Welcome to the East Midlands Racial Equality Consortium (EMREC) online website.

We hope that you will be able to find all the information you require by browsing through our new website. Currently we are going through the initial stages of setting up our website for your assistance and for this reason we will be developing the website on a regular basis.

EMREC was set up in 2000 in response to the Commission for Racial Equality’s and the Home office strategic plans for regional development work and to extend the promotion of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights in to the local community networks through its partnership agencies. It was recognised that in the East Midlands region there was a significant lack of a collective opinion, voice and views which would assist the LGA, GOEM and other statutory organisations to keep abreast of new developments and their existing work commitments within areas of high concentration of poverty, social and economic depravation and cultural, racial and faith challenges.

The East Midlands Racial Equality Councils came together to pool their services, resources and expertise to assist the GOEM and other bodies to offer a unique service that was not available previously. As a consequence of this service the region has become richer and more fertile around subjects that have previously been difficult to identify, develop and address across the East Midlands through a collective opinion and strategic responses. The partnership agencies working across the East Midlands can collectively offer a valuable service and resource which will offer a professional and important contribution to the work of local, regional and central government on a wide range of equality issues.

Our aim is to target the six government strands of equalities as our focus for race equality and thereby promoting the development of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR).

We aim to engage faith in to the work of Race, Faith and Community Relations as an inclusive part of our work and enable this to lead the debate across the community cohesion agenda.

Our objective is to enable the 46 local authorities and other public authorities across the East Midlands to increase their awareness and skills in promoting the Public Duty across the work of the authority.