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Key recommendations from existing Government reports into racial inequality.

We do not require yet another 'Commission' or 'Review' into inequality @BorisJohnson.

Implement the 200+ recommendations from the 7 reports you obtained in the last 3 years.

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Report contents:

Death in Police Custody: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/655401/Report_of_Angiolini_Review_ISBN_Accessible.pdf

Windrush review: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876336/6.5577_HO_Windrush_Lessons_Learned_Review_LoResFinal.pdf

Race in the workplace: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/594336/race-in-workplace-mcgregor-smith-review.pdf

Criminal Justice System: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643001/lammy-review-final-report.pdf

Race disparity audit: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/686071/Revised_RDA_report_March_2018.pdf

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Windrush Lessons Learned Review:

By Wendy Williams.

19 March 2020

Total recommendations: 30

PDF: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876336/6.5577_HO_Windrush_Lessons_Learned_Review_LoResFinal.pdf

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Key Recommendations:

[Summarised]

6. The Home Office should: a) devise, implement and review a comprehensive learning and development programme which makes sure all its existing and new staff learn about the history of the UK and its relationship with the rest of the world

6. (cont) ... including Britain’s colonial history, the history of inward and outward migration and the history of black Britons. This programme should be developed in partnership with academic experts in historical migration and should include the findings of this review,

6. (cont) ... and its ethnographic research, to understand the impact of the department’s decisions; b) publish an annual return confirming how many staff, managers and senior civil servants have completed the programme.

7. The Home Secretary should commission officials to undertake a full review and evaluation of the hostile/ compliant environment policy and measures – individually and cumulatively.

8. The Home Office should take steps to understand the groups and communities that its policies affect through improved engagement, social research, and by involving service users in designing its services.

9. The Home Secretary should introduce a Migrants’ Commissioner responsible for speaking up for migrants and those affected by the system directly or indirectly [and identifying any systemic concerns].

13. Ministers should ensure that all policies and proposals for legislation on immigration and nationality are subjected to rigorous impact assessments in line with Treasury guidelines.269 Officials should avoid putting forward options on the binary “do this or do nothing” basis

13 (cont)... but instead should consider a range of options. The assessments must always consider whether there is a risk of an adverse impact on racial groups who are legitimately in the country.

18. The Home Office should establish clearer guidance on the burden and standard of proof particularly for the information of applicants, indicating more clearly than previously how it operates and what the practical requirements are upon them for different application routes.

18. (cont) The decision-making framework should include guidelines on when the burden of proof lies on the applicant, what standard of proof applies, the parameters for using discretion and when to provide supervision or ask for a second opinion.

28. ... The department should revise its Inclusive by Instinct diversity and inclusion strategy to include its aspirations for senior-level BAME representation and a detailed plan for achieving them.

Race in the workplace.

By Baroness McGregor-Smith CBE

Total recommendations: 26

28 February 2017

PDF: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/594336/race-in-workplace-mcgregor-smith-review.pdf

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Key recommendations:

[Summarised]

1. Published, aspirational targets: Listed companies and all businesses and public bodies with more than 50 employees should publish five-year aspirational targets and report against these annually.

2. Publicly available data: Listed companies and all businesses with more than 50 employees should publish a breakdown of employees by race, ideally by pay band, on their website and in the annual report.

2. (cont)... All public bodies employing more than 50 people should publish a breakdown of employees by race, ideally by pay band, on http://Gov.uk  and include it in departmental reports.

3. Encourage employees to disclose: All employers should consider taking positive action18 to improve reporting rates amongst their workforce. This should include clearly explaining how supplying data will assist the company in increasing diversity overall.

4. Government legislation: Government should legislate to ensure that all listed companies and businesses employing more than 50 people publish workforce data broken down by race and pay band.

6. Mandatory unconscious bias training: All employers should ensure that staff at all levels of the organisation undertake unconscious bias training to address lingering behaviours and attitudes that act as a barrier to a more inclusive workplace.

7. Unconscious bias workshops for executives: Senior management teams, executive boards and those with a role in the recruitment process should go further and undertake more detailed training workshops.

24. A list of the top 100 BME employers in the UK: Business in the Community should establish a list of the top 100 BME employers, similar to the Stonewall approach for LGBT employers, to identify the best employers in terms of diversity.

25. Requests for diversity policies: Government to write to all institutional funds who have holdings in FTSE companies and ask them for their policies on diversity and inclusion and how they ensure as owners of companies that the representation of BME individuals is considered.

26. One year on review: Government should assess the extent to which the recommendations in this review have been implemented, and take necessary action where required.

Report of the Independent Review of Deaths and Serious Incidents in Police Custody.

By Rt. Hon. Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC

Total Recommendations: 110

6 January 2017

PDF: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/655401/Report_of_Angiolini_Review_ISBN_Accessible.pdf

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