National Equality Panel Race Equality

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National Equality Panel - Race Equality

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• Two main aims
• Change the language and discourse of race in
  Britain
• Develop Equality through Economic Justice

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Employment Gap -

• 15 percentage points
• 1.3 points lower than the level in 1987
• 25/30 years to eliminate (NEP and National Audit
  report)
• Factors Human Capital, Geography, Discrimination
  
• Not economically sound if it persists
• EM - 11 of the working age population
• 14 of the secondary school population
• 17 of the primary school population.

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Single Equalities Bill

• Procurement a lever for change in the private
  sector (NEP recommendations)
• Public sector spending about 200 billion in
  private sector which accounts for 80 of
  employment
• Equality in procurement should be at every stage
  of the process
• Kitemark no clout without a requirement on public
  sector to accept it.

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NEP recommends

• Government assesses, in 2012, whether the private
  sector has made enough progress in promoting race
  equality to support the goal of reducing the
  ethnic minority gap to twelve percentage points
  by 2015 reports its findings publicly and, if
  it finds insufficient progress has been made,
  brings in legislation that obliges private sector
  employers to promote workplace race equality.

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Positive Action

• Problematic to say where candidates are equal 
  give it to the Black candidate/woman
• EU is very clear that equality means treating
  people in the same positions the same and
  treating people in different positions
  differently.

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Poverty and Crime

• Economic benefit of removing the underachievement
  of Black boys and young Black men could be 808
  million a year. 50 years without any change,
  would amount to approximately 24bn. REACH
  report
• 80 of Black African and Caribbean communities
  live in Neighbourhood Renewal Fund areas, those
  identified as Englands most deprived areas
  Young Black People in the Criminal Justice
  System

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Psychotic Illness

• The rate of psychotic illness related to
  socioeconomic position, with those who were in
  poorer economic positions appearing to have a
  higher risk.
• 6 among White group (7 for men and 5 for
  women), Black Caribbean (12), Pakistani (10),
  Indian (9) and Irish (8), and Bangladeshi (5)
  

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CRE Legacy Report 2007

• Children from ethnic minority groups make up 12
  of the total child population
• Rates of child poverty are particularly high
  among children of African (56), Pakistani (60)
  and Bangladeshi (72) origin, compared with a
  rate of 25 for white children.

Equality through Economics
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Rafael Behr Observer Sunday 15th June

• If government wants to change the status of
  minorities, it can choose between two policy
  menus, one cultural and one economic. The
  cultural one is assimilation setting a goal of a
  unified national identity and pushing people
  towards it, by shutting faith schools and banning
  public officials from wearing headscarves, for
  example.

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Rafael Behr Observer Sunday 15th June

• The economic one is redistribution addressing
  the problems of social mobility and poverty that
  actually cause tension between communities. Or it
  can go à la carte and try a bit of both. What it
  can't do is talk loosely about a policy of
  integration because, noble though it sounds, it
  doesn't actually mean anything.

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CID Agenda

• Citizenship
• Cohesion
• Immigration and Asylum.
• Internment
• Integration who has segregated who?
• Islamophobia
• ID cards
• DNA database
• Diversity
• Discourse

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CRE report Sept 2007

• Segregation residentially, socially and in the
  workplace is growing. Extremism, both political
  and religious, is on the rise as people become
  disillusioned and disconnected from each other.
  Issues of identity have a new prominence in our
  social landscape and have a profound impact upon
  race relations in Britain.

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Media
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Contribution

• Ethnic minority consumers by 2011 disposable
  incomes of 300 billion.
• Black and Asian consumers spend 44 more on
  clothing per month than White consumers.
• Black and Asian consumers are also estimated to
  earn up to 156 billion after tax income.
• Young men being the bigger consumers and
  spending 32 billion every year

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Active Inclusion

• Active Inclusion is defined by the Commission as
• A comprehensive policy mix combining three
  elements (i) a link to the labour market through
  job opportunities or vocational training
• (ii) income support at a level that is sufficient
  for people to have a dignified life
• (iii) better access to services that may help
  remove some of the hurdles encountered by some
  individuals and their families in entering
  mainstream society, thereby supporting their
  reinsertion into employment.

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Change the Discourse

• Challenge C words
• Cohesion, Citizenship
• Interrogate I words
• Integration, Islamophobia, institutional,
  internment, identity cards, immigration
• Deliberate D words
• DNA database
• Diversity,
• Discrimination

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TO

• Rely on our Rs
• Rights, responsibility, research, respect,
  records, restorative justice
• Encourage the use of E s
• Equality, employment, economic equity, evidence,
  efficiency, empowerment, enforcement and
  Equanomics