4 minutes | Friday, 25 May 2018
People from West Yorkshire’s BME communities with mental health concerns feel ignored and struggle to find a voice, according to charity Touchstone.
The mental health charity recently ran two consultation events with BME service users as part of a national independent review of the Mental Health Act. Feedback from participants at the events in Leeds and Bradford suggested that some BME people also feel that racism is a key factor in determining how they are treated.
Arfan Hanif, Touchstone’s operations director, joined us to discuss the issue.