Creating a fairer Britain
The Commission aims to narrow the power, inclusion and integration gap and strengthen good relations by forging greater understanding between communities.
The Commission’s North East team commissioned a project to explore how disabled people and trans people, who had been victims of hate crime, could be empowered to improve criminal justice and community safety agency responses and the support provided to other victims of hate crime. Empowering people to tackle hate crime is a new guide that captures the project group’s learnings and makes recommendations to improve services provided to victims of hate crime.
New research from the Commission finds that for many disabled people in Britain, safety and security is a right frequently denied. Violence and hostility can be a daily experience – so much so that many disabled people begin to accept it as a part of everyday life.There is a critical need for a preventive strategy, 'nipping in the bud' such attitudes and behaviours before they escalate. We also need to address the wider geographical, social and economic factors identified in our research which can leave disabled people and others at greater risk.
Gypsy and Traveller communities are an integral part of 21st century Britain. Some committed, forward-looking local authorities have pioneered ways of meeting the needs of these nomadic groups to preserve their traditional lifestyle, while accessing health and education services and maintaining good relations with other communities. Read more about simple solutions for living together.
Walk Talk The Commission supported WALKTALK, a national initiative, which launched from Leeds on Saturday 19 July 2008 and finished in Central London on Sunday 17 August. It was conceived by Gill Hicks, a survivor of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, and her husband Joe Kerr, and co-developed with Zulfi Hussain of Global Promise, and the Together for Peace team in Leeds.
Calibrating Migration for a Global World, saw the Commission release a report that stated immigration has been largely beneficial to the UK’s economy and has had little, or no, negative impact on the labour market.