Prior to that he held a variety of senior positions in the private and public sector, including as a Senior Civil Servant at the Department for Education, as Director of UK Trade and Investment, The Philippines in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as Head of Public Sector at the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants. [...] A Portrait of Modern Britain: Ethnicity and Religion is the first report in this project and – like its predecessor of a decade ago – focuses on the lives, contributions and beliefs of ethnic minorities in the UK. [...] The riots revealed the fundamental lack of emphasis on social integration in mainstream British politics; the reluctance of the authorities to speak frankly and swiftly about incidents involving race, and to show that they are dealing with all races fairly and consistently - creating a vacuum which misinformation fills; the de-facto decriminalisation of certain offences due to the disappearance of. [...] As will be explained over the course of the report, the country has become more secular and irreligious, but also more religiously diverse – with the ethnically- diverse Muslim population being the fastest-growing sizeable religious group.4 While some ethnic groups have reduced as a proportion of the wider population (such as the white-British mainstream and the hyper- integrated Black Caribbean e. [...] While the number of people who belong to the Black Caribbean ethnic category has increased (from 595,000 to 623,000), its percentage of the overall population decreased from the 2011 to 2021 England & Wales Census (from 1.1% to 1.0%).14 Indeed, the number of Bangladeshi-heritage people registered in the 2021 edition was higher than the Black Caribbean-origin population (644,881 and 623,119 respect.
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Table of Contents
- A Portrait of Modern Britain 1
- Dr Rakib Ehsan and Iain Mansfield 1
- Foreword by Sir Trevor Phillips OBE 1
- A Portrait of Modern Britain 3
- Dr Rakib Ehsan and Iain Mansfield 3
- Foreword by Sir Trevor Phillips OBE 3
- About the Authors 4
- Endorsements 6
- Contents 8
- About A Portrait of Modern Britain 10
- Foreword 11
- Preface 14
- Executive Summary 17
- Summary of Recommendations 29
- 1. Introduction 32
- 1.1 What has changed since 2014 37
- 2. The Changing Portrait of Modern Britain 40
- 2.1. Ethnic Change 40
- 2.2 Accelerated Secularisation and Religious Diversification 44
- 2.3. The age profile of racial and ethnic minorities 46
- 2.4. Regional spread of ethnic minorities 48
- 2.5. Diversification of towns the rise of MINTs 51
- 2.6. Urban-rural spread of racial and ethnic minorities 55
- 3. Family and Children 57
- 3.1. Family Structure and Dynamics in Modern Britain 57
- 3.2. Fertility and Birth Rates 61
- 3.3 Trans Sex and Gender 63
- 4. Education 68
- 4.1. Level of School Attainment and Suspensions Exclusions 69
- 4.2 16-19 Attainment 74
- 4.3 University attendance and undergraduate results 75
- 5. Economy and Housing 77
- 5.1 General economic status 77
- 5.2 Type of Employment and Average Hourly Pay 79
- 5.3 Housing Tenure and Attitudes to Nimbyism 82
- 6. Health 85
- 6.1 Life expectancy 85
- 6.2 Self-reported health status in the 2021 Census 87
- 6.3 Self-reported happiness psychological well-being and general life satisfaction 89
- 7. Crime Protest and Immigration 90
- 7.1 Crime 90
- 7.2 Direct Action Protest 92
- 7.3 Immigration 93
- 8. Politics and Society 96
- 8.1 The 2010 EMBES 96
- 8.2 Perception of Equality and Opportunity In Modern Britain 98
- 8.3 Perceptions of 21st Century British Life 99
- 9. Race Class and Discrimination 101
- 9.1. Perceived barriers to progress in modern Britain 102
- 9.3 Social Relations and Experiences of Discrimination 106
- 10. Social Integration and British National Belonging 112
- 10.1. Integration Friends Work Neighbours and Worshippers 113
- 10.2 National Belonging and Attitudes towards British History 115
- 10.3 Pride in British Historic Achievements 118
- 11. A New Framework for Social Integration and National Belonging 121
- 11.1 The Relationship between Social Integration and National Belonging 121
- 11.2 The Economic and Educational Index EEI 124
- 12. Conclusion 128
- 13 Policy Recommendations 133
