Black Mental Health UK: your news, policy and research resource on mental health and African Caribbean communities. We aim to reduce the inequalities in the treatment and care of people from African Caribbean communities and inform these communities on how to influence the strategic development, policy design and implementation of services.

 Findings in this report have exposed that the £16million committed to the Delivering Race Equality program set up to address discrimination in mental health services in 2005 had absolutely no impact in improving the ethnic inequalities in inpatient care.

The census is one of the three key building blocks of the UK Government's five year action plan, 'Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care'.

The Count Me In Census 2006 was a joint initiative by the Healthcare Commission, the Mental Health Act Commission and the National Institute for Mental Health in England.

The census was conducted in England and Wales on 31 March 2006 and gathered information on more than 32,000 inpatients in mental health services and more than 4,600 inpatients in learning disability services.  The first census in 2005 involved mental health services only; in 2006 the census also included the learning disability sector.