During the spring and early summer of 2001, there were a number of disturbances in towns and
cities in England involving large numbers of people from different cultural backgrounds and
which resulted in the destruction of property and attacks on the police. The Home
Secretary’s response was to set up a Ministerial Group on Public Order and Community Cohesion
to examine and consider how national policies might be used to promote better community
cohesion, based upon shared values and a celebration of diversity. At the same time, he also
established a Review Team, led by Ted Cantle, to seek the views of local residents and community
leaders in the affected towns and in other parts of England on the issues which need to be
addressed to bring about social cohesion and also to identify good practice in the handling of
these issues at local level.
This report of the Community Cohesion Review Team (CCRT) sets out what they found in the
places they visited and makes a number of recommendations for action which they consider will
improve community cohesion and help to address some of the factors which lay behind the
disturbances earlier in the year.
Authors
- Published in
- United Kingdom
