Read the press release (PDF): Imkaan launches their “Neither Seen Nor Heard” campaign in response to the failings of the Mental Health Act 2025

The Government has now passed the Mental Health Act 2025. Despite longstanding evidence of racial disparities under the previous legislation, the new Act fails to take meaningful action to address the experiences of Black and minoritised victims and survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).

Imkaan’s work, including our recent Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy? report, has consistently highlighted how mental health systems continue to retraumatise Black and minoritised survivors of VAWG; and how those realities are too often erased in policy and care. Our recommendations, ranging from improved data collection to sustained funding for ‘by and for’ specialist services, have been repeatedly ignored.

In response, Imkaan is launching the Neither Seen Nor Heard campaign to expose the continued exclusion of Black and minoritised survivors from mental health policy, legislation, and practice, including through failures by Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) to meet their legal equality duties.

This campaign is about accountability, evidence, and lived experience; and about naming the consequences when government reform falls short.

—> Download the full press release, for Imkaan’s detailed response and next steps.