Mainstream social care services must be designed around the needs of black and minority ethnic service users, senior social services figures have been told.
Ratna Dutt, director of race equality agency REU, warned delegates at the National Institute for Social Work conference on quality in social care that black communities needed access to race-sensitive mainstream services as well as more focused specialist provision.
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