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- Communities and neighbourhoods
- Race, cohesion and faith
- Race and ethnicity
- Race equality advice
Communities and neighbourhoods
Race equality advice
We want to ensure that Communities and Local Government is getting the best advice on race equality issues. As a result we are moving away from standing advisory committees to a largely project based approach, in which groups with relevant perspectives, community links and expertise are brought together for a limited period of time to offer advice on a particular issue. This process involves practitioners, business leaders, professionals, opinion formers (including those with community links) and leading academics.
Four new project groups are already up and running. Each will run for a year initially, and each has ministerial engagement. Their focus areas are:
- increasing the trust and confidence between BME communities and the services;
- how to increase the number of BME staff at senior levels in public services - in particular police chief constable;
- racist incidents;
- raising the aspirations and achievement of black boys and young black men; read about the REACH group below.
