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This report brings together key learning from a number of significant tribunal cases and responses from 1,327 people who answered our survey relaying their experiences of raising allegations of racism within their respective organisations.

Survey findings showed:

• UK trained staff are much more likely than internationally trained staff to raise concerns. 71.0% of UK trained staff have highlighted race discrimination as an issue, compared with 53.1% of internationally trained staff.
• The most common reason for not raising a concern of race discrimination was not believing anything would change (75.7%). 63.5% of people who didn’t raise their concerns were worried about being seen as a troublemaker.
• Of those staff who have raised concerns, only 5.4% said they were taken seriously and that their problem was dealt with satisfactorily.
• The most common outcome to a race discrimination concern was nothing happening (the outcome in 42.7% of cases). In one in five (19.1%) instances, claims of race discrimination were treated the same as any other workplace dispute and referred to mediation. In 5.0% of cases, the individual raising the concern were themselves disciplined.
• 41.8% of respondents left their jobs as a result of their treatment.

To view the full report and recommendations, visit here.