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NHS staff are being offered ‘Black Lives Matter courses’ as part of a new diversity awareness push, The Telegraph has reported. Documents seen by the national news outlet apparently outline plans to give England’s health and care staff access to courses on white privilege, unconscious bias, “authentic allyship” and the intersectionality between race and gender. One internal course, seen by The Telegraph, is on the “history, guiding principles and key messages” of the Black Lives Matter movement, including a link to an interview with its founders. According to The Telegraph, the NHS training explains: “BLM’s philosophy would encourage the NHS to critically evaluate its organisations and practices to address the systemic barriers which have retained and relegated BME nurses to the lower tiers of the nursing hierarchy for decades.” Read more ‘Still work to be done’ for HR to improve racial equality Another section of the course reportedly explains: “With fellow white people, honestly explore how racism privileges you and how racism injures BME [black and minority ethnic] people”. “To become authentic allies who will be in the struggle for the long haul, white people will need to deliberately and honestly work on understanding white culture and white privilege. […]
