What we found out

The main findings of the report were:

There is very little information about learning disability and what this means which is accessible to people from black and minority ethnic communities

Many families from black and minority ethnic communities caring for someone with a learning disability are very isolated within their communities and often do not get support and understanding from their community

Some smaller communities within the black and minority ethnic population are particularly missing out on support, e.g. Chinese community, African community

Although organisations do make information and leaflets available in different community languages, often this does not reach people and they have been unclear about how to get the information to people who need it

Many stereotypes still exist about people from black and minority ethnic communities, especially about “people looking after their own” while this research found out this is not the case for many families

There are families in touch with services although it often took many years to get this to happen and once the contact was made it often led to other support and services being offered to the family.