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Community Cohesion: Our Responsibility (NACAB and CRE, 2002)hot!
- 01.04.2006
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Community cohesion is currently high on the political agenda, in large part, because of the violent community disorders in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham in 2001. The official reports that followed these disturbances described fragmented and polarised communities lacking a strong sense of civic identity and social values. This briefing paper summarises some of the recent initiatives implemented to help build cohesive communities. In particular, it looks at what various stakeholders, including the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (NACAB) and the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), are doing to foster a multicultural society in which each person enjoys equal rights while also sharing the responsibility for strengthening communities.
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Community Cohesion: Report of the Independent Review Team (CCRT) chaired by Ted Cantlehot!
- 01.04.2006
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The Community Cohesion Review Team (CCRT) was set up following the 2001 urban riots to identify good practice, key policy issues and new and innovative thinking in the field of community cohesion. The Terms of Reference were specifically: ‘To obtain the views of local communities, including young people, local authorities, voluntary and faith organisations, in a number of representative multi-ethnic communities, on the issues that need to be addressed in developing confident, active communities and social cohesion. To identify good practice and to report this to the Ministerial Group, and also to identify weaknesses in the handling of these issues at local level.’
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Community Cohesion: Seven Steps. A Practitioner's Toolkit (ODPM)hot!
- 01.04.2006
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Community cohesion describes the ability of communities to function and grow in harmony together rather than in conflict. It has strong links to concepts of equality and diversity given that community cohesion can only grow when society as a whole recognises that individuals have the right to equality (of treatment, access to services etc) and respects and appreciates the diverse nature of our communities.
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Diversity and Cohesion through Theatre and E-Learning by Clive Billinghamhot!
- 20.04.2006
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This is a report on Leicester’s Pathfinder Community Cohesion Project. The government’s response to the Cantle Report recommended that the DfES select two or three education authorities to focus specifically on area wide strategies to address segregation, as Diversity Pathfinders. Leicester was chosen to be part of this project. The second (Youth Activities) strand of Leicester’s Pathfinder Programme aimed to ‘help to develop cross-cultural activities as a means of breaking down barriers between young people of different groups.’ Two of the objectives we set ourselves in Leicester were to: ‘increase understanding and respect between white and BME young people across the City’ and ‘increase appropriate skills of young people, parents and teachers and youth workers.’
We were fortunate to have had Mighty Zulu Nation (MZN), a South African theatre group, working with Leicester schools since October 2002. Prior to the current project with eight schools, they had performed, to great acclaim, in 45 schools of all kinds, largely funded from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF). The new Pathfinder Project sought to build on work that had already been done by MZN and use their dynamic and dramatic approach to performing arts to bring together pupils who were different in terms of their ethnicity and religion and who might not otherwise have ever encountered their peers from different backgrounds.
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End of Parallel Lives? The Report of the Community Cohesion Panelhot!
- 01.04.2006
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‘The community cohesion agenda has developed in response to disturbances in northern towns in 2001 and the recognition that cohesion is a national issue.Of course, the issues have not been cracked — barely a day goes by without some aspect of race and community relations moving into the spotlight. That is why I recently launched our consultation Strength in Diversity: Towards a community cohesion and race equality strategy. Recognising that much work has been done to develop the community cohesion agenda, and significant progress made in a number of areas, Strength in Diversity will map the way forward to consolidate and develop our community cohesion and race equality strategy’ (Fiona Mactaggart).
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