhetoric of “scroungers” and other pernicious untruths. Leveson owes it to those individuals, who are not famous, who won’t necessarily make the headlines, but who deserve justice, to hear their stories – to honour their pain, and to question those reporters who are, at least, partly responsible.” Source: The Huffington Post, 27th April 2012.

Treat yourself to a relaxing night of delicious cuisine, entertainment and world music  with Stop Hate UK at the Headingley Heart Enterprise and Arts (HEART) Centre on the 18th May 2012. For the first time – we can offer a ‘Dinner and Drum Night’, an evening of enjoyment and merriment with African drumming  by The Abatimbo Burundi Drummers, an appetising hot buffet, and the chance to win exciting prizes in our raffle!

The food on offer includes a Thai green curry or mixed bean chilli, both of which will be served with deli salad.

Please join us for our memorable evening of socialising and merriment, we look forward to seeing you there!

Advance tickets only. For reservation or to inquire more information – please contact us on:

events@stophateuk.org.

or, telephone  0113 293 5100

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17th April – Brixton (http://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/brixton-17/)

24th April – Brick Lane (http://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/brick-lane-24/)

30th April – Soho (http://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/soho-30/)

The football tournament aims:
• to help people from the different refugee and BME groups to meet one another
• to help improve relationships between different refugee and BME groups
• to help improve relationships with the local people in Leeds
• to help give a positive image of people from refugee and BME groups

Can you assist with:
• Volunteering to organise event
• Volunteering to help on the day
• Entertainment on the day
• Catering
• Activities for children or women
• Refereeing
• Have a team who may be interested
• Have any ideas on how to make this event more successful

I would love to get as many diverse groups input as possible if you would like to be involved please contact me. (see details below)

Jean-Marie Ninziz
c/o Refugee Council, c/o Retas Leeds,
Hurley House, 233-237 Roundhay Road,
1 Dewsbury Road, Leeds,
Leeds, LS8 4HS.
LS11 5DQ.

jean.ninziza@refugeecouncil.org.uk       Chris@retasleeds.org.uk

Social landlords have a legal obligation to protect vulnerable tenants from disability-related hate crime. Emily Rogers finds out how they can recognise and stop abuse before it’s too late.

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/care/victims-of-hate/6521087.article

Source: www.insidehousing.co.uk

http://www.nus.org.uk/PageFiles/12238/2011_NUS_No_Place_for_Hate_Disability.pdf

Source: www.nus.org.uk

A first UK helpline for victims of Islamophobia is being set up amid concerns that incidents are not being reported or properly categorised.

Last year 2,000 hate crimes were recorded against different faiths in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Police say it is unclear how many were against Muslims as separate figures were not recorded.

Faith Matters, a non-profit group, hopes to show the scale of the problem and provide support for victims.

“Many people think that Islamophobic crime does not exist. They say: ‘Where is the data?’” said the director of Faith Matters, Fiyaz Mughal.

He is setting up the project Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks (MAMA) with the help of government funding.

“This is a chance for the Muslim community to say: ‘Let us present the case, in terms of the facts, let somebody collate it and present it to the authorities.’

“If someone has suffered abuse, been attacked or received a leaflet with inflammatory comments about Muslims in it, I want to hear about it.”

The police are required by the Home Office to record all hate crime – this includes crime on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender, disability and faith.

Anti-Islamic crime is currently grouped together with faith hate crimes against Christians, Hindus and Sikhs.

Anti-Semitic incidents are recorded separately and Faith Matters wants Islamophobic incidents to also be in their own category. According to their research, only 14 police forces out of 44 collate information about Islamophobic crime.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes have been recorded separately since 2006 in response to a request from the government following an inquiry into anti-Semitism, said a spokesperson for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo.)

“A significant challenge in identifying other hate crimes for other religious groups is that many victims consider the crimes to be racist. Given that Muslims originate from all ethnicities it would not be possible to identify such victims from within racist crime data.

“While we do not publish national data on anti-Muslim hate crimes, it is important to stress that all police forces maintain their local hate crime data.”

Fear of Islam and Muslims is on the increase, according to Dr Leon Moosavi, an academic based at Lancaster University who has studied Islamophobia. “It is a widespread problem in the UK,” he said. “More education is needed in schools, and Muslims need to also educate people about their faith.”

Media reports of anti-Muslim incidents are monitored by Islamophobia Watch, Engage and the Islamic Human Rights Commission, but none are able to offer a personal service to victims.

Source & more info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17063513

The food on offer includes a Thai green curry or mixed bean chilli, both of which will be served with salad.

So please join us for our memorable evening of socialising and merriment—we look forward to seeing you there!

Pre-sale of tickets only: for reservation or to inquire more information – please contact us on:

events@stophateuk.org

or, tel. 0113 293 5100

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